Edge has been my favorite for awhile, but I have always wanted to look at something less intrusive. I just tried Brave out today because someone mentioned it stole the Edge vertical tab implementation, which is one of my must-have features from Edge. So far I'm liking it and it supports all the extensions I was using. I can't speak to the cite tools or collections as I didn't use them, but Brave seems to have an immersive reader mode called Speedreader though.

EDIT: Okay fine, I removed Brave after a day with all this information below. I would love to switch back to Firefox at some point so hopefully they steal the vertical tabs soon.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave has a lot of its own intrusive stuff, I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole

[–] saegiru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate? I was not aware.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire-for-alleged-sale-of-copyrighted-data/491854/#:~:text=Brave%20is%20alleged%20to%20sell,transparency%20in%20the%20tech%20industry.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

https://www.lifewire.com/brave-browser-falls-short-of-its-promises-of-privacy-5206799

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3284076/brave-browser-begins-controversial-ad-repeal-and-replace-tests.amp.html

They keep pulling a bunch of shady stuff, I would seriously avoid that browser

[–] Gork@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The first time I heard about Brave it sounded sketchy. They replaced ads on websites with their own ads. That doesn't seem ethical to me since they aren't in the normal advertising chain of relationships where the website owner has an agreement with that specific advertising firm to display ads. Brave gets the revenue instead of the website owner, while the website displays content that they didn't agree to. And the user has no say.

Very sketch.

And that they say they are sooo focused on privacy when everything that they do seems to indicate otherwise.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Brave's business model is essentially a protection racket wrapped in a crypto scam.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Brave is a shitty browser. Lol

Its one thing is built in adblocker

But how hard is it to install ublock origin in edge? (Answer: it isnt)

Librewolf has it preinstalled too. Nobody talks about that. (Its basically privacy focused firefox)