barryvan a day ago

Or Firefox, which isn't just a reskinned Chrome...

  • esskay a day ago

    If you think Braves just 'reskinned chrome' you've clearly not used it.

    • paulryanrogers 19 hours ago

      I've tried Brave a few times. Doesn't seem significantly different from Chrome. Chromium will likely still dominate future choices for web standards and Google will still control what implementations work on the biggest properties.

wejick 21 hours ago

For just another chromium skin, I prefer vivaldi as it has more traditional offerings than brave. While having more customizable ui.

moffkalast a day ago

What makes Brave trustworthy enough for us to run our entire life through it? For me it's irreparably forever tainted by crypto grifting.

  • esskay a day ago

    The 'crypto grifting' is something you can turn off completely, it's there as a way to make the browser sustainable without accepting payments from Google to make it the default search engine.

    I'd argue its far more trustworthy than modern day Firefox/Mozilla, they're not exactly the second coming these days.

    What makes Firefox more trustworthy?

    • moffkalast 20 hours ago

      That's kind of like saying "yeah this is a mafia pizzeria but you can come eat at hours when the goons aren't there". Besides, why does Brave need that much funding? All they make is a Chromium wrapper, Google does all the work for them. They're not really an actual alternative in that sense, they just stuff it full of adblock, crypto, and god knows what. There was even a thing recently where it autoinstalled a VPN.

      Yeah it's true that Mozilla's mostly financed from Google's anti-antitrust payments, but at least they actually made something of their own and have a trustworthy track record three decades long as a non-profit and Netscape before that.

  • pixxel a day ago

    Your favourite corporations commit all sorts of crimes (ethical and actual). But let’s remember that questionable thing Brave did for eternity.

    • moffkalast 19 hours ago

      Non-profits get a tiny bit more leeway in my book. Brave is not one of them.