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- Brave blocks you more against Fingerprinting than Firefox with uBlock. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

- Brave uses Chromium and uses better isolation and sandbox than Firefox. Especially on Android.

- Brave has Adblock built-in natively. It's written in Rust, so Manifest v3 will not affect it. https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

- Brave is profitable on itself and not dependent on search engines money like Firefox.

Not saying it's the best but I decided against Firefox because the technical and financial foundation looks better on Brave for me.

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To each their own, bit this is what it boils down to for me: I trust Mozilla's intentions more than I trust Brave's.

There's no telling when Brave are going to decide it's time to monetize and start compromising themselves and their users.

If you'll excuse the tangent, judging [anything] by intentions is generally impossible. There was a time when Google was an absolutely inspiring company and there whole 'Don't Be Evil' slogan wasn't just an ironic joke. And they kept doing the right thing year after year. Yet within a matter of years from their peak they managed to devolve into a sort of satire, in their extremism, of 'evil corporation.'

There was never any reason to expect this to happen, but it did - and exceptionally rapidly. I absolutely agree with you that there's no telling when Brave will start going the other way and compromise all that they currently stand for. And that's okay. Because if, or probably more accurately when, that day comes - I'll be moving onto whoever the next "Brave" might be.

And the cycle will continue.

> Brave uses Chromium

> Brave is profitable on itself and not dependent on search engines money like Firefox.

Brave is still dependent on Google even more than Firefox, I agree that Mozilla must seeks multiple sources of revenue but if it was easy maintaining your own engine Brave would do it.

Let's take 2 hypothetical scenarios.

1. Chromium stops being FOSS.

Brave, Vivaldi, Edge continue to exist. The only difference being, Brave is now a fork that exists independently and has to do security patches on its own.

2. Google stops funding Mozilla.

With 90% of the revenue gone, Mozilla as we know it would cease to exist as a corporation.

So no, Brave's dependence on Google is not a life and death situation for the whole company.

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