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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser

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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser

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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Stop using Brave Browser
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    I see no reason to use any other browser than Firefox and maybe Librewolf.

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      So Mull browser, right?

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        Yeah top 4 browser are Firefox, librewolf, tor, and mullvad for sure.

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          mull and mullvad are at least two different things

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            Autocorrect so strong it turns your browser into a VPN

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              There is a Mullvad Browser.

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      Firefox on desktop is awesome. Firefox on mobile is painful.

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        Android firefox is ok now. Moreover now it supports add ons too and there are some good add ons there.

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          It’s a very small number of add-ons, but one of them is uBlock Origin, and that’s all I really want.

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            You can just change the list of supported add-ons to whatever you like.

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              Only if you tie your browser with an account at Mozilla. No way to do it without an account.

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                Only if you need your list. Otherwise you can just switch the list I’d to one including your extensions

            • 🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🇵🇸@lemmy.ml
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              Where can I change this list?

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                deleted by creator

              • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de
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                In the settings under “custom add-on list”. You might need to enter dev mode, which you do by tapping the Firefox logo in the about menu 5 times (you get a toast with your progress).

                After that you enter the userID ND the collection name in the popup and confirm.

                Details:

                https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extended-add-support

                And a reddit comment with a list you can use:

                https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/j1ta1s/comment/g720d72/

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                  Englis plss

                  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de
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                    Just read this a minute ago. It’ll get easier https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

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                    Sorry forgot to switch :D

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            If firefox gets more popular then maybe more add ons can appear…

            at least they support add ons like CHROME

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            deleted by creator

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          What’s wrong with Firefox on iOS? I realise it’s WebKit with a Firefox skin, but it seems to work well enough.

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          User interface is poor. Cannot customise the gui at all so I feel like it’s a downgrade over Samsung browser that also supports ad blocks.

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        It works pretty well for me, but I use Firefox nightly.

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      I am using Brave on iOS mainly because of its superb YouTube support - It has a built in ad block, can download videos offline and play minimized. Is there any way I can achieve this with any other browser? I would switch immediately.

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      I am forced to use Chromium on my work laptop because MS Teams doesn’t work (all the features) on Firefox.

      Edit: I should elaborate this a bit. There are 2 reasons why I use Chromium on my machine.

      1. If I face a problem, company tech team only knows Chrome and they start crying when I open Firefox.
      2. On Linux, the official way to use Teams is through a web-app and Firefox doesn’t support PWAs.

      All other MS services function fine on Firefox.

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        Which features I’ve never had an issue

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          Same. I use furefox for everything* at work, despite everything being heavily integrated with teams, sharepoint, et.al.

          *: The only thing that doesn’t work with firefox is this inhouse web service that hasn’t been updated since 2017. It’s about to be replaced anyway, so nobody bothered to fix/update it.

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          The custom background effects don’t work on Firefox

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          Simple one-to-one calling is disabled saying it’s only available on Chrome. I’m pretty sure it’s recent since I had calls a few months back on Firefox. I’m also sure that it’s not some group policy since I’m on Ubuntu without any sort of ActiveDirectory so it’s a pure browser issue. Also, they force the old UI in Firefox due to some reason. Typical BS from Microsoft.

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            Does changing user agent mitigate some of those issues?

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              In a just world, the fact of changing the user agent fixing the issues would make for a slam-dunk anti-trust case.

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                If you confront Microsoft with this, then they will say they don’t have enough resources to test “thousands” of browsers which is why they have restricted their efforts to Chromium only, while making billions of dollars in profits each year.

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                It really should, no doubt, but this is not a perfect world

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              I’ve tried it today and yeah, 1-to-1 calls magically/unsurprisingly start working. In fact, the whole UI gets a facelift and lots of new features.

              If I had to guess, I’d say Microsoft keeps around a version of their UI, which hasn’t been maintained in over a year, and serves that to anyone initiating communication with a user-agent string they don’t like.

              If that’s true, that’s a massive security vulnerability. Admittedly, also unsurprising for Microsoft. @xavier666@lemm.ee

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                Thanks a lot for this…time to get an extension.

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                Wow, that’s egregious on so many levels!
                This kind of browser apartheid should be illegal

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        I use Firefox as my primary browser and run the teams app.

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        they start crying when I open Firefox.

        Good. Use it anyway, and bathe in their tears!

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      Removed by mod

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        They claim to be decent, but it’s closed source so who knows…

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