“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"
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A bad move. But again i hate that many distros have a default browser and they don't let you choose.
one of the worst distros ever so I guess this is pretty obvious choice and telling to some.
No, that would be manjaro.
Define worst? It does what it says, it's an easy stable distro for windows refugees. Slow updates doesn't make something bad
"we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect"
Brave marketing has gone crazy to convince people it's less dodgy than Firefox. Come on!
Every time someone says anything positive about Brave I assume they're part of the Crypto scheme, or love Brave's CEO.
Brave hates gays
They should've picked LibreWolf which ships with uBlock Origin. Brave is a disappointing choice because it supports multi-level marketing pyramid schemes which says enough about their moral compass.
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I kinda dislike the default LibreWolf settings. Unsure if they changed it, but I remember that you have no history except you change it in the settings.
A Windows refugee wants a history. Addituonally, many pages just dont work.
My University also does capture a picture and reads it from the Canvas or something, which LibreWolf blocks. It doesnt show again if something is okay or wrong. I just got a Mail that I need to reupload it and go by myself to pickup my University-Card.
I wasnt the only one as Informatics has many Linux users and some Librewolf users.
I'm actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it had brave installed. I would immediately switch.
Brave is a fairly recent outlier, and while it isn't quite proprietary, it stinks a fair bit of something capitalist/crypto.
the everyday linux distro that is famous for asking people for money for their pro version, cause they know most of the userbase is coming from windows and doesnt know that everything is free?
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Seems like a strange choice. If anything i would've expected them to just use a firefox fork or something.
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That's gonna be a no from me, dawg
Firefox is bad, Brave is evil. Why did they decide switching is a good idea?
Recent firefox policy change is controversial, but how brave is better?
"We don't like the proposed new Coke recipe, so we're switching to drinking raw undiluted sewage instead".
Boo
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talk about bad taste
I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it's not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it's Gecko.
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Why not fork firefox
I think maintaning a Firefox fork is pretty demanding especially considering you are already maintaining a distro. And there are already a lot of Firefox forks out there.
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