Made the switch from Firefox to Brave Browser after a couple of decades

[Atomicfog]

Wow, I'm making a thread.  This feels so retro.  So yeah, I'm not sure if you guys heard the news about firefox, but yeah, links below about how they don't care about privacy anymore. After two decades, it seems like it's time to switch it up I suppose.  I'm sure some many of you switched awhile back, but I never really liked chrome, and I used brave before, but it didn't do things how I wanted like firefox without manually adjusting it so I stuck with firefox.  

Why did I make this thread though? Because I remember I was literally here at OCR using internet explorer like basically everyone else when firefox came out. And I remember so fondly how hyped every was for it, and couldn't believe how cool tabbed browsing was. Everyone loved the logo as well and the vibe + everything about it.  There are even some old threads still around from the era with people here touting its perks. Firefox was the hip thing and also on another level compared to internet explorer. But yeah, I think a lot of the original threads may not be around and/or were in unmod iirc.  But I remember it all well -- what fun times those were.

Needless to say Brave is pretty good after some adjustments -- smooth scrolling (why is that off anyway?), hiding the number for blocked ads and such, and hiding the tacky basic attention token icon definitely felt necessary.  The only thing that I wish I could adjust it having a file menu -- not because I care about the file menu, but because I don't prefer to have my tabs at the very top of the screen.  I imagine nobody else cares about that, but if you know a work around for that without using a shady extension let me know. 

Anyhow, was fun to write a thread.  Forums are technically still > social media and discord in a lot of ways imo.

 

Also: https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1895249805338886591

Edited 15 hours ago by Atomicfog

[DarkeSword]

Hey just so you know, this whole "they don't care about privacy anymore" is 100% fucking nonsense. Mozilla does not say that they can use your data however they want. This is also part of the terms of literally any site you upload anything to; the service needs to say "you grant us the right to do things with your work so that our service can actually function." For example: uploading a picture to Bluesky? Bluesky asserts the right to transform your work so that they can generate a thumbnail of the picture you uploaded.

That's what these terms always mean. It's never about a service or a piece of software asserting ownership of your data. It's about you granting them a baseline level of permissions so that they can actually do the things you need them to do with the data you give them. This type of "company is stealing your work" scaremongering makes the rounds every few months in art communities and every single time someone has to clarify that companies are not stealing your work.

Mozilla is not claiming ownership of your work. Mozilla is not throwing privacy to the winds.

Instead of watching a clickbait video that perpetuates the same stupid misunderstandings, maybe go directly to the source and actually read what Mozilla has to say about it?

Also, Brave is the second-to-last browser you should be using (behind Chrome). Brave has engaged with scummy shit such as:

• Replacing ads on pages with its own ads and taking a cut
• Putting their own affiliate links in search suggestions
• Installing a VPN on Windows without notifying users
• Numerous partnerships with cryptocurrency firms

If you want a reliable browser that's not Firefox, there are plenty of options like Orion, Waterfox, Ungoogled Chromium, Arc, etc.

Brave is not it.

EDIT: But also just keep using Firefox.