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Why not Brave and Alternative to Brave.
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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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The TL;DR is that while the browser is technically fine, the people that own it are really fishy and are always trying to turn a profit, whether it be pushing crypto or discussing having their own ad network. They also use Chromium which means Google can slowly push things into it. You should use Firefox with Ublock Origin and tