As usual in the comments, programming.dev chuds care a whole lot about performatively not caring and get enraged at the thought of other people caring, thus the advocacy for Brave Browser entirely on the basis of "melting snowflakes" the way thumbheads roll coal because they want to "trigger" people that would prefer an inhabitable environment. 
brave literally has a scam cryptocurrency wtf. if you hate firefox that much use its forks like Mullvad Browser (you dont have to use vpn).
loser soyfacing batchesting clowns
Same energy as aging fundies going to Chick-Fil-A specifically out of spite against gay people.
Even better is the money-man early backer of Brave was Peter Theil. Peter Theil is the reactionary alt-right billionaire who founded the CIA In-Q-Tel backed Palantir, a company infamous for selling big-brother-as-a-service to the US nat-sec apparatus. I don't trust anything he has his fingers in, especially if it is claiming to be selling you privacy while browsing the Internet. It's just like how Elon Musk, another billionaire who like Theil was raised apartheid South Africa, claims to be promoting freedom and privacy by buying Twiter.
If you care about privacy and an open web, stick with Mozilla Firefox and avoid honeypots like Brave.
Programming.dev chuds in the Lemmy federation want to "melt snowflakes" a lot more than they actually care about privacy and they're fine with walled gardens on the internet if they think they will have the keys to them.
firefox is fine, they just hate that mozilla fired a homophobe once
In the comments:
Haters gonna hate. Make FF great again and people will start coming back.
Make FF great again
Why are cryptofascist dogs barking all across the neighborhood?
If Firefox goes under or gets to a low enough % of users on the Internet, companies are going to stop supporting it (kind of already are) which would be literally handing the Internet to Google to make all the rules, decide which technologies to deprecate, which to introduce (web attestation for example). Good luck getting a new browser to be supported anywhere after that.
But they refuse to engage with that, they go on the defensive. "You will pay for disturbing my quiet enjoyment of treats
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Brave was started by a Mozilla contributor who wouldn't sign the code of conduct iirc
He served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer before he was appointed chief executive officer, but resigned shortly after his appointment due to pressure over his firm opposition to same-sex marriage. He subsequently became the CEO of Brave Software.
Ah okay I remember now
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This shit would be too silly for dystopian fiction in the 90s.
Check out this recent whopper:
Mozilla wants to censor and cancel people, harder. And Google is the king of censorship.
I'm going to stick with Brave.
It takes a special level of galaxy-brained techbro computer toucher to be fine with spyware and malware and insidious social manipulation as long as they can say the n-word on the internet.
Not only are you just spewing total nonsense, but also managed to fit in an epic strawman argument. Nice try, clown.
People in the comments defending Brave or saying the article is shitty: climate change denier, edgy sexist username haver,
guy, anticommunist troll on Lemmygrad, person unironically talking about snowflakes and doing the ”libs triggered” bitSure isn't changing my preconception of Brave being a chud browser.
There's also this gem:
All I read is cryptocurrency hating.
Yeah, hating cryptocurrency is good.
All I read is cryptocurrency hating.
All the chud reads is people not liking planet-burning grifts that make kiddie creeping techbros richer.
If you ever installed Brave you failed a series of litmus tests.
"You are currently clicking the link for a browser that will try to sell you a cryptocurrency every 15 minutes. Why?"
"From the look of this UI and logo, the crypto grfiting was priority number one."
"He's not kidding about the visuals." "Taking emergency action."You come to sitting in your computer chair, facing away from your desk to look out the window. You can't remember what you sat down to do, but you get the sense it wasn't important.
what is actually the best "secure" browser? aren't both brave and duckduckgo ran by bigots? any people would recommend?
Just use Firefox with ublock origin. Maybe get a VPN if you're serious about anonymous browsing. There's rapidly diminishing returns in obsessing over privacy tools compared to changing your browsing habits.
Indeed. You have to consider your threat profile. Most data harvesting isn't aimed at you per-se, you're just in the target audience.
