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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 10 months ago by whou@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[-] falsem@kbin.social 112 points 10 months ago

People that use Brave always remind of the people pushing crypto.

[-] Can_Utility@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago

Seems like the Venn diagram of those two groups approaches a circle, if the OP is any indication.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

I use firefox as my main but have brave as my chromium/PWA browser because I don't really fancy using edge or chrome

What other browsers out there support PWAs that are less spyware-ey than the big names

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Chromium is pretty safe to use. There are also builds of "de-googled Chromium" available.

[-] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Vivaldi, though it's source available rather than fully open source. It's mostly the frontend JavaScript (I think?) code which is proprietary.

Apparently, if you know enough to understand it, you can technically work out what all the proprietary code is and does because it's all fairly simple stuff and separate from the Chromium base (which they make available on their site), although distributing it would be against their ToS (I guess it's technically reverse engineering, which is also against their ToS).

It's been a very long time and I can't actually confirm that for the current release, but it was at least true a few years ago when someone who knew far more about programming than me mentioned it on their forums. I think some people took a look at it and found some basic theming stuff, but nothing nefarious.

They have a fairly solid privacy policy last I checked. They also have no intention of sticking with Google's v3 plans.

The only thing I don't like is they run a daily user count check by pinging their servers. They've made it so that there are no IDs, anonymized or otherwise, but it's still a bit of a black mark on an otherwise decent piece of software.

[-] falsem@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago
[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Firefox does not support PWAs on desktop, but there is an extension to enable them which works well.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Out of curiosity, why would you use PWA on desktop?

[-] whou@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

test my own PWA of websites I'm developing

changing browsers or keeping both open breaks the workflow and sucks. and it's pretty damn slow for me too

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

There's sometimes desktop functionality like saving music on yt music

Also having them in their own window/their own shortcut is pretty handy and firefox doesn't support shortcuts either nowqdays

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