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Good news! Brave for Android now let's u use your favorite uBlock Origin Blocklists!
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Don't use Brave.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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This is not a helpful comment ๐ give some reasons, don't expect people to simply listen to a statement of opinion.
Brave is notoriously dubious at best, encouraging ads and cryptocurrencies. It doesn't have any advantages over a hardened Firefox (and I would say even a basic one), so using it doesn't really make sense.
The problem is i would really love using Firefox but i need weird addons and Firefox just doesn't have them, for example chromegle
Oh look, the website is owned and maintained by a Brave employee.
Oh look, you're stupid and I don't mean this as a insult, is just fact. You can verify each of this points yourself. Also he worked before for Firefox and the Tor Project too, like he told Techlore in a Interview.
Fairly widely known. Doesnt change the data presented.
Owned by a Brave engineer, so of course brave looks better there. Do not trust that site.
You can verify each of this points yourself. Also he worked before for Firefox and the Tor Project too, like he told Techlore in a Interview.
Crypto buttons as an opt-out feature for every Reddit link.
Also this: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/18/brave-is-installing-vpn-services-without-user-consent/
If you still trust them, I have no hope for you.
That's good to see a comment with a link, that's what helps people make informed decisions, not simple statements of opinion.