Just mentioned how I didn't like people recommending this like last week and got "ok" as a response lol. Some people are just ignorant and don't care.

It's a for profit ad company making a "privacy first browser".

Thinking for literaly a second about that sentence should tell you all you need to know.

They also tried to get away with URL injection. Do not use Brave.

They added referrals to links you clicked. If there is one thing a browser should do its go to the link you click without modification.

I use Firefox. I know it's not perfect, but it's not that bad.

And if I didn't, I'd use Vivaldi. Only reason I don't is I do prefer open source whenever possible and, well, Firefox isn't Chromium.

Brave is just a shitty browser. Did not know they were anti-freedom kind of people. Makes browser no-no.

This:

https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

FWIW I remember a former colleague who recommended it to me and his argument was about the cryptocurrency you "earn" from it.

I asked him if he could withdraw it. I asked him if he tried. He said not yet but he would. He came back to me few days later saying something along the line that "it's not straightforward" which was a polite way to say he didn't manage yet. He worked in IT.

To be clear I'm not saying it's a scam or that one can't use the crypto "earned" from it but at least back then, few years ago, some people were just riding on the hope, or even faith, that it would amount to something yet it seemed made in such a way to just hold.

So... not a scam but not exactly empowering users IMHO.

Yeah it kinda mystifies me that anyone is still recommending that shitty bigotware.

In the emulation scene, RetroArch is in a similar boat if I'm understanding things correctly. Awful maintainers, but people keep recommending it and supporting it. Sucks too, because there are even fewer alternatives there.

I think a lot of pro-Brave people are astroturfers, or heavily influenced by astroturfers. They are definitely not a first choice by any privacy advocate worth their salt.

Also, the Brave defenders in this section… holy moly.

Some folks simply cannot admit they made a questionable choice. They picked it and use it, so everyone else must be wrong.

I’ve met people like this in real life.

I have been using Brave for its out of the box ad and tracker blocking. I'd been uncomfortable with the new AI features and had always been skeptical of the crypto integration, but it wasn't until this post that I realized it was appreciably worse than Firefox on those counts, nor how bad the people running it are.

Obviously, I'm now looking for other options. I've seen some good recs for desktop browsers elsewhere on this post, but what I'm not seeing is a lot of good mobile browser suggestions that will have the desired features. What would the folks here suggest for an e/OS browsing experience with similar or better privacy and ad blocking options? I know there's Firefox, but A. With all the AI it keeps pushing, I'm sure there has to be better and B. I do also have mobile Firefox but have found it substantially less usable for my habit of browsing with a zillion tabs both non-incognito and incognito, so I mostly had only been it when I couldn't get a video to play in Brave.

I am, obviously, willing to run de-Googled Chromium, but if something else is going to actually support 100+ tabs in a performant fashion I'd be happy to totally de-Chromium too.

I also use the shit out of profiles on Brave desktop, though mobile doesn't support it. Do the Firefox forks like Waterfox have a similar option on desktop? Does another browser? I know it's a feature Chrome has because I do sadly have to use Chrome for work, so I would expect at least the de-Googled Chromium-based ones would?

The minute I see that malware junk, I immediately uninstall it.

It's also a chromium browser.

Yeah, I used Brave for a few years. I made like $10-$40, but the popup ads were super annoying, especially as someone who uses 3 ad blockers. Not to mention the other issues... Not Worth It.

In recent history I've used Chrome -> Brave -> Firefox -> LibreWolf -> Floorp -> Midori... So far Midori is good but still testing.

Is there anything else with ad blocker for iOS?