If you're just trying to be a responsible citizen who'se reasonably informed and likes their privacy. A decent browser, blocker, and VPN will protect you from 99% of casual grift & grime.
Unless you're planning something that'll get you assigned an Agent somewhere, in which case you should log off and not talk around electronics at all.
somewhat concerned that with the increasing rise of blatant fascism in the US the definition of a "threat" worth keeping an eye on will become a group me and most other cool left wing people will be included in
It's even worse than diminishing returns—the more privacy extensions and add-ons you install the more identifiable you are through browser fingerprinting
Best browser I've ever used on Android was Naked Browser. Made by some random dude on /g/ and he was pretty damn funny sometimes. Worked perfectly on a 4 button android setup, extremely barebones but had most everything I wanted.
there's a reasonable argument for vanadium on Android as it can replace the system webview and reduce the attack surface. adblocking at the dns level is probably most effective anyway.
I don't disagree, only that I really don't like it. It comes as the default browser in GrapheneOS, and it's always the first thing I replace. It's too barebones for my needs.
yeah that's fair. they just have a reasonable point about addons increasing attack surface. so it comes down to your threat model.
I'm not saying you can't use Brave if that's what you really want to do and see no other viable options. I posted this specifically because of the take that it's "based" to "melt snowflakes" by choosing a browser specifically because it's ran by loud bigoted Web3 grifters.
but is brave good (for privacy) or is there something better i should use
It's terrible for privacy because it pretty much directly packages your browsing data for sale to third parties, which is another thing that edgy programming.dev chuds performatively "don't care" about.
right now i am using firefox with the common privacy extensions people were talking about in this thread https://hexbear.net/post/96791?scrollToComments=false
specifically privacy badger, clearurls, ublock origin, decentraleyes, user agent switcher, and facebook container
You can prob leave out almost everything except ublock according to recommendations from the arkenfox folks
There's also NoScript for manual control over Javascript on webpages, and CanvasBlocker, which "allows users to prevent websites from using some Javascript APIs to fingerprint them."
pretty sure its just the most widely used thing with a couple of ok privacy addons. firefox with ublock and a vpn. you could go deeper but that probably increases the chance that you stand out. iirc just having too many addons installed can make you stand out
I remember using waterfox back in the day when regular Firefox wasn't 64-bit yet. Good times
Libertarians being so pro-open source and still believing the things they do is one of the greatest mysteries of our time
I've been seeing this recently now where people are trying to say that understanding emotions about how you feel about something is dumb if two other people disagree with you.
How does that work?
"I feel good today!"
Two malding chanlords: "No, you don't. You're deranged and (suicide demand here)."
Two more chuds: makes video about you "HEY GUYS THE WOKE ARE TRYING TO MAKE YOU CRY AND IF YOU DO, THEN YOU ARE NOT A MAN!"
and then a black Chud appears: "Yeah man, I don't ever show emotions. Dead ass like a Wall when I get called a bitch by my dad!"
And then a pick me appears: "I like guys who literally make themselves emotionless, anyone who says otherwise never had to swim in men tears."
Then the chuds that drool over the cam girl's podcast/stream/OnlyFans "THAT FEEEEEMALE DOESN'T DIRECTLY AND EXCLUSIVELY PANDER TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (avalanche of death threats here)"
Could you please share any good alternatives? I've been unaware of these issues until now and to be honest, I doubt that I see myself expending the energy to read this article.
That being said, right now Brave provides a very easy to use ad-free experience that is great for running youtube in the background ad-free. It's pretty good for listening to lectures on youtube and performs much better than podbean which often freezes randomly, a bug that is pretty bad given that I listen to alot of these things while driving and am unable to fidget with it.
Is there a similar browser that has these functionalities that works as well or better? If so I'd gladly switch over and encourage my partner to do the same.
I’ve found Firefox with UBlock and UMatrix to be the best setup honestly
this is it
a fun bonus with uMatrix is that you get to stare into the web development abyss on every new website encounter
you should smash your computer just to be safe
