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For the comments, can anyone give me an actual reason to use Brave over Firefox (and it’s forks)? I guess the cryptocurrency aspect is a reason, but I wouldn’t say it’s a very good one.

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I’d pay for a browser upfront if free solutions didn’t already exist.

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I didn’t mention that the CEO is an asshole because 1. that’s subjective and 2. it doesn’t relate to privacy in any way. The browser actively monetizing social media creators without their consent (and by extension misleading their users) is much more privacy related (in my opinion).

I don’t hate cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency is one of, if not the, best way to pay for something completely anonymously (for example XMR). I don’t believe I actively hated on cryptocurrency anywhere in this post, I simply showed how Brave is using it for malicious purposes.

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Firefox with arkenfox’s user.js or forks of Firefox such as Librewolf. You could also use Mullvad’s browser.

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There are plenty of free, open sourced, browsers that don’t monetize their users.

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Because people in this community already know not to use Google Chrome and Microsoft.

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This person was talking about the making money aspect (the rewards program) in the browser, not the browser itself making money off their users. At least that’s what I believe they were talking about.

Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

For open source messengers, you can check whether they actually encrypt your messages and whether the server has access to your encryption keys but what about WhatsApp? Since it’s not open source, you can’t be sure that the encryption keys aren’t sent to the server, right? Has there been a case where a government was able...

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Why is it legal for them to advertise it as end-to-end encrypted then?

Because they are a multi-billion dollar company.

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The EU has been trying to outlaw encryption for most of this year.

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Brave is an ad company. Don’t use Brave.

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For the record, I use SearXNG with Librewolf

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Just use all of them.

so what you’re saying is use SearXNG

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Brave is absolutely a bad browser. Brave is still very much spyware, but you can’t mitigate it like you can with Firefox. Brave is an advertisement company, and has been in multiple controversies such as injecting affiliate codes into links. There is zero reason to use Brave.

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Censorship of any kind is bad because it sets a bad precedent. There’s a reason why the ACLU defended the KKK’s freedom of speech in 1978. If you can censor one, you can censor all.

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hmmmmm

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well we very clearly did not fix it

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thank you SuckMyWang

voxel, (edited ) to BraveBrowser

Warning to all Brave Browser Users

Blocking variations.brave.com which is used for A/B testing could potentially break Brave's functionalities. For me did Brave's "forgetful browsing" feature broke which seems to be disabled by default if you block this domain.

#brave #bravebrowser #privacy @privacy @privacyguides

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Use a fork of firefox

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You can add something like AltStore to an unjailbroken iPhone and sideload a YouTube app with adblock built in.

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what?

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i prefer to use librewolf as my everyday browser, while using mullvad as my browser for other things that dont require tor i like to keep things separated, personally

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Stock Firefox is almost as bad as Google Chrome

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I wouldn’t say arkenfox is overkill. It’s the easiest way to get rid of all the spyware that comes with Firefox by default.

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I have made an entire post detailing (some) of the reasons why you shouldn’t use Brave.

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