Just wanted to share that I've just installed Brave (from Chrome) to see what it was like. I thought I'd have to recreate all my passwords and shortcuts and stuff, and that it'd be missing some functionality.
In fact, it feels exactly the same as Chrome (plus a builtin ad blocker).
I wish I'd known earlier that it wasn't half baked...
The only problem I have is that I am not used to the lion icon :-)
It's not like Firefox is perfect but, at the moment, seems the only way...
As if advertisers somehow deserve "fairness" as they unfairly track and invade and usurp your privacy.
Choosing personal privacy over politics and "fairness" to advertisers should be a no brainer.
You're pretending like this 5 minutes of effort won't have to repeated in the future.
Other viable add-on options are certainly available but in my experience, I have not found these to surpass the speed and ease of maintenance I get built-in with Brave.
Every time you install the browser or buy a new computer, I guess? 5 minutes every couple of years seems like a negligible amount for me. Not to mention the fact that in Firefox you can just carry over your profiles folder, so it's more like 30 seconds every couple of years.
I actually quite like Brave as a browser and recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to or isn't going to be able to fiddle with setting things up. I just don't think the value proposition is compelling enough for me to reconsider.
Or until they issue an update or change their API and your add-ons suddenly stop working.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/02/01/addons-mozilla-or...
Sure, the blocker being a first-class citizen on Brave is certainly helpful and perhaps a marker of reliability (imo it is too young of a project to tell). I take that point, but there just isn't enough instability or unreliability on something like Firefox to warrant a switch for me (yet).
I also prefer a more granular control over my blocking, which Brave doesn't offer. I understand this isn't something the majority cares about, but I'm only talking about myself here.
The controversial ad strategy is completely opt-in, and at this point I haven't read up on it, and just let it stay turned off.
The sync is encrypted, the adblocker is what you'd expect, and the browsing is really fast (on Linux and Android, at least).
I am not anti-Chromium, just pro-browser diversity.
That sounds like a good reason not to use it.
Being "like Chrome but not Chrome" is not a positive thing.
Google Pay is about as anti-privacy as it gets.
You are handing Google your identity info and connecting to your Google ID. They don't even have to work for it.