give me 1 (one) reason to not use Brave - /g/ (#105680229) [Archived: 748 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:04:13 PM No.105680229
1734457155085133
1734457155085133
md5: 2e96774216cfaf3f32f29cc147d5df2b🔍
>privacy baked in
>adblocker baked in
>sleek design
>founder is based and white
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:07:05 PM No.105680245
It still uses chrome
Replies: >>105680263 >>105682561
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:09:21 PM No.105680259
>>105680229 (OP)
I ahve been using Bravo Browser for 14 years now, and there is no other Based Browser I would ever consider using. Thank you Based Big Brain Brendan Eich, for giving us the gifts or Brave Browser and Basic Attention Tokin.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:09:43 PM No.105680263
>>105680245
Chromium is FOSS
Replies: >>105681045 >>105688180 >>105688367
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:11:19 PM No.105680278
best firefox fork
best firefox fork
md5: 043a2f63dca1bcf25460d597690abca8🔍
>>105680229 (OP)
Replies: >>105685871
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:13:57 PM No.105680292
>>105680229 (OP)
chromium, and all the crypto bloat
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:32:29 PM No.105680410
>>105680229 (OP)
Buy an ad, tranny.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:59:19 PM No.105680624
1750556229678275
1750556229678275
md5: d697bb9c3c14147248219b81fe5c4ffd🔍
Because it uses manifest v3 which has been confirmed to be google telemetry hardware fingerprinting spyware and because Brave phones home to brave and google servesr to fingerprint you and there is no way to disable it.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:02:43 PM No.105680653
>>105680624
>random website with a 2008 style layout said it's spyware so it's spyware
Replies: >>105681052
sage
6/23/2025, 4:18:09 PM No.105680751
Pajeet browser. Buy an ad faggot.

/thread
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:57:07 PM No.105681025
>>105680229 (OP)
The only reason not to is if you don't want to, it comes down to what makes you happy =:3
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:58:21 PM No.105681039
>>105680229 (OP)
The 500 brave threads that have been made over the past three or four days is a completely inorganic behavior. Don't think we don't notice.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:59:26 PM No.105681045
>>105680263
Its not so
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:59:57 PM No.105681052
>>105680653
>I didn't get the information from CNN, therefore it's not trustworthy.
Replies: >>105696054
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:20:30 PM No.105681193
Brendan was right about convid
Brendan was right about convid
md5: 443ed0ed7ed8c125109a5ebfe01cb8f0🔍
>>105680624

https://privacytests.org/
Replies: >>105681265 >>105681302 >>105681323 >>105696988 >>105696999
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:21:45 PM No.105681199
1730061985990332
1730061985990332
md5: 082769fe2367996001e82d52bdb11ec7🔍
>>105680229 (OP)
>give me 1 (one) reason to not use Brave
constant shilling on /g/ makes me suspicious
Replies: >>105687273
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:29:28 PM No.105681265
>>105681193
Imagine citing the website made by someone who works for Brave as a source for Brave's superiority.
Replies: >>105687925
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:33:39 PM No.105681302
>>105681193
Braves bug tracker has multiple fingeprinting bugs open since 2016 which individually are enough to identify 90%+ of users uniquely with just each of these identifiers. Add on to that the intentional randomisation of some very specific APIs they do and Brave is easier to track than stock Chrome on Windows

Since I know you got no clue what the hell any of this means take an example:
Brave "fakes" the Canvas Api by adding garbage into its output. That alone puts you into a batch of users that fake their canvas output (which likely is less than 0.01% of users). Now add to that identifiable vectors that Chrome (and Brave) cannot hide (like CSS queries indicating ui element size content size fonts or whatever) and you are easier to track with brave than if you just used vanilla chrome.

