Brave is just Chromium. Brave is effectively nothing.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
653 points (96.4% liked)
memes
18598 readers
3303 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Brave is a piece of shit software, created by a piece of shit person.
You have just described most software
Firefox has forks.
But does Firefox have spoons and knives too?
What about plates and bowls?
Gotta say, of those two arguments, Brave's is stronger
Yeah, it's easy to have good arguments if you don't really care if you're right or not
They're both fucking terrible, but I choose firefox.
Fuck off with your both sides bullshit.
One is a company trying to drive itself into the ground and getting stopped left and right by the 12 of us who still believe in the mission.
One is a homophobic crypto-scammer upset at getting kicked out of the other org.
Edit: Speak of the devil, this just showed up in my all: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/36237549
Despite the similarities in phrasing, no idea who that person is.
What about Vivaldi Browser?
Vivaldi is easily my favorite browser, but unfortunately it's still Chromium-based which is a problem.
They seem fine as far as I know. I think it isn't that stable in my experience, but I'm not aware of them doing anything bad. The only other browser I've heard of being questionable (besides chrome/edge obviously) is waterfox where it got bought by an ad-oriented company but has supposedly stayed separate from the ad part of the business. Could be a long-term trap, I suppose, but a trap for like 0.01% of the browser market doesn't seem that useful.
I think the best part about Vivaldi is that it lets you put the tabs to the side, and also has a built-in ad-and-tracker-blocker, despite letting you install ad-block extensions (because Vivaldi is a Chromium browser). Seriously!
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Firefox is a sinking ship and Brave can suck my dick
Give us an alternative to FF and watch me sprint
there is none, unfortunately. the best you can do is Firefox forks. i use zen, some people use librewolf, but that doesn't change the fact that Mozilla is getting worse every day. idk how we can get past that other than having another whole ass foundation that invests in a new browser.
Tabs on side and adblock is all i care about. I wish firefox management was doing less harm to firefox, but it's still better than chrome.
That's why I use Vivaldi
Oh and this is my 666th comment here on this Lemmy instance, a lot more than Hexbear. Seriously!
From the Brave website:
Beyond this core engine, Brave has built in tons of custom features atop that open-source Chromium core:
- Built-in ad blocker
- YouTube ad blocker
- AI assistant
Yeah, no. I'll stick with LibreWolf.
Yeah. That's where I went. If AI is good enough - it should sell itself. All these browsers have plugins. I see no reason to bake it in unless there's an alteror motive.
Everyone's in a hurry to milk that AI cow... Its a shame about the taste tho.
Not to mention that the CEO of Brave is a homophobic bigot. Good enough for me to boycott as a cis het male.
load more comments
(6 replies)
Everybody sucks but you really should be cheering for Firefox in such a fight. Even now.
Yeah, it's strange that they are getting so much hate for an upcoming AI feature.. which will be easily able to be turned off.
Because they aren’t trusted. AI anything is not trusted. The concern is they will chip away at the ability to turn it off later like Google is doing with Gemini.
load more comments
(14 replies)
What search engine is that shit? Hiding full URLs in search results is completely unacceptable
If you want a low-drama setup: Firefox + uBlock Origin + tweak Enhanced Tracking Protection to ‘Strict’. Brave is solid too, but I’ve had a few sites act weird with the defaults.
Solidly mining crypto on your machine, correct.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Brave has crypto minded shit built in, and they “protect you” by running their own tracking network, so they can be the exclusive sellers of the data.
Fuck brave.
Saved your comment so I can quote it anytime I see somebody try to push Brave on someone else. It's like the Jehovah's Witnesses of browsers Istg.
load more comments
(9 replies)
My main criteria for a browser is not being Chrome or Chromium based.
This leaves my only options being Firefox and it's forks.
Or Microsoft Edge which stifles laughter I'm not gonna do.
Currently on Firefox but might give Librewolf a try.
Edit: I've been told Edge is also Chromium based now, the Firefox ecosystem really is the last holdout huh?
load more comments
(24 replies)
view more: next ›