I’m choosing a main browser, and I think that firefox with ublock and brave are probably equally good in terms of privacy and security, both of them look quite nice, and both are FOSS. The final thing that I’m considering is resource consumption. This reddit post shows that firefox is better than brave in benchmarks and ram consumption, but what about when firefox has ublock running and brave has all their preinstalled “extension” like brave rewards and wallet disabled (except brave shields is left enabled)?
Edit: some people are mentioning brave’s cryptocurrency. I don’t want to use that, and I would just turn it off and use brave as an improved chrome.
Just before all the Brave haters on this sub appear telling you Brave is crypto scam etc. - this is all based on lack of research and just blindly following headlines. You can turn off all the crypto features, Brave won’t force you to jump onto crypto train once you download the browser. They had some unfortunate accident of using affiliate links based on the page you’ve been visiting, but they quickly abandoned the idea. The way I see it is they want to somehow make money out of this as developing a browser is not a cheap undertaking. And yes, Brave is an ad company. But they’re trying to do all this in privacy-preserving way, somehow attempting to change how the ad business currently works on the web. However if you don’t wish to get any ads you can opt out (or just never opt in) of all this and enjoy good browser with good privacy defaults and built in adblocker. Brave is based on chromium though. Whether you wish to support chromium dominance on the web is your personal preference.
Yea no its still looking scam
Looks like a valid argument
“You can turn off X” is not a good enough excuse.
Once upon a time, I used to daily Edge when it was a pretty decent browser. But once it was handed over to the Bing team who started jerry-rigging garbage into it that was it for me. You could also “turn a lot of it off”, but that doesn’t help when new less-than-ideal features are introduced or setting it up on a new PC.
The default homepage on Edge alone is enough to make me never use Edge willingly.
I don’t know what that Bing/MSN abomination is but it’s reprehensible. It’s the most clickbait tabloid garbage I’ve ever seen. The fact that a company that makes hand over fist on enterprise is willing to sully their new browser with that fucking page makes me lose so much faith in humanity.
I know it’s an easily changed setting but there’s millions and millions of people that won’t change it at home or at work being exposed to that garbage.
I have to use Edge at work, and turned off all the BS. But Microsoft keeps coming up with new BS that they enable by default so every so often I have to waste time figuring out how to turn it off.
Actually know a few ex-Edge developers personally and it kills them seeing what Edge has now become. Opening it for the first time is just a tragic mess. It peaked around the Linux release and then slowly went downhill from there 😔
Shame.
Brave Rewards are turned off by default.
@mercan @ducky but the advertisements are not (new tab page)
True
It’s a scam and they pushing it pretty aggressively.
Have you ever used Brave?
I moved from Vivaldi to Brave and used it for some time.
You can turn it off but the fact it’s in there in the first place is a big red stop light.