What's wrong with Brave browser?

https://lemmy.world/post/40893728

What's wrong with Brave browser? - Lemmy.World

I use it because it has a built in adblocker, and well it just works. There is some crypto bullfuck and AI shit you can easily opt out off, and some talk about some CEO making homophobic comments.

Ahh yes. Brave the bloated browser with very dodgy behaviour. You get a chrome fork with crypto shit, leaky VPN, ridiculously bad search, and a full blown ad engine that hijacks your notifications and tracks you in an ‘anonymized’ way. FUCK.THAT.SHIT.

Not to be antagonistic, but

  • chrome fork - much of the browser world is this
  • crypto shit - opt in not mandatory
  • leaky VPN - opt in not mandatory
  • bad search - opt in not mandatory
  • ad engine - opt in not mandatory

So, basically, it’s a chrome fork, and some people prefer chrome based browsers, so it’s purely preference?

You know what’s better than that?

The browser world that’s not a chrome fork, and not full of crypto and AI SHIT

Waterfox, Librewolf, Ironfox, Fennec, Ladybird, etc

The point is, that’s a preference, not an innate ‘better,’ I generally use librewolf myself, but when the list of ‘problems’ with the browser is a set of optional things that you specifically have to turn on to experience, it’s kind of like saying pizza is bad because you don’t like pineapple, banana peppers, black olives, and chile flakes.
It’s more akin to saying Hitler Pizza is bad because it was called by Hitler, tbh
That’s not how pizza quality works. You wouldn’t eat a pizza with literal shit all over it and call it good because it was made by a saint.
Metaphor my dude. Metaphor
Not a good metaphor, though.