Brave fork without crypto crap?
Brave fork without crypto crap?
I have been thinking about switching to brave for better fingerprinting protection
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Firefox. Or if you don't want to spend time configuring it, Librewolf.
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I also recommend Librewolf. It's very good at what it does. They also have a list of recommended addons to enhance your privacy.
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Why not use Librewolf? Fork of Firefox, hardened and resists fingerprinting. Scores pretty damn well on https://privacytests.org and pairs well with Mull on Android.
AFAIK there are no actively developed Brave forks.
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I use librewolf on my work laptop it removes all cookies every time you close it, this wouldn't be a problem on mobile as I already set my phone browser(fennec) to do that but on my personal computer it crosses the border from I can deal with it to too inconvenient
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You can turn that off in the settings
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If you want Brave without the crypto crap then spend a minute or two and turn it all off in settings. You'll never see it again.
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We recommend just switching to Brave and disabling the 'crytpo crap' yourself rather than using a fork that is liable to go unmaintained and miss updates.
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All of the crypo crap can be turned off in settings.
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And the setting really does work. The crap is completely gone afterwards. There is no grayed out symbols, or nag screens or anything.
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Or more accurately: can be turned on. Everything crypto is disabled by default.
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Functionality wise yes, but it's visible in the UI and frontpage and that can be disabled/removed .
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So Chromium?
Just use Firefox, its the better browser anyways.
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Brave might have started as a basic Chromium fork, but the various privacy/security features they added do make them standout now.
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But they still contribute to google's monopoly over web standards.
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It is really disingenuous to say "X is just a skin of Y" just because they share the same browser engine or are forked from the same browser. Like you say, there are a lot of changes.
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I already use Firefox but brave is just better at fingerprinting protection
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There's CanvasBlocker for Firefox that can do fingerprint protection.
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Almost all of my Linux devices have both chromium-browser and Firefox installed. Firefox is my default, but there are some apps out there that work a lot better in something chromium-based.
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I agree the crypto stuff is super annoying, but it's a really nice and clean browser after you disable all that and tweak the settings (which you'd probably want to go through and configure with a new browser anyway)
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even as a crypto user & dev, brave's crypto shit is annoying af, it's inferior by far to what everyone else uses & they push it on ur face & make u have to remove it.
i'd rather just use firefox or even microsoft edge, even for crypto stuff
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At that point just use Firefox / Librewolf, os just turn off all of the brave rewards crap ( crypto )...
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Just switch off brave rewards and sponsored content. And, your fork is ready.
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You can just disable it in settings, fairly easily. This is preferable to searching for an obscure fork of brave (for me personally).
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Never trust anything that comes anywhere near crypto. Firefox with the Electronic Frontier Foundation's privacy badger plugin and a good adblocker is the way to go. https://privacybadger.org/
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Why is crypto so bad? Please explain.
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Looks like Brave is the best for privacy over all.
https://privacytests.org/-
That site and testing is run by a Brave employee, right? I'd be very skeptical of Brave's high scores.
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To me, Brave or DuckDuckGo are as malicious as Google
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What makes you think about duckduckgo like that?
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They are less invasive on the privacy front, but they also push their products much harder down user's throat due to less revenue from less accurate ads, just look at DDG's frontpage.
I also found them self-censoring towards IPs from China, albeit this could be the direct result of using Bing's search results.
It's much easier to compare it with something like SearXNG which has the same core principle, without ads, without censorships, without invasive marketing.
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