Theres a huge body of academia explicitly showing why Canvas blockers and addons like adnauseam are worse for privacy and it is also why Tor explicitly tells you not to install addons (not even adblockers).
Replies: >>105681318 >>105681323 >>105687932
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:35:10 PM No.105681318
>>105681302
You're trying to talk reason into a person who is using a source from inside brave to prove brave. Stop wasting your breath
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:35:40 PM No.105681322
1739996617725
1739996617725
md5: 57465614484a2a593644928e67d97c60🔍
>>105680229 (OP)
>give me 1 (one) reason to not use Brave
It's a crypto shill browser
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:35:40 PM No.105681323
>>105681193
>>105681302
>Brendan in 2016: "hahaha we can just fix these bugs chrome is just c code"
>Brendan in 2028: "what bugs?" (Issues still open with no progress whatsoever)
Whoever uses Brave should not wonder why their browsing history appears in the Mumbai journal
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:37:43 PM No.105681338
>>105680229 (OP)
I liked Brave but it started logging me out of websites so I had to go back to Firefox
Replies: >>105682324
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 7:47:51 PM No.105682324
>>105681338
Disable EasyList Cookie
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 7:48:54 PM No.105682331
>>105680229 (OP)
>privacy baked in
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG8ZMWS9tjg
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 8:15:15 PM No.105682561
>>105680245
fpbp
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 8:18:50 PM No.105682585
>>105680229 (OP)
Buy an ad
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 8:54:17 PM No.105682888
They hijack url's to put they crypto referrals in them.
That disqualifies any argument for this piece of shit browser.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 8:55:41 PM No.105682904
>>105680229 (OP)
Sir, since you are a streetshitter. You are SUPPOSED to use Brave.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:17:23 AM No.105684967
>>105680229 (OP)
I would honestly use it if it wasn't for all the crypto faggotry.
>inb4 you can dis-ACK!!!
I don't trust brave guys with not abusing that thing. they already had at least one affiliate scandal.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:18:31 AM No.105684976
1724794296405
1724794296405
md5: cdd6b8e23e70323c9ee095ba857d879e🔍
spyware
Replies: >>105685138
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:40:41 AM No.105685115
>>105680229 (OP)
>founder is based and white
And gets caught every few months fucking over his user base too; crypto ads, secretly switching affiliate links to make money (and track you). Cuck behavior to idolize a guy trying to fuck you over again and again.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:45:36 AM No.105685133
I do use Brave but purely because the built-in ad blocking works superb. the whole browsers appears - at least to me - polished. fast too. I don't care about privacy and the whole crypto trash howeverthoughdoebeit
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:46:21 AM No.105685138
>>105684976
I kept saying this on 4chan in 2021 and all these fucking shills ignored me like I was stupid
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:46:03 AM No.105685871
>>105680278
Isn't that the Lutris logo?
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 8:10:54 AM No.105687273
>>105681199
i started shilling for free cause anons keep complaining about ads and i tell themi dont see any ads on brave
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:04:39 AM No.105687925
>>105681265
imagine not realizing their benchmark tool is open source and can be downloaded for replication.
kek
Replies: >>105687935
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:06:05 AM No.105687932
>>105681302
prove it. post the active bugs
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:06:24 AM No.105687935
>>105687925
Imagine misusing the term benchmark and trying to refute bias that way
Replies: >>105687938
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:07:35 AM No.105687938
>>105687935
make an argument
Replies: >>105687940 >>105687943
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:08:28 AM No.105687940
>>105687938
Not everything is an argument. Learn to not take every single interaction in your life as some form of combat. Have a good day.
Replies: >>105687954
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:08:54 AM No.105687943
>>105687938
They made the tools and can make it portray Brave in a positive light. Can you read the source code? No? Then it being open source means nothing.
Replies: >>105687954
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:11:49 AM No.105687954
>>105687940
>enters thread about brave
>posts disinformation
>is refuted
>cries like a bitch
alright then.
>>105687943
>portray
Its up to you to decide if those features brave has makes it worth it to you, but many of those green checkmarks are defarbling techniques other browsers dont have. brave isnt perfect, but it's doing a really good job at keeping up with chrome and leaving firefox behind in many aspects
Replies: >>105687962
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:12:55 AM No.105687962
>>105687954
Or the discussion is over. I didn't read your post. You can quit replying now because I'm going to hide your replies since you seem to angrily want to have a back and forth.
Replies: >>105687974
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:15:06 AM No.105687973
void linux doesn't package brave so I still use firefox, I have no issues with firefox anyway
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:15:10 AM No.105687974
>>105687962
Interesting deflection, narcissist.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:32:18 AM No.105688062
>>105680229 (OP)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/newspapers-ad-blocking-brave-browser-is-illegal-deceptive

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/5475

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/a8d34y/youtuber_tom_scott_claims_that_brave_is_falsely/

https://beincrypto.com/youtuber-lashes-out-at-brave-for-receiving-bat-donations-in-his-name-without-his-consent/

https://cryptonews.net/news/security/71718/
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/this-popular-browser-caught-injecting-affiliate-codes-in-crypto-urls-71591610043600.html

