Brave Browser: Good or Bad?

gjuice

gjuice

I'd consider myself an anti-Chromium guy, but I've been using Brave since before I started caring about security or anything else.

What do you guys think about Brave?
 
it's decent function-wise, i've used it myself before and it was pretty solid
i've heard the guy behind the company itself was involved in some shady stuff tho', i think it was related to crypto/NFTs or something
 
honestly, the only thing i liked about brave was that it worked well on FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows 7. And the ad blocker was the best I've used. any suggestions on browsers?
 
yeah not sure how bad it's become now but back when i used it (2020-mid '21) you could just disable that crypto reward feature and move on
kinda sucks it's closed-source so we can't tell if it still does anything related even when that is disabled
 
Espionage724 said:
What reason is there to use Brave without the crypto rewards?
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can't tell, i don't really remember why i used it specifically ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT: i just remembered, i was using Firefox back then and a friend on Discord suggested me to use Brave instead because it had better performance and stuff
i think it was also trending back then a little so he was just following it, and so i ended up just getting used to it
 
rbranco said:
Bloated. I'm slowly migrating to Vivaldi to ditch both Google Chrome & Brave as I don't want "AI" in the browser.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser) makes it sound like Chromium with extras:

...Even though it is also Chromium-based, Vivaldi aims to revive the features of the Presto-based Opera with its own proprietary modifications.
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Main Firefox was finally sketchy-enough with AI right-click contexts for me to bother uninstalling main-default and going ESR on Linux. Only thing I need to toggle on ESR is browser.ml.chat.enabled so far.

All Chromium browsers I tried Linux and Windows don't plaintext copy/paste codeboxes into Terminals and messes with my flow with my website (notes; Chromium adds a new-line/Enter and runs commands instantly) and Firefox's the only browser that doesn't do that. I think there's an extension to change that behavior on Chromium, but I'm unsure why that's like that to begin with and it seems like a security issue (particularly websites presenting eager-install curl install.sh stuff).

Firefox has to change pretty hard for me to go to a new browser, but I'm aware of options now :p
 
Espionage724 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser) makes it sound like Chromium with extras:
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i think Chromium is actually the least bloated out of all the Chromium-based browsers, i mean it's literally the base for them
not saying it's not bloated, worth clarifying

Espionage724 said:
Firefox has to change pretty hard for me to go to a new browser, but I'm aware of options now :p
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that'd be the opposite for me, i like Chromium's features so much that i'll only switch to firefox once it tops them 😛
better screen sharing, easy profile switching, superior performance, global flags··· i still hate that it was made by a shit company tho'
 
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