Artix doesn't use systemd, iirc

I'm a big NewPipe fan, but took your suggestion to check out PipePipe. Looks good so far since it only needs 8 permissions but NewPipe needs 11. Installing now.

Edit: It even has two more default platforms to chose from. Yeah, this is cool! Thanks!

I do use PipePipe, but I recommend NewPipe since the former is merely a fork that cannot survive without the latter.

Still a proprietary black box you shouldn't trust and chromium based so you reinforce the chromium monopoly

Just use Firefox with uBlock Origin and PrivacyBadger.

Here's a good summary of some of the shady practices that they've done by way of @cannedtuna@lemmy.world. It's a summary of this article: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

• Brendan Eich's anti-LGBTQ+ political involvement

• • Brendan Eich donated to anti-LGBT political organizations, politicians, and initiatives such as CA Prop 8 which banned same-sex marriages.

• 2016 — Brave Browser promises to replace webpage ads

• • Brave promised to replace ads with privacy friendly ads that would actually pay publishers and even users with a volatile cryptocurrency while keeping a cut for themselves. This never actually came to life and was criticized as "blatantly illegal".

• 2018 — Brave runs a questionable donation campaign

• • Brave collected donations for popular content creators without actually involving or seeking consent from said creators. In short they accepted donations in crypto for creators, but would only pay out if it reached a minimum value of $100. When called out, Brave said refunds were impossible.

• 2020 — Brave injects referral links when visiting crypto wallets

• • Brave injected their own referral links for services such as Binance without informing users or asking permission.

• 2020 — Brave puts ads in user's home screens

• • Brave turned their home screen image rotator into a place to serve ads, many of which were suspicious or crypto related.

• 2021 - Brave ships an insecure Tor feature

• • Brave added a Tor feature which exposed users DNS requests

• 2023 - Brave hides their crawlers to websites

• • Brave refuses to disclose their crawler bot to websites since many websites want to block Brave Search. Brave will only chose not to crawl a website if it also blocks Google's crawler.

• 2024 - So-called "privacy browser" deprecated advanced fingerprinting protection

• • Brave removed a the Strict, Block Fingerprinting privacy feature from their browser.

• And More!

• • Brave paid for targeted ads for users searching for Firefox in the Play Store and ran a campaign to "Forget the Fox". When called out on this the VP publicly denied it and claimed it was photo-shopped.
• • The VP of Brave, Luke Mulks, frequently posts about all things crypto, from NFTs to FTX, and uses AI-gen images to promote them. He also frequently re-tweets right-wing activists.
• • Brendan Eich's feed also frequently contains right-wing content and Republican propaganda despite his claims to be "independent".

It includes a lot of crypto bullshit, and I believe the founder is a right wing weirdo, but don’t quote me on that.

To also point out the good stuff: their browser has some pretty good anti-fingerprinting and privacy measures build in.

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

I don't know why you are getting downvoted for asking a question. I think if Brave is malware, it is important to bring awareness to what the actual problems are and talk about it. This is the right place. I'm not aware of anything that makes Brave malware, maybe besides the crypto stuff. But I'm not sure if that counts as malware, or if anything else is going on I'm not aware of.

Sadly not.

I've found NewPipe to be a good YT alternative for Grayjay.

Oh. I had no idea it was a commercial venture. I thought it was just another FOSS team. Just found the keyboard the other day and it's been far better than Fossify.

I installed Heliboard last night and the autocorrect only works half the time with settings set to always on and force. Yeesh...

You're right, "Futo" kind of sounds like that slur. What a good joke.

Yes and no, it use affiliate links and search engines (DDG, Startpage, Ecosia...) which pay some money if you use these, but you can delete these without problems if not. Vivaldi use this to create incommings, instead of selling user data and browser logs to third parties as other do. Fingerprints, well, it protects some fingerprints which are an privacy risk, but spoofing all can break some webs. Fingerprint protection is always an balance between what is necessary (eg. tecnical data to show correctly a page, eg your screen resolution) and what is not. Your Public IP is always shown in any browser, if you don't use an VPN (Proton VPN inbuild in Vivaldi) or Proxy, but the public IP only show the one of the server used by your ISP which can be hundreds of km from your real location, but it made that the page is shown in your lenguage (if it has this feature). If a website use Fingerprinting (not often), it use those from the whole device and OS, not only from the browser. Vivaldi never logs your activity or track you, never share your data with third parties, no third party sponsors in Vivaldi. Sync is encrypted end2end, no knowledge (if you loose your encryption password, you loose your sync data!!!). stored in own servers in Iceland (green energy). IMHO Vivaldi is pretty private.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/shared-networks-tracking-fingerprinting/

Thats sad, sorry, but Filen probably will work, also Murena