It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
  • imjustmsk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    7 hours ago

    I don’t think an average person would listen to me if I instructed them to get rid of chrome and get Firefox and install couple extensions for privacy.

    So, I just ask them to download brave and tell them it’s just chrome but better,  It blocks all the annoying stuff on the internet and atleast they will stop using the hell of a pacifier that chrome is and move on.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      4 hours ago

      Yeah exactly, Brave is for people who are scared of installing extensions but clicking a big install button on a site that runs an executable is perfectly fine

      • ForgottenUsername@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Well I’d argue that with the changes to Manifest, Brave is actually one of your stronger options if chrome is a must have.

        If you don’t need chrome, Firefox (or a fork) with ublock is enough for most.

      • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Ublock Origin is the only mandatory extension i can think of.

        Some other extensions I personally use are:

        Gesturefy is useful if you want to control things with mouse gestures (holding right-click and then drawing a shape to activate commands)

        NoScript for a little added security, with the cost of having to manually enable javascript on websites that literally can’t function without it.

        Any extension that runs userscripts.

        Dark Reader for websites that don’t offer a dark mode.

      • imjustmsk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        6 hours ago

        Just Ublock origin is more than enough, it’s pretty customisable too, Brave is for people who just wanna install and do nothing

        Except when I install Brave I have to debloat it, holy bloat so is Firefox bloated - I usually get forks (Librewolf, Zen etc)