this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
1 points (52.4% liked)

Brave Browser

837 readers
1 users here now

Unofficial Brave Community

Release Overview - Stable Versions

Keep in mind that the official changelog website is often behind actual release versions, the website is maintained by marketing people. Also note that not every single change/issue is mentioned in the release notes, because lots of changes are done in the background e.g. filter-list changes etc.

Community Rules

  • Be civil.
  • Do not troll.
  • Stay on topic.
  • No hate allowed.
  • No witch-hunt allowed.
  • Reviews are allowed.
  • People are freely allowed to ask questions and express their concerns on a civil manner. Make sure if its unrelated to the topic to create a separate thread do not hijack existent threads.
  • Accept other people opinions.
  • No fanboyism tolerated, not for nor against Brave Browser or the Dev Team.
  • No bias, take news and given Info - as is - and do not wrongly interpret something more into it.
  • No affiliate or promotion from external marketing people are allowed in here, if you are such a person contact a Mod first.

Useful Resources

Copyright and Credit

  • Logos and design as well as trademarks are respected. Credit for Logos goes to the actual authors and copyright owners.
  • Brave has the rights on their own logos and banners, please DM or send me an eMail if you have a problem regarding copyright and I will happily address all concerns.
  • I do not tolerate username squatting.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
1
I migrated from Firefox to Brave, best decision of my life (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Basically I got tired of doing the same thing on Firefox for each computer so that the browser that is supposed to be private IS private (reconnect to the Firefox account, put back the user.js, get rid of Google etc...) knowing that, since I'm on iOS, the browser sucks (no ad blocking, poorly designed interface, etc...).

I knew there was Brave, but the sync function was too weird! Why not set up an account system??? But with this browser, everything is synchronized (even the search engine, except on mobile, but that's good enough), ads are blocked by default and my privacy is protected to the max. Thank you Brave!

all 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

yeah I hate to break it to you but if you want privacy brave is not the way to go, they have built in ads that rely on tracking you, not to mention is built off of chromium so it has all googles spyware.

they also are heavily invested in crypto scams, and they also have secretly put affiliate links in your urls so they make money off of you.

on top of that all the CEO is a bigot who donated money to anti minority and lgbtq causes and has spoken out against gay people in the past.

[–] DeltaWingDragon 2 points 2 months ago

This article from The Verge says they only added affiliates to cryptocurrency links. The CEO has since apologized.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

That's a lot of FUD/hearsay in a single comment. Congrats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I used to use Brave and recently switched to Firefox. While it is a nice browser, Brave is Chrome (Chromium) and therefore not ideal for privacy.