• Raltoid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The ceo is a bigoted asshole, Brave is chromium, it was initially funded by Peter Thiel and they’re literally just trying to make their own adsense network.

    The self-proclaimed privacy focused browser is tracking your browsing and want to serve you personalized ads, and I think they want to use that tracking data for AI training as well, meaning other people can potentially access it.

    And lets not forget about their crypto currency that you can earn by turning on special ads. Which they seemingly unironically called it “Basic Attent Tokens”…

    TL;DR: The company is basically a sham company trying to usher in a dystopia. Where you’ll get paid for staring at ads, while having all your data stolen and sold back to you.

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      1 year ago

      I see no reason to use any other browser than Firefox and maybe Librewolf.

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        I am using Brave on iOS mainly because of its superb YouTube support - It has a built in ad block, can download videos offline and play minimized. Is there any way I can achieve this with any other browser? I would switch immediately.

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        I am forced to use Chromium on my work laptop because MS Teams doesn’t work (all the features) on Firefox.

        Edit: I should elaborate this a bit. There are 2 reasons why I use Chromium on my machine.

        1. If I face a problem, company tech team only knows Chrome and they start crying when I open Firefox.
        2. On Linux, the official way to use Teams is through a web-app and Firefox doesn’t support PWAs.

        All other MS services function fine on Firefox.

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            Same. I use furefox for everything* at work, despite everything being heavily integrated with teams, sharepoint, et.al.

            *: The only thing that doesn’t work with firefox is this inhouse web service that hasn’t been updated since 2017. It’s about to be replaced anyway, so nobody bothered to fix/update it.

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            1 year ago

            Simple one-to-one calling is disabled saying it’s only available on Chrome. I’m pretty sure it’s recent since I had calls a few months back on Firefox. I’m also sure that it’s not some group policy since I’m on Ubuntu without any sort of ActiveDirectory so it’s a pure browser issue. Also, they force the old UI in Firefox due to some reason. Typical BS from Microsoft.

        • dan@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          I use Firefox as my primary browser and run the teams app.

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          they start crying when I open Firefox.

          Good. Use it anyway, and bathe in their tears!