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Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

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323 points plusCubed | 3 comments | 21 Dec 18 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.439s | source
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aphextron ◴[21 Dec 18 19:26 UTC] No.18735814[source]▶
I'd been really loving Brave and using it as my daily driver for a few months now, until that I noticed that little "Brave Ads" icon at the end of the address bar. That's when I realized their entire business model is just in the usurpation of existing Google ad revenue, dressed up with "privacy concerns" for the good PR. This sent me on a journey to find a really solid, free, Chromium based browser that is totally de-Googled, which seems absolutely impossible. I've tacitly settled on Vivaldi, but it's just impossible to really know if they are trustworthy as a company in the long run. Ultimately I feel like I can only trust a browser who's entire build process is open source at this point.
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rthomas6 ◴[21 Dec 18 19:28 UTC] No.18735832[source]▶
Honest question. Why not Firefox? What are your concerns with it?
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rchaud ◴[21 Dec 18 21:29 UTC] No.18736818[source]▶
Firefox absolutely sucks on Android. It's fine on Mac OS, but it is so much slower than Brave (Chromium based) and Chrome itself, that it becomes irritating to use. That being said, it does support extensions like Ublock Origin and Ghostery.

Mobile Chrome means zero extensions and ad hell, so Brave it is. Same Chrome engine and UI (swipeable tabs is something I miss in Firefox Android) and adblocking.

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zamalek ◴[21 Dec 18 22:23 UTC] No.18737233[source]▶
> Firefox absolutely sucks on Android.

Have you tried it lately? I agree that it used to, but it has improved vastly. It's my daily driver now.

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1. pedrocx486 ◴[21 Dec 18 23:52 UTC] No.18737811[source]▶
I did, tried it for a week, honestly the scrolling still feels horrible when compared to Chrome.
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2. zamalek ◴[22 Dec 18 03:04 UTC] No.18738668[source]▶
I absolutely agree with that, scrolling feels really janky but I did get used to it.
3. sombremesa ◴[22 Dec 18 08:57 UTC] No.18739722[source]▶
Agreed that scrolling is still janky, but the syncing of prefs (especially add-ons) is well worth it, imo.

Heck, even just the one add-on that lets you sleep your phone while a YouTube video continues playing is well worth using Firefox. Such a basic functionality isn't enough reason to get YouTube Red.

And then, you have add-ons like ublock origin that give you the Brave-like functionality without all this brouhaha.