• artyom@piefed.social
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    24 hours ago

    All of the current browsers have major drawbacks. Brave has many features that other browsers don’t offer. They’ve made what is quickly becoming the industry standard adblocker, being adopted by Firefox, Waterfox, Comet, and even Ladybird browser. No extensions required.

    Most browsers don’t allow you to easily toggle on and off certain privacy features on a per-site basis. That’s why I use it primarily.

    Origin is free on Linux.

    Until Servo and Ladybird are ready, this strikes the best balance for privacy and usabllity, in my opinion

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      13 hours ago

      Most browsers don’t allow you to easily toggle on and off certain privacy features on a per-site basis

      I don’t know what “certain features” are. LibreWolf lets me easily enable WebGL on per-site basis and uBlock could always do that anyway. I don’t need to touch anything else.

      Origin is free on Linux.

      Yes, and you can also toggle everything off via config. That does not matter, it’s still a scummy move that should be ridiculed. How, exactly, is a dashboard that toggles some settings on or off is worth 60 dollars? It’s not “paying for convenience” it’s a tax on tech incompetency.

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        4 hours ago

        I don’t know what “certain features” are.

        Would you like to know or were just just wanting to be contrarian?

        How, exactly, is a dashboard that toggles some settings on or off is worth 60 dollars?

        It’s not. And its not supposed to be. Its to fund the development of the browser.

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      19 hours ago

      Brave has many features that other browsers don’t offer

      Such as? Crypto nonsense?

      The adblocker? OK I guess, except they are still just a middle man for ads (hence the crypto nonsense).

      I dont see the value.

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      16 hours ago

      I’m curious how their adblocker blocks more than 100% of all ads, cuz that’s what they’d need to beat ublock (which existed before brave did).

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        10 hours ago

        To be fair, he said something about built-in
        But I’m with you
        The choice of high quality ad Blockers per addon is nothing that’s wrong with Firefox