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caught-adding-its-own-referral-codes-to-some-cryptcurrency-trading-sites/

https://community.brave.com/t/why-is-brave-showing-advertisements-on-home-page-background-photos/137913

https://www.makeuseof.com/change-brave-wallpaper/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-browser-leaks-onion-addresses-in-dns-traffic/

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/02/22/brave-browser-tor-mode-exposed-dark-web-activity/

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/02/22/brave-browser-was-exposing-addresses-in-tor-mode-for-months

https://osxdaily.com/2022/10/29/how-to-disable-sponsored-wallpaper-image-ads-in-brave-browser/

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/17b0pxl/brave_appears_to_install_vpn_services_without/

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/18/brave-is-installing-vpn-services-without-user-consent/

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/browsing/brave-browser-is-installing-a-vpn-without-your-permission

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/28-sunsetting-strict-fingerprinting-mode/

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/22/brave-browser-strict-fingerprinting-protection-will-be-removed/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brave-to-end-strict-fingerprinting-protection-as-it-breaks-websites/
Replies: >>105688333
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:54:00 AM No.105688180
>>105680263
>Google hegemony on the web is not so bad because, uh, they release the code under an OSS licence, OK?
Useful idiot
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:24:17 AM No.105688333
>>105688062
unironically fake news.
Replies: >>105688376
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:29:14 AM No.105688367
>>105680263
It's also a ram hog
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:30:52 AM No.105688376
>>105688333
Unironically stop shilling malware, you street-shitting retard.
Replies: >>105688484
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:53:57 AM No.105688484
>>105688376
suggest a better alternative
Replies: >>105688495 >>105688519
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:56:29 AM No.105688495
>>105688484
Define better
Replies: >>105688803
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 12:02:24 PM No.105688519
>>105688484
Firefox, Vivaldi, ungoogled chromium, fucking internet explorer is better than this lazy crypto-scam. Those subhuman scabs at /biz/ think they prop up BAT by shilling this trash here, it never works.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 12:49:39 PM No.105688803
>>105688495
>firefox
slow.
>vivaldi
deprecated
>ungoogled chromium
not that secure https://qua3k.github.io/ungoogled/
>internet explorer
now youre being disingenous.
Replies: >>105689760 >>105697044
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:10:35 PM No.105689760
>>105688803
Are you going to define the word better or are you just going to go off on random nonsense rants
Replies: >>105693303
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 6:43:39 PM No.105691669
>>105680229 (OP)
They won't add JPEG XL support unless Google does.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:06:57 PM No.105691852
>>105680229 (OP)
cryproscam
honeypot
dataminer
Replies: >>105691857
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:08:10 PM No.105691857
>>105691852
forgot to add botnet
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:09:20 PM No.105691869
>>105680229 (OP)
It's trash. There's your reason, now fuck off.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:00:08 PM No.105693303
>>105689760
im not the anon youre talking to, retard.
Replies: >>105693308
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:00:39 PM No.105693308
>>105693303
I dont care
Replies: >>105693313
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:01:09 PM No.105693313
>>105693308
take a look through here to see why its better, retard.
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)
Replies: >>105693320
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:02:05 PM No.105693320
>>105693313
No thanks I dont care
Replies: >>105693326
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:02:43 PM No.105693326
>>105693320
i accept your concession, retard
Replies: >>105693328
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:03:11 PM No.105693328
>>105693326
Whatever ends this conversation
Replies: >>105693486
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:15:44 PM No.105693429
Librewolf and mullvad exist, both are superior even in the image the brave shills themselves use to dispute FFs superiority.
Yeah stock FF is shit, but I wouldn't use that anyways, not without adding on user.js from arkenfox project or switching to a vastly superior fork.

If you're lazy and or too retarded to DIY, use brave.
Replies: >>105693597
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:23:47 PM No.105693486
>>105693328
good, retard.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 10:36:45 PM No.105693597
>>105693429
What do you use
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:16:35 PM No.105693951
>>105680229 (OP)
It doesnt let you customize, with ublock I can block anything I want, create scripts, automate task.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:18:27 AM No.105694513
>>105680229 (OP)
Makes you gay.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 3:49:04 AM No.105695940
1735469302391024
1735469302391024
md5: 0582e36da97bf6a883eaefdc5e5c00d9🔍
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:06:07 AM No.105696018
>>105680229 (OP)
constant shilling, no feature like firefox multiaccount containers
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:15:05 AM No.105696054
>>105680624
>>105681052
>shows random image
>like a zoomer faggot, is too lazy to share information
Replies: >>105696061
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:16:23 AM No.105696061
>>105696054
>doesnt say what he means
>gets nowhere
This is your fault
Replies: >>105696105
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:27:05 AM No.105696105
>>105696061
>tires to change topic
>fails
>still doesn't post the url

I'd suggest stopping, you'll get owned with ease.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:33:56 AM No.105696445
not possible on chromium
not possible on chromium
md5: 5a21c352bd74d382afdb0e21abfd7a80🔍
I avoid Chromium mainly not for ideological reasons, but because I find it to be very locked down and customization-unfriendly.

For example on Safari there is an option to adjust for how long the browser should remember history, the default being 1 year, and you can set it to remember all. On Chromium it is hard-coded to be stuck at 90 days, there is no way to change it. On Firefox it depends on the total items/size of the history file instead of the time passed, with the maximum number calculated based on your PC specs. Both settings on Safari and Firefox are much saner than "90 days no matter what" on chromium.

On Firefox I can open about:config and tweak whatever I want down to the total pages to be remembered in the go back/go forward list. There is nothing like that on Chromium and whenever I tweak something on its equivalent, chrome://flags, every time I have to relaunch the browser to see the effects, much more cumbersome.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 7:20:35 AM No.105696988
>>105681193
there's no privacy browser. you will get fingerprinted up the walls on each one. but having google know your fingerprint and link it to an identity is far worse than having chess.com fingerprint you.

tor is the only somewhat private but i can be easly fingerprinted with font queries
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 7:22:11 AM No.105696999
>>105681193
meaningless stat. you shouldn't be using a single browser. anyway. I have 3 to 5 browsers always installed for different activities
Replies: >>105699453
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 7:29:27 AM No.105697044
>>105688803
>not that secure https://qua3k.github.io/ungoogled/
does this apply to chromium too? i dont want to install proprietary chrome but i dont care about meme conections to google that can be disabled in settings.

i use chromium as a snap
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 8:03:41 AM No.105697254
>>105680229 (OP)
Remove the fucking laser purple shit theme from incognito and I'll consider it.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 8:18:12 AM No.105697336
>>105680229 (OP)
no real UI/UX customization like Vivaldi (which has a million options plus custom CSS)
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:05:30 AM No.105697559
>>105680229 (OP)
are you fucking underaged? they were caught years ago
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:44:40 AM No.105697735
>>105680229 (OP)
how about 9 reasons
>Way back in 2016, Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners
>In the same year, CEO Brendan Eich unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list
>In 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent
>In 2020, Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites
>Also in 2020, they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: "the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression." Further requests were ignored (immediately closed)
>In 2021, Brave's TOR window was found leaking DNS queries, and a patch was only widely deployed after articles called them out
>In 2022, Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages
>In 2023, Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users' computers without their consent
>In 2024, Brave gave up on providing advanced fingerprint protection, citing flawed statistics (people who would enable the protection would likely disable Brave telemetry)
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 10:00:50 AM No.105697843
It's funny how the thread is full of information about how much of a scam Brave is, but the pajeets they pay to promote it still need to keep it bumped on the catalog because that's their job.
Replies: >>105697866
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 10:04:39 AM No.105697866
>>105697843
Brave has problems with it but it's the best chromium browser to date. Firefox is too slow.
Replies: >>105698245
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 11:10:02 AM No.105698245
>>105697866
>best chromium browser
>world's most polished turd
doesn't mean much
Replies: >>105698312
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 11:21:43 AM No.105698312
>>105698245
vertical tabs, sponsorblock, dearrow, ublock origin, adblock works, good ios client
Replies: >>105698406
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 11:24:40 AM No.105698327
>>105680229 (OP)
>>founder is based and white
chud babble
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 11:38:51 AM No.105698406
>>105698312
>vertical tabs, sponsorblock, dearrow, ublock origin, adblock works
works on librewolf too
>good ios client
I'm not an inigger mutt, doesn't matter to me
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:02:59 PM No.105698529
>>105680624
This image is from a cringe geocities website that has been debunked a thousand times.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:20:46 PM No.105698637
1729270264944549
1729270264944549
md5: bd8ced11c8eeba7ec70f84fe732af383🔍
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 2:35:03 PM No.105699453
>>105696999
based identification-through-correlation dodger