Sometimes I think the only reason people be hating on the Brave web browser is because conservatives like it
Its a pretty nice browser but I swear some people are all like: "EWWW COOTIES"
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Elessar · 26-30, M
What does it have to offer compared to a much better established alternative such as Firefox with some good adblock and privacy extensions installed?
They seem to do pretty shady stuff with their rewards system (see e.g. https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/do-not-use-brave-browser/), and don't inspire me much trust honestly
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They seem to do pretty shady stuff with their rewards system (see e.g. https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/do-not-use-brave-browser/), and don't inspire me much trust honestly
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Fishy · 36-40, F
@Quoththeraven Yeah, I've had people make comments saying I must be conservative because I use the Brave browser lol.
I'm barely even into politics 😂
I'm barely even into politics 😂
PiecingBabyFaceTogether · 31-35, M
ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 51-55, M
SW-User
Never knew any browser was associated with a particular political ideology (and I'm not sure the concept of a "privacy" focus is really owned by either conservatives or liberals, but conservatives may be more paranoid in general).
I have no reason to switch from Firefox, particularly to Chromium-based browsers like Brave. I only open Chromium-based Vivaldi when I need to use the Shazam extension, but I don't like Vivaldi enough to replace Firefox with it as my primary browser. Hey Shazam jerks, make a version of your extension for Firefox already, it's like, a major, established browser.
I see that one of the founders of Brave is conservative Brendan Eich. But as far as it specifically being preferred by other conservatives, I've never heard this. It does seem that the right wing website Gab did create a fork of Brave, so I guess Brave isn't conservative enough? I wonder how Gab made it more conservative 🤣
Brendan Eich was also a co-founder of Mozilla, but I won't let that alone stop me from using Firefox. He also created JavaScript and there aren't many sites I can use fully when I have JavaScript intentionally disabled (kinda ironic), so what am I gonna do? Even on SW images won't load if I disable JavaScript because Nuno and Andrew have decided to rely on it to load images for some bizarre reason
I've also always had a fetish for the way Firefox stores bookmarks: in an actual database. Not a JSON file, XBEL file or any other non-relational, flat file method. I haven't manually queried the places.sqlite database often, but I like that I can:
I have no reason to switch from Firefox, particularly to Chromium-based browsers like Brave. I only open Chromium-based Vivaldi when I need to use the Shazam extension, but I don't like Vivaldi enough to replace Firefox with it as my primary browser. Hey Shazam jerks, make a version of your extension for Firefox already, it's like, a major, established browser.
I see that one of the founders of Brave is conservative Brendan Eich. But as far as it specifically being preferred by other conservatives, I've never heard this. It does seem that the right wing website Gab did create a fork of Brave, so I guess Brave isn't conservative enough? I wonder how Gab made it more conservative 🤣
Brendan Eich was also a co-founder of Mozilla, but I won't let that alone stop me from using Firefox. He also created JavaScript and there aren't many sites I can use fully when I have JavaScript intentionally disabled (kinda ironic), so what am I gonna do? Even on SW images won't load if I disable JavaScript because Nuno and Andrew have decided to rely on it to load images for some bizarre reason
I've also always had a fetish for the way Firefox stores bookmarks: in an actual database. Not a JSON file, XBEL file or any other non-relational, flat file method. I haven't manually queried the places.sqlite database often, but I like that I can: