Every single time someone mentions they abandoned firefox for something “better”, it’s chromium based. Privacy is good, but the most important for me is to avoid monopoly/monoculture.
I chucked Brave shortly after they decided to install a VPN service on my machine without consent or notification.
A service that silently reinstalled itself on Brave update.
A service that did not remove itself when you uninstall Brave. It took a lot of research and time to rip out the guts of that. I will never trust Brave again.
I think brave should be disregarded as something safe and privacy respecting if they were willing to silently whitelist Facebook trackers in the past. Then there is their whole crypto obsession.
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Which engine does it use?
-Wikipedia
Probably chromium, haha, so no-go.
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Qtwebengine is essentially chromium lol
Hmm. I’m using Waterfox rn.
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yeah, thats chromium bro
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yes, they are not nearly on Googles level, not even comparably.
Secondly it’s not even primarily about that, even if it made no difference, two competing shitty companies is better than a full on monopoly.
I’m not coming from google hate, I just want there to be more than one actor, therefore I will never ever pick the largest one.
Every single time someone mentions they abandoned firefox for something “better”, it’s chromium based. Privacy is good, but the most important for me is to avoid monopoly/monoculture.
Falkon is based on QtWebEngine.
So not Chromium although they may share renderer, but last I heard QtWebEngine was based on Webkit.
-Wikipedia
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If they control the browser core they control the web, no two ways about it.
Not taking any chances. https://winworldpc.com/product/ncsa-mosaic/1
Yes, that’s right. I’m going to buy a 486, run windows 3.1 with trumpet winsock and be rid of tracking forever!
Until then:
https://kbin.life/media/take_no_chances.png
Falkon is better for privacy than stock Chrome or Firefox, but I still find Brave or LibreWolf better than that.
I chucked Brave shortly after they decided to install a VPN service on my machine without consent or notification.
A service that silently reinstalled itself on Brave update.
A service that did not remove itself when you uninstall Brave. It took a lot of research and time to rip out the guts of that. I will never trust Brave again.
I think brave should be disregarded as something safe and privacy respecting if they were willing to silently whitelist Facebook trackers in the past. Then there is their whole crypto obsession.