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I've been seeing a lot of people hate and uninstall Brave. Why? It's not like they're tracking us or doing anything else shady. If so, what's the privacy alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am a very, very long time Firefox user. Brave probably has a case for getting Chrome users to consider switching, but I've never encountered any compelling reason to consider switching from Firefox to Brave.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've had a ton of websites break when using Firefox with uBlock Origin, I've never had a broken website with Brave.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If a site breaks because you're using ff, the web developer behind it is clearly a fucking idiot. If it works in chrome it's going to work in FF, unless you've done something extraordinarily stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but that doesnt fix the issue. Had some issues with ff on a govt site, sent a complaint and got basically "use chrome lol" as a response.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's usually tracking protection breaking the site, in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even with the protections completely off, it was still borked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A ton of websites? I block 3.5 million domains through DNS and run uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and some other anti-tracking bits and pieces, and I've only ever had problems with a small handful of sites, which were almost all resolved by temporarily unblocking something. I have had to hop over to a Chromium-based browser only once in recent months, for one particularly badly implemented website. Where are you seeing this "ton" of sites that break? My experience has been quite different.

I find it's just fine to use Firefox and hop over to Brave about once a year when something doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's usually Government websites, and some websites I buy things from.