| ▲ | bamboozled 6 days ago |
| Have you tried Brave? |
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| ▲ | thesuitonym 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Brave is adware. |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Technically, both Chrome and Firefox are adware too, since Google's main business is ads, and Firefox/Mozilla get a lot of money from Google to display Google as a search engine in Firefox (an ad :) ) | | | |
| ▲ | mikkupikku 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Only if you opt-in to that misfeature, last I checked. It's opt-in, not opt-out. | | |
| ▲ | thesuitonym 6 days ago | parent [-] | | I don't know, Brave says it's every third new tab. https://brave.com/brave-ads/browser/ | | |
| ▲ | lkbm 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Looks like I'm getting a ProtonMail ad every few new tabs. I never noticed because I've never looked at the new tab page. Doesn't noticeably slow it down to have the ad there, luckily. | | | |
| ▲ | cpburns2009 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The new tab ads can be disabled with 2 clicks. | | |
| ▲ | thesuitonym 6 days ago | parent [-] | | I love how quickly the goalpost moves from "No ads" to "Only opt in ads" to "Ads can be disabled with two clicks." Quit coping and just admit it, Brave is adware. If you like it, that's cool, totally your choice. It's fast, performant adware. But it's adware all the same. | | |
| ▲ | cpburns2009 6 days ago | parent [-] | | Firefox has ads in the same places. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy | | |
| ▲ | thesuitonym 6 days ago | parent [-] | | whataboutism gets you nowhere. Brave is still adware. | | |
| ▲ | DaSHacka 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | As is Firefox, and Chrome. So really, there's no point in singling it out. | |
| ▲ | cpburns2009 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's strange you're so adamant to label Brave adware while dismissing concerns that Firefox engages in very similar "adware" practices. | |
| ▲ | bamboozled 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It might be adware but I’ve actually never noticed the ads! Also it’s the only browser on my phone that I can use to browse the web without ads… | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | When we're talking about reasons to switch browsers, then saying they both have the same behavior is not whataboutism. It's extremely important context to the complaint. |
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| ▲ | EbNar 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Been running it since 2021. The adblocker is simply great. A d keeps getting better. |
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| ▲ | Larrikin 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's good enough when some terrible lazy web designer only tested on Chrome. It does nothing to protect against the future when Google decides they are sick of people trying to get around their Ad Block ban and change the license because no one has any real alternatives anymore. Also blocking is not as good as intentionally poisoning with something like Ad Nauseum |
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| ▲ | coffeebeqn 6 days ago | parent [-] | | What’s the current licensing mode? Can they fork their own version at that point in time and develop it open source ? | | |
| ▲ | pseudalopex 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | No Chromium fork developer not called Microsoft have the resources to maintain a web browser engine. But focus on the license overlooks a more important threat. Google made Web Environment Integrity so services could require approved devices, operating systems, and browsers. Resistance led Google to remove it from desktop for now. But they kept something like it in Android. And they will try again. | |
| ▲ | cpeterso 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Chromium uses the BSD license. Google could take Chromium closed source tomorrow without needing to change the license. |
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| ▲ | lurk2 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| A few years ago. Crashed constantly and didn’t support tagging bookmarks. |
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