No but it does have telemetry.

And the only proof we have that he doesn’t collect data on Brave’s users is the questionable word of the devs.

And…the source code?

Literally any Firefox fork is a suitable alternative that can be daily driven

That’s simply incorrect. I’ve used a few and many of them don’t load webpages properly. We can argue about who’s to blame for that but at the end of the day they don’t work the way any Chromium browsers would.

Most people recommend forks of Firefox

Not around here they don’t.

Using a fork of Chromium is still using Chromium

That’s not correct. Chromium is an entirely different browser. It has a logo that looks like the Chrome logo but gray.

and still helping Google’s dominance in the browser market

When there becomes a suitable alternative that I can use for daily tasks and still preserves privacy, I’ll recommend that one.

Currently I use 1 of 5 different browsers, depending on the task. I can’t really recommend other people do the same. So the one is typically recommend is Brave because it’s the only out-of-the-box privacy-preserving browser that works with virtually any webpage.

There’s really not a difference. At the end of the day you need a browser so a reason not to use one is not terribly different from a reason TO use another. And the one that constantly gets recommended in these communities is Firefox, which is not as bad as Chrome but still worse than just about any privacy-preserving browser out there.

It still uses chromium

I’m not sure what that means. It doesn’t “use Chromium”, it is a fork of Chromium.

it’s susceptible to the Google’s Web integrity protocols

No. It isn’t. You’re thinking of Chrome. Don’t know how many times I can say this but Chromium forks are not Chrome.

An website using the new protocols can refuse to load on your browser if you don’t accept the ads.

…huh?

Why is it so difficult to comprehend?

Because it makes zero sense.

Yet, they use Brave. Chrome

FTFY

Just disable the ads, crypto and telemetry and suddenly none of those things are a problem anymore, just like Firefox.

Firefox is actually NOT a private browser. I don’t know where it gets this reputation because clearly those people haven’t read their privacy policy where it plainly states that they gather and sell your info to a data mining company.

For better or worse, Chromium browsers work better because the vast majority of people use Chromium so that’s how people build their sites.

Brave has tons of privacy features and settings. Including built-in ad-blocking just like uBlock so your extensions can’t be used to fingerprint you.

If you want a private browser and insist on but using Chromium there are dozens of Firefox forks that are much better for privacy.

If the (supposedly) privacy preserving ads and crypto really upset you, you can simply turn them off.

Stock for stock, yes.

The difference is iOS is iOS, and there is only one. Whereas Android is open source and comes in thousands of flavors. You cannot install another OS on your Apple devices. You get what Apple gives you, and nothing more or different because that’s the way they like it. They want control over your devices.

Some flavors of Android are Graphene or Calyx OS which are not only better and more usable than iOS but also 10x more secure and private.

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Voyager

Depends on your client

it’s not true at the instance level, for lemmy-- unless there’s a new option I didn’t see

I promise it is true. I’ve been doing it for months.

Second, having to block someone that suggests you should die for your skin color, after reading the comment, is not without harm.

Speak for yourself. Doesn’t harm me.

I prefer not to “get used to” a super slow service.

It’s not hard to use but definitely doesn’t work well, in my experience.

It’s going to become Voat or whatever the latest far-right website is these days.

Not at all. I mean maybe if you only look at the local feed. But this is the Fediverse, I can still see every other instance.

I don’t need anyone choosing for me what I should and should not see. I can (and do) do that myself, thank you.

I don’t understand what one thing has to do with the other.

No one should voice their concerns with the direction of the instance? Everyone should just be silent because the community is run by volunteers?