Cool project but I have to ask. Why not use brave?

▲ monegator 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

why use brave, really, when you have firefox? I get it if you're on iOS

▲ Barbing 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Best iOS strategy that comes to mind is Safari:

  -iCloud Private Relay (native VPN-like thing)  
  -uBlock Origin Lite
  -AdGuard DNS

(Using fresh private tabs for small privacy gain?) Better than third-party skinned browsers right? Always happy to be informed otherwise.

(AdGuard does have an option to supplant uBlock in this stack btw, does “advanced” blocking https://adguard.com/kb/adguard-for-ios/web-extension/ which is nice but trust $mm-refusing uBlock dev gorhill forever)

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Anthony-G 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This sounds like good advice so upvoted. I’m a big fan of Raymond Hill¹’s products so I am curious about how much benefit Adguard provides if uBlock Origin is already blocking online trackers, ads and other annoyances.

¹ In this case, the developer – not the musician. I really liked the user interface of uMatrix.

	▲	Barbing an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It’s really nice to have ad and tracker domains blocked systemwide though I think you need to be more careful and set your device up as supervised to have more robust blocking (real always-on VPN functionality vs. best effort?). And even then when I read about defects in Apple software that means a firewall like Little Snitch isn’t perfect (macOS) I think an external device (mobile VPN router?) is going to be essential for some threat models. (& uMatrix looks great!)

▲ RandomGerm4n 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m a Firefox user myself but there are some very valid arguments against it on Android as well. Firefox on Android is significantly more vulnerable to exploits, lacks internal sandboxing and doesn’t properly isolate tabs from each other.

▲ avazhi 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Firefox and Brave are both profoundly bad on iOS. Scrolling is a nightmare.

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jdmg94 4 hours ago | parent [-]

everything on iOS is just a safari skin

	▲	rafram 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's not totally true. Orion supports Chrome/FF WebExtensions, for example. The engine does (practically, even in the EU) have to be WebKit, but that's not the same thing as a "Safari skin."
	▲	dadoum 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There is Reynard if you're motivated too (Gecko-based, but it's not ready for prime time yet, and to get good performance you'll have to resort to some workaround to get JIT enabled, as it does not rely on Apple's BrowserEngineKit; one of the goals of the project is giving to not up-to-date iOS devices access to a modern browser).

▲ EbNar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Faster.

▲ nemomarx 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You might want to not use chromium?

▲ kuekacang 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Genuine question, does brave have ff's container extension? currently that's one of the thing that keeps holding me on ff. another big one is i test website on firefox so to not get carried away with features only available in chromium

	▲	2ndorderthought 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Containers are experimental as of very recently. So they will soon, but expect it to be in development right now. I also test on FF and I don't care much for chromium. I was just curious why the author chose to do this.

▲ Dwedit 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some people don't like how Brave is pushing cryptocurrency.

▲ recursive 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I got turned off to brave with all the token stuff. Just my take.

▲ gpm an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I care a good deal that I trust the people who developed my browser. It's about the most critical piece of software in my life. From banking to professionally to personal life.

The people who developed brave used brave to impersonate people and defraud their users out of money by asking for donations using other peoples names [1]. I don't trust them at all. Thus I don't use their browser.

And, unsurprisingly, this is part of a pattern of bad behavior, not a one off criminal act by otherwise trustworthy people, for some examples [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181221180137/https://twitter.c... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

[2] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45#issue... and https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s_up_with_lobste_rs_blocking...

▲ Larrikin 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why support Chrome at all?

▲ avazhi 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would you use Brave when for many years it wouid surreptitiously install a VPN service on your Windows machine. The Brave devs took more than a year to even address it, let alone remove it.

More ideologically, Google and Chromium are awful for the internet as monopolistic tech.

	▲	ndisn 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What’s wrong with a VPN service as long as it doesn’t route your traffic or anything.

▲ EbNar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do.

▲ jrm4 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Their whole thing looks sketchy, frankly. I'm not saying they're evil or have some deep secret ulterior motive. But their "vision" appears to be bunch of absolutely half-baked ideas for privacy, for which Firefox has a much more boring, and consequently better, track record.