> I had some messing around to do up front, like hiding all the crypto and AI nonsense...

Switching to Brave from Firefox due to AI and ethical concerns seems like a lateral move at best if being generous.

rpdillon 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just as a counterpoint, I switched to Brave because Firefox no longer holds the technical or moral high ground. Brave is an open-source browser which makes it different from Chrome and Vivaldi. Brave is a privacy-focused browser. Brave is the only browser that is open source and also lets me pay for it so I can have a clean, uncluttered, fast experience. Brave is the only chromium-based browser that I'm aware of that continues to support Manifest V2 for UBlock Origin, which is critical for my use case.

Mozilla has been distracted by a million shiny things around them. They've been mismanaged almost criminally and they have changed their terms of service to be much less privacy-oriented than they used to be.

In my humble opinion, Brave gets far too much hate on this site and is actually the best browser made today in terms of open source availability, a focus on privacy and empowerment of the end user, while maximizing site compatibility.

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MeetingsBrowser 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

> Brave is a privacy-focused browser.

Isn't Brave's main source of revenue serving you ads based on information collected about you from while using their browser?

	▲	paimapi 8 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Mozilla has been distracted by a million shiny things around them also this - like Brave being inundated with crypto shit and now AI shit isn't them hopping on every last fad as fast as possible? it's also wild to me how many people default to citing FireFox when there are open-source, privacy-focused forks like LibreWolf, Tor Browser, and Mullvad Browser out there, all of which blow Brave out of the water for privacy by their own admission on that privacytests.org site (that one of their staff engs owns)
	▲	tky 5 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That and their foray into crypto, both easily and permanently disabled with clearly labeled toggles along with all telemetry.

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glenstein 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Right, I felt the same thing. Switching to Brave because Firefox "isn't ethical enough" is like switching to McDonald's because the farmer's market produce isn't organic enough.

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MeetingsBrowser 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I got fed up with ads in search results and invasive tracking from Google.

I've switched fully to Meta's Muse for all of my research going forward.

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renjimen 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You got fed up with invasive tracking so you switched to a Meta product?

	▲	sedawkgrep 21 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think they're joking.
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	▲	the_gipsy 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A Facebook product.

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russdill 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd like to switch friends and family over to brave, but trying to avoid ads that might confuse them was kind of the point...so....

	▲	iAMkenough 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you're going to take on doing personal tech support for Brave for your friends and family, why not let them keep what they're familiar with and switch their DNS to an adblocking provider instead?