I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever.

Brave was already ousted as spyware in the past and the company has made many decisions that are questionable at best. For example, Brave made a cryptocurrency which they then added to a rewards program that is built into the browser to encourage you to enable ads that are controlled by Brave.

After creating this cryptocurrency and rewards program, they started inserting affiliate codes into URL’s. Prior to this they had faked fundraising for popular social media creators.

Do these decisions seem like ones a company that cares about their users (and by extension their privacy) would make? I’d say the answer is a very clear no.

One last thing, Brave illegally promoted an eToro affiliate program, making (presumably) thousands of dollars off their users.

    • RandomLegend [He/Him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      If someone can help me fix a major issue I have with Firefox I’d love to switch.

      I heavily use the per-application sound volume in pipewire on my Linux PC.

      Firefox will reset whatever volume I have set as soon as I pause a video and resume it a couple seconds later.

      I have a deej board and use that to control the application volumes.

      Firefox makes it simply unusable for me…its a known bug and Mozilla just doesn’t give a fuck…