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No idea why people use Brave when Firefox exists
Well, it said right there in the article that until today, Brave was that only browser that would truncate tracker tags when copying a URL to clipboard.
Moar browsers == moar innovation.
Interesting, in the past Brave injected their own affiliate links into URLs. That alone should tell you not to use it.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology
Oh plus the integration with crypto...
It has the potential to be a completely frictionless entry ramp to crypto. It has (had?) such potential, but they just keep not delivering anything of actual use. So, yeah, Firefox.
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Yeah but you can easily install clearURLs
Why are you spelling more wrong?
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/moar
Default Brave blocks ads more aggressively than default Firefox. Of course you can achieve that with Firefox + uBlock Origin, but add-ons are not available on iOS and iPad OS.
That's just my experience. I still use Firefox + Firefox Focus BTW. To block more aggressively, I also use VPN + Adguard Home.
This. Only reason I use Brave is for my iPhone (which I am already planning to jump back to Android when it's time for a new phone) because I can listen to YouTube videos/music in the background and no ads when going through the browser (another reason I'm going back to Android is for Revanced). Everything else is FF
Yep and for some people it's too hard to think about extensions so just having them install Brave is a perfect recommendation (for now anyway).
Brave has superior fingerprint protection, they achieve this by randomizing the browsers fingerprint. Visit EFF's cover your tracks to test your browser.
To achieve the same functionality that brave achieves out of the box with Firefox I need many extensions and then when I profile both browsers, Firefox is more resource intensive. Brave's blocking is native to the browser. I will give Firefox the W because I've read that uBlock is technically more capable. But as a long time Firefox/uBlock user who switched to brave - this has not been noticable.
As for accessibility, I can configure brave to be really aggressive at ad blocking, tracking blocking, fingerprint blocking, and restricting JS even, and all those options I can set from one place instead of in different settings/extensions. When a website breaks, I click on the button next to the URL and immediately have options to granularly dial down the "protection" or add a website to my trusted list. In Firefox I was annoyed to having go through settings for the extension.
Brave plans to continue supporting Manifest V2 after Google kills it. For Ungoogled Chromium, however, it's still undecided, likely depending on whether UG contributors are willing to maintain it.
Brave has superior fingerprint protection, they achieve this by randomizing the browsers fingerprint. Visit EFF's cover your tracks to test your browser.
To achieve the same functionality that brave achieves out of the box with Firefox I need many extensions and then when I profile both browsers, Firefox is more resource intensive. Brave's blocking is native to the browser. I will give Firefox the W because I've read that uBlock is technically more capable. But as a long time Firefox/uBlock user who switched to brave - this has not been noticable.
As for accessibility, I can configure brave to be really aggressive at ad blocking, tracking blocking, fingerprint blocking, and restricting JS even, and all those options I can set from one place instead of in different settings/extensions. When a website breaks, I click on the button next to the URL and immediately have options to granularly dial down the "protection" or add a website to my trusted list. In Firefox I was annoyed to having go through settings for the extension.
Brave plans to continue supporting Manifest V2 after Google kills it. For Ungoogled Chromium, however, it's still undecided, likely depending on whether UG contributors are willing to maintain it.
The only reason why I still have Brave installed is because some sites don't work with Firefox. Like Webflow's editor. At least they claim it's not supported yet.
I use chromium for that, there are many better browsers (even chromium forks) than braves IMO.
I use Falkon.
Did you try faking the user agent?
No, technically, I don't even have to. The website just gives a message that it wasn't tested on Firefox. But it's still usable. I just don't want to deal with any problems that might arise in the complicated process of building a website in the browser.
Because Firefox Android sucks, no trolling. It's slow and in some pages, specially with video DRM don't even work. Two, there are features lacking on Firefox for few use cases like clipboard with VNC "Your browser is not configured to allow access to your computer's clipboard". Besides, people here are so politically biased that they are capable of justify some crap that comes with Firefox such as pocket full of ads, ads by default on Android in the main page, and other less "shady" things, like Mozilla CEOs salary. I will be open to considerate again by default if Firefox Android receives a great performance upgrade. Something that I liked about brave here is that they said it will support MV2 extensions when MV3 comes.
Maybe try the testing branch (called 'Firefox for testers', or better yet, fennec)?
I'm using Firefox Nightly on Android, there is not other bleeding edge branch. On desktop the story is completely different. Listen, I'm not here because of the politics. Eich is shit because his postures about gay marriage, we all know that. I am here exclusively to talk about performance and what is the better tech stack of browsers.
Cool man, I agree on Eich, not that I was aware of it at all before. It's tragic how politics complicates everything for all the wrong reasons.
I don't know what the best tech stack is (esp. on mobile), and I've always hated how mobile-based Firefox struggles to go full screen with videos half of the time.
I think fennec is just a fork that removes some Mozilla tracking, possibly only available via FDroid(?). It's no different really...
For me, the YouTube experience is better.
How so?
So I just checked and they fixed it but for a while Firefox was not blocking the ad block warning popup that google put and brave didn’t have that.