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[โ€“] explodicle 65 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Daily reminder that

  • Brave's CEO donates to homophobic organizations and
  • Brave is connected to the BAT pay-to-surf scam

Don't use Brave.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)
  • Brave is based on Chromium and therefore helps contribute to Google having hegemony over web standards.

Always use a Firefox-based browser, even if you think Mozilla sucks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

At least until Ladybird is ready. I hope they are not under too much pressure to rush things so we get a truly independent web browser.

[โ€“] RvTV95XBeo 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What about on iOS where it's all forced WebKit?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Ideally don't use iOS it's a walled garden, you don't really control your device

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

If it relies on Chromium as a base in any way, it is still beholden to Google's design decisions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yup! It is noted in the highlighted text in red. I've had several people respond that they didn't know about it, and would be making the switch away :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Never had a good feeling about that one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

It's a shitty "secure" browser to begin with imho

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Also reminder that StartPage is majority-owned by American ad company Sytem1