It’s free on Linux. Still, I find it difficult to justify paying for a browser unless you want to directly support it.
Oh shit. Someone finally called my “I’d pay not to have to use AI” bluff.
Brave, and Brandon Eck are shit anyway, with or without AI.
Good news for me! I don’t have to pay since I don’t use brave at all. Yay me!
It’s so weird to me that people go nuts over Brave or Opera GX or whatever when Firefox and forks like Zen or LibreWolf are around and do their job so well.
Brave is a scam and not security or privacy
And yet, still recommended on PrivacyGuides
The number of things that started out good then became evil is insane.
It takes some a long time to admit it, just look at Google.
That’s what you get for using a broader called brave. We all knew we’d end up here.
They are endorsing linux, what a good company asking users to indirectly move to linux for their browser.
Free on Linux. But you should just use Firefox or its forks.
The fact that they have to charge $60 to not have all that crap in there should tell you everything about why they have that crap in there. Taking it out kills their revenue stream from their “free” fully-featured version.
Huh, funnily enough, Ive introduced my own $60 fee if they want me to read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy agreements that come along with their browser.
Thanks, but I’ll just stick to Firefox
Firefox+Betterfox is whatever brave is trying to do here, but free and open. Fuck brave and their scummy practices. Module isn’t perfect, but in comparison is clear.
Honestly I don’t hate that at all
If you really want to use a chromium-based browser, Vivaldi does all this and for free. It’s not bad, definitely a bit faster than firefox but that’s the nature of the beast for the web these days. I also like having my tabs on the side rather than the top. I think you can do that with Firefox via an extension, I’ll have to play around. But I much prefer using Firefox in my daily life
Vertical tabs is a built in function of FF. I think you just right click on a tab and there’s an option on the context menu to switch maybe?
Only since like last year, so it’s not a huge surprise someone would be unaware.
I wasn’t trying to belligerent, just informative. I might even be wrong, just riffing from memory.
Oh no, I didn’t take it that way. In fact your first sentence could very well be my reply back to you!
Vivaldi’s ad blocking is far worse. I’m not sure how they built it, but even after you disable the whitelists for their paying partners, it misses things Brave and uBO on Firefox don’t.
Vivaldi still supports Manifest V2, doesn’t it? So you should be able to put UBO on it as well.
While I’m not 100% sure about UBO, I’ve been happily running Ad-Nauseam (based on UBO) on Vivaldi since the Manifest V2 troubles. It does require jumping through a minor hoop, but if you’re tech savvy enough to use adblock, it won’t present you any trouble or take much time at all.
Unfortunately, no. Vivaldi followed in Chrome’s footsteps some time ago and disabled MV2 extensions. As far as I know, the only Chromium-based browsers that still have some access to MV2 are Edge, Brave, and Opera. Although there have been recent rumors that Opera also plans to follow suit and end support for MV2.
It seems that, over time, continuing to support MV2 on their own and against the grain of Chromium’s main development has become too much of a burden, and they’re gradually phasing it out anyway.
you don’t see a problem with giving money to cryptobros?
Brave is something I never wanted in the first place.
You can go into the settings and manually disable (nearly?) all the features that are removed in the paid version without paying anything. That’s what I did. They aren’t paywalling the ability disable the features.
It doesn’t matter to me whether someone uses Brave or not, but the headline is misleading, though pedantically accurate.
Gonna call it now: that 60 quid ‘one time’ purchase is not gonna be the end of it.
In, at most, a couple of years, one of these things will happen:
- the model will be switched to a monthly subscription
- features will be cut and sold separately
- ‘limited, non-targeted’ ads ‘from trusted partners’ will be introduced
- the thing will be buried completely because it’s not financially viable
That’s what one gets for installing US-tech. They invented enshittification and here we go.
Knew I was right to never even check brave out.
Don’t forget the “major” version increment that breaks “lifetime”.
- Oh, you’re mistaken. The license is for the lifetime of version 32. To use version 33 you must upgrade. But no rush, you have until version 33.1 before we activate the kill switch.
Or they rebrand it, and pull the “lifetime is only to the end of the product lifetime” trick.
