WeLoveCastingSpelzBrave fork without crypto crap?
poVoqSo Chromium?
Just use Firefox, its the better browser anyways.
BrikoXBrave might have started as a basic Chromium fork, but the various privacy/security features they added do make them standout now.
But they still contribute to google's monopoly over web standards.
Almost all of my Linux devices have both chromium-browser and Firefox installed. Firefox is my default, but there are some apps put there that work a lot better in something chromium-based.
xavier666Aye Firefox gang š¦š¤
I already use Firefox but brave is just better at fingerprinting protection
BigTechBlows Are you claiming Chromium is a fork of Brave?
All of the crypo crap can be turned off in settings.
Double_AAnd the setting really does work. The cap is completely gone afterwards. There is no grayed out symbols, or nag screens or anything.
Bromite used to be great, but unfortunately the dev seems to have abandoned it.
I've seen people talking about Mull, Mulch, Fulguris and a couple others. I think Mulch is tied to a specific Android ROM, and the others are Firefox forks.
pootriarchi left a big comment regarding this in another thread, TL;DR combination of brave on desktop and a lot of non-brave things on android, privacy browser + mull + DDG
What FOSS browsers, do you use on a daily basis on both your mobile and computer for privacy and security, and what measures have you taken to further harden your browser (if any). - PopTalk
Me, I have a low threat model so I mainly try to stay away from proprietary stuff when possible (Chrome, Edge ect) I use an eclectic mix of browsers. I use Vivaldi (I know itās not entirely FOSS but I like the customizability of it), for my amnesiac browsers I use Firefox Focus on Android, and LibreWolf on PC, and for when I want as much anonymity as possible I use Tor with Orbot active routing traffic to Switzerland. I used to use Brave Browser a lot because I like the user interface but I kinda got turned off by all the crypto stuff theyāve been peddling. And as far as I know, Bromite hasnāt been updated in quite some time (please elighten me if Iām wrong about that Iāve been out of the loop for a while) , and I was weirded out by the developerās statement āIāll get around to it sometime.ā Mull is great but very slow to search imo, when I search for something it takes a long time to load. Or it takes a long time to load a website. It could be internet speed but other browsers work just fine,and Iāve tested Mull on other WiFis. I sometimes also use DuckDuckGo but the search results are so bad that I just find myself searching google to find what I want. No offensive if anyone uses those I personally just havenāt found much use out if them. So what browsers do you use for privacy and security? Edit: Sorry for the long post and edited for clarity.
I wouldn't want Brave on anything myself. The company has proven it isn't trustworthy many times over.
i agree, but my unpopular opinion is that mozilla has also proven this repeatedly, with nothing and nobody being universally better. privacy people love firefox, but i spend a lot of time with each major versionās release notes figuring out how to undo the new telemetry (increasing integration with pocket, firefox suggest, location that wonāt turn off).
my threat model is ātheyāre all evil, including mozillaā, so there are additional rings around everything
I use fennec as my regular browser on android and mulch as the webview implementation
fenndevAs a heads up, I believe Fennec is the old codebase for Firefox and it's no longer being actively maintained AFAIK.
Unless, of course, you're using the Fennec Browser built by F-Droid, which is confusingly based on the new Fenix codebase.
I use the one from fdroid it does get updated often enough
It's here now https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools
I literally saw a link in a thread on the OGās github earlier today, sounds like this will be my new switch.
Although Iām still going to give Mulch a try, with a ROM that has it integrated into webview.
DivestOS is the only Android ROM I know of that integrates the Mulch webview. But Tad (DivestOS dev) also builds standalone binaries of Mulch that can be installed independently- just add their repo into f-droid or something like droidify and youāre good to go.
Link [divestos.org/fdroid/official]
VertelleusLooks like Brave is the best for privacy over all.
https://privacytests.org/
https://privacytests.org/
yup thats the reason I wanna switch to it but damn wish there was a good fork that removed the bloat
Never trust anything that comes anywhere near crypto. Firefox with the Electronic Frontier Foundation's privacy badger plugin and a good adblocker is the way to go. https://privacybadger.org/
r7vil50jWhy is crypto so bad? Please explain.
Why not use Librewolf? Fork of Firefox, hardened and resists fingerprinting. Scores pretty damn well on https://privacytests.org and pairs well with Mull on Android.
AFAIK there are no actively developed Brave forks.
I use librewolf on my work laptop it removes all cookies every time you close it, this wouldnāt be a problem on mobile as I already set my phone browser(fennec) to do that but on my personal computer it crosses the border from I can deal with it to too inconvenient
And there won't be because brave doesn't like it when someone forks the browser.
zlatiahIf fingerprint protection is what I want, LibreWolf comes with a very sensible default as compared to stock Firefox. If I am familiar enough with about.config and stuff then hardened Firefox can reach bonkers levels of privacy as well
If a Chromium-based browser is required that has Brave's level of privacy protection but none of the crypto nonsense... Yeah I'm not aware of any as of right now. Maybe once the Duckduckgo Browser becomes available?
well all the signs are pointing to librewolf I prefer gecko engine to chrominum, gonna give it a try
deFrisselleNever noticed the crypto stuff Donāt use it
Also, I use Vivaldi
firefox with betterfox user.js is my recommendation
Maybe you can try ungoogled-chromium
Mario BariÅ”aAt that point just use Firefox / Librewolf, os just turn off all of the brave rewards crap ( crypto )ā¦
You can just disable it in settings, fairly easily. This is preferable to searching for an obscure fork of brave (for me personally).