Brave will not add Web Integration support

3 years ago by mrmanager to c/technology

I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.

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not2betruffledwith 79 points 3 years ago

Had been using Brave for 4 years. Switched from it to Firefox after the Google DRM news came out. Firefox is awesome!

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Psythik 24 points 3 years ago

I never liked Brave. The whole "allow ads to get awards" thing doesn't sit right with me. The only adblockers that do that are the ones that are in bed with the ad companies. Firefox with UBlock Origin and NoScript is all you need.

(I mean, there are other good addons for privacy as well, but it's easy to go down a rabbit hole and next thing you know you have 30 different extensions installed and websites are breaking. Then you have to start disabling things one-by-one until you find the culprit. Setting your security settings in FF to "Strict" and using those two addons should be good enough without going overboard.)

Edit: only thing that sucks about Firefox is that it still doesn't support HDR and RTX Video Super Resolution yet, so in the meantime I use the "Open in Chromium" browser extension when I'm watching videos on YouTube, so that they display properly with all the enhancements.

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voluble 5 points 3 years ago

I like NoScript exactly for the rabbit hole it opens! Now I'm very aware of what scripts are running on which pages! Actively blocking blatant ad scripts & data scraping scripts makes me feel good.

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GentooPhysicist 2 points 3 years ago

I'm an avid YouTube watcher on Firefox. What does HDR and RTX Video Super Resolution do?

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Hamartiogonic 16 points 3 years ago

When Google chrome was released in 2008, I read about it in a tech magazine and it described how much it’s going to be spying on you. I was immediately put off by it, and decided not to install it. At the time I wondered why would anyone ever install this junk. Oh boy, was I in for a surprise! Pretty much everyone installed it, and within the next 10 years chrome had become the most popular browser.

Obviously, I never switched from FF.

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DogMuffins 11 points 3 years ago

Imagine if everyone started using a browser made by an advertising company, such that they pretty much had complete control of the way we use and view the web.

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CrypticCoffee 1 point 3 years ago

Hello fellow Firefox lifer. It's been awesome!

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elscallr 10 points 3 years ago

Made the same switch on my phone recently.

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mrmanager 16 points 3 years ago

Make sure to install plugins like ublock origin. Firefox still supports this and a few other plugins on mobile, like Bitwarden etc.