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Why use Brave rather than FF? Sincere question. Lots of tech minded people choose it, when FF seems like an ideal choice?

My reasoning for not using Brave: not only is it a wrapper around Chromium, but their crypto stuff and some dodgy affiliate injection in the past paints them as untrustworthy.

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Come on, this was 6 years ago, they have apologized since. Firefox also had trips like pop-up ads in 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36073619 and ToS rewriting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251762.

Brave is faster, suspends tabs when getting short of RAM with hundreds of tabs, has a first-class built-in ad blocker and fingerprinting protection, is compatible with Chrome extensions, includes Tor support, provides anonymous Brave Search with Goggles out of the box, free and private AI assistant Leo.

I was just explaining my reasoning. Trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets. Affiliate fraud is far more serious and untrustworthy than a popup advertising their own product. But yes Mozilla have had their missteps too, no doubt.

In any case, thanks for explaining. There are some features there I was unaware of

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