[ncphil]

Totally personal preference, but not a fan of the Brave UI. At least from my perspective they (like Vivaldi and Edge) are trying too hard to distinguish themselves from the outward look and feel of Chromium. It's their right as a fork, and that of whoever finds it works for them. I'm not even bothered by (or much notice) the built-in crypto-based gamification. I just wish someone would do a minimalist fork of Chromium, maybe with a rudimentary sync service.

[bragr]

The gamification is a pretty out of date hot take now. They still have that crypto stuff, but they pivoted about a year ago to try to sell the built in VPN and get more value out of their search engine to raise revenue instead.

[baal80spam]

The best part is that right click is all it takes to hide the VPN and other stuff from the UI. I usually do it first thing after I install Brave and never see it again.

[LegitShady]

Honestly Firefox is way worse than brave in terms of intrusive stuff.

When Firefox updates I get full screen ads for their VPN and whatnot. Brave has never done anything like that to me. Hide the features you don’t want once, never see them again.

[Given_47]

Yea I found there were a lot more FF config settings to disable as well.

These threads always unfold the same way tho. Brave gets lambasted by some, the people that enjoy using Brave end up being “well actually” guys etc etc.

And I use both Brave and FF in addition to occasional librewolf they’re all useful

[jacooper]

And their search engine is actually pretty good

[rejectfinite]

I can just configure away the stuff I don't want on Brave? They have options for all the stuff, I turned these off/changed:

- Sponsored images

- Cards

- VPN button

- Wallet button

- Set shields to aggressive

- Brave rewards program and button in UI

- Turn off Autoplay

- Turn ON Snowflake

So it looks pretty clean but it is a lot of digging in menus. But I would rather have more settings than less.

[scrum-treats]

It's pretty great. I really like Brave.

[Given_47]

Actually did not kno about snowflake yet, so thanks for mentioning

[rejectfinite]

I heard about it from HN also!

They have extensions for other browsers too: https://snowflake.torproject.org/

[darklycan51]

My only real issues with Brave is 1)that when you have too many tabs open it starts stacking them elsewhere... and two, when I open settings they are terrible and I have to search Password manually to find saved passwords, but the way their UI works it first loads the password module and when I go to click it it loads something else and moves it around, it is annoying.

But the tab thing is the most breaking to me.

[soundnote]

Chromium has a flag to enable Firefox-style tab scrolling. Very useful if you're a chronic tab hoarded like moi.

Brave also has vertical tabs which are scrollable OOTB.

[soundnote]

You crashed?

https://i.imgur.com/LriOYog.png