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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 393 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

"Forget the fox!"

... "Contains ads"

No, I don't think I will.

[–] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 76 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

It's on Chromium so I will not use them

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 223 points 4 weeks ago (40 children)

Contains Ads

I don't know why anyone ever installed Brave

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 42 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I think it's more, "may contain ads, if you opt-in to earning BAT."

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 42 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Make it

Contains a way to earn some kind of currency

So the browser itself is like an ad

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 21 points 3 weeks ago

Brave still does include ads enabled by default. You need to disable sponsored images in the New Tab page.

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 205 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Brave? The browser that hides ads and substitutes their own? The one that keeps you private from Google AdSense so they can sell your data themselves? The one that keeps their Chromium build lean, so that you don’t notice the crypto miner running along side of it?

The fucking PayPal Honey of browsers? When the fuck did they ever look good? They’re like the “Banzai Buddy” of the HTML5 era

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 42 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They managed to piss off Tom Scott.

A thing I had not previously considered was possible.

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[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 121 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have been using Brave for the last year and I did like it as a mobile browser. But today I noticed that when I was searching about abortion and etopic pregnancy (fact checking a really dumb article) that all of a sudden their AI crap was throwing "no results available" errors. I checked some other left leaning topics and sure enough it no longer gives you AI results. So I immediately uninstalled that shit from my phone because fuck them.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is not having AI results really a bad thing?

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 55 points 3 weeks ago

Not at all. I never wanted to see AI and it kept turning itself back on this was just the final push for me to uninstall it.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it's more about the clear bias on display, wherein certain topics are suppressed

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[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 105 points 3 weeks ago

Brave has never had a good look.

[–] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 86 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Fuck Brave, it's based on Chromium and contains crypto BS.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 59 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

The same Brave founded by the anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-DEI CEO that doesn't believe that gay people should have the same rights as straight people? Color me shocked!

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, Brave is the butt-hurt edgelord of browsers.

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[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I think anyone who is already using Firefox knows very well why they wouldn't want to use Brave 🤷 (My main reasons were being a Chromium browser and having unwanted crypto features included.)

Edit: Oh yes, and the CEO's homophobia is not helping either...

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[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not very professional.

It's not the 90s and they are not rivaling fast food chains.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

It's technically correct with all of these but extremely disingenuous.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 27 points 3 weeks ago

Kind of funny they list their built-in, paid VPN as a positive feature and not a negative. Maybe they were running out of good things to say about... Themselves.

Granted, Mozilla also shot themselves in the foot by saying Firefox was better for not blocking ads by default, but that's a different story for a different day

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, you could do this with anything

nazism:

-✅️ Very terrifying and intimidating uniforms

Every other ideology:

-❌️ Does not have terrifying and intimidating uniforms*

*According to opinions of career nazis

This is what Brave is doing 🙄

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"Was getting tired Brave, and noticed they mentioned Firefox in their ads. Was curious what that was and upon launching Firefox, immediately I felt something, my disappointment is no longer immeasurable, and my day is no longer ruined!"

brave = 0/5 🤮

Firefox = 6/5 😎

[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 weeks ago

Daily reminder that Brave uses Chromium, an open source project where all the commits are approved or denied by Google devs.

[–] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 weeks ago

Two of the reasons I'd never use it. The other is not wanting to support the Google monopoly.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago

"Fire the Fox" would have been a better slogan

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 41 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Broke one of the golden rules of advertising (at least the advertising lessons I learned from an old advertising guy I knew a long time ago)

Never mention your competition in your advertising .... because every time you do, you've given them free advertising.

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't know much about brave except that its chromium based and apparently removes web ads as its main feature. Why are they running ads? Why do I keep getting this browser recommended? How the fuck do they make money to be able to target me with this info? Something is off and I don't like it. I feel like the pressure to use brave isnt coming to me organically so I'm staying clear of it. I just have a bad feeling and I'll trust my gut on this.

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Because they "reward" people with crypto for watching ads so a lot of cryptobro assholes have financial interest in the browser getting more popular.

Also the CEO is homophobic and right-wing so it speaks to a lot of loud assholes.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 23 points 3 weeks ago

Its full of crypto bullshit as well, and they add their own ads too some pages that they pay you to watch (in a useless crypto)

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[–] azron@lemmy.ml 32 points 4 weeks ago

Hahahhaah. If they are so desperate they are trying to knock off the 10 or so users on Firefox they must really be in dire straights.

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Forget the Lion

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Meh, they can shoot at Firefox if they want, but it's actually pretty good marketing for the Fox.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 40 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Iirc, it only comes up if you search for firefox. They could have changed it.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 35 points 4 weeks ago

Confirmed. They definitely paid to advertise under "Firefox" searches.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I got the same result, searching for Firefox on Play store

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 3 weeks ago

I ditched this crap years ago. Fuck this Trojan horse.

[–] sma3in@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

I never liked or trusted Brave for what it claims it fights for

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Guess you're outside the EU or something? Cause it looks different over here, Firefox isn't mentioned here. Also they're at 4.9 instead of 4.7 for some reason. Either way, fuck brave.

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[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Firefox is my main browser, but I occasionally need a Chromium browser for technical reasons. I had been using Brave - note the past tense there. Any suggestions for my new secondary browser?

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 weeks ago

Ungoogled Chromium flatpak

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[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago
[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

How is it more private, when the browser is the one handling your data to show you ads, on top of the websites trying to do the same. So, extra ads? Wtf.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Brave is also just essentially rebranded Chromium funded by an anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-DEI right-wing CEO.

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[–] yrmitz@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago

Oh wow! I need to install this ultra bloated version of Chromium.

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