[mynameyeff]

What are your qualms with Brave Browser?

[freehorse]

At the very least, I do not trust a browser that was putting affiliate links to unsuspecting users' urls [0]. Plus I tbh I am really sick of everything tending to be chromium-derivatives nowadays and I think it is good to have greater diversity, to exactly avoid situation susch as the one here.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10134

[kbelder]

If you research all the controversies around Brave, I think they pretty much amount to nothing. Just some people holding grudges.

But the complaint that it's a reskinned Chrome and will be forced to eventually adopt most of Chrome's user-hostile changes is a real concern.

[rascul]

I'm not convinced that it's much more than a Chrome skin with an integrated crypto scam.

[IronRod]

I've used Brave for years. Never used any of the crypto features. It is just a solid, privacy-based, chromium-based browser.

[bufferoverflow]

You don't have to use the crypto features.

[Meph504]

when the defense of a project is that you can turn off the bad features, you aren't really making a chase better than say chrome or anything else.

A product built on trust, shouldn't involve having to go turn off untrustworthy elements.

[bufferoverflow]

You don't need to turn off "bad features". Just don't use them. Just like the rest of the browser features you don't use, which there are many of.

[Ageodene]

You don't need to "turn off the bad features" because they are opt-in to begin with.

[satvikpendem]

I shouldn't need to opt into or out of features that shouldn't exist in the first place, much less in a browser.

[Spivak]

You're scraping the paint off with how far you're dragging the goalposts.

Brave has a weird crypto thing, it's on not by default, it's not pushed on you, I don't even know how to turn it on.

Firefox right now today has ads in the URL bar. I'm using Waterfox to avoid all Mozilla's garbage but Brave is up near the top of least shitty.

[lelanthran]

> when the defense of a project is that you can turn off the bad features, you aren't really making a chase better than say chrome or anything else.

> A product built on trust, shouldn't involve having to go turn off untrustworthy elements.

This is very misleading! You don't "turn off" bad features in Brave. You have to explicitly turn them on. By default it's off.

Just like how you don't have to visit dodgy sites in Chrome; you have to take action to visit dodgy sites.

Same with Brave - you don't have to do any crypto stuff; you have to put in extra work and effort to do the crypto stuff.

[mynameyeff]

The crypto part isn’t something you turn off. It’s buried in a menu somewhere. For all intents and purposes, it’s a pretty elegant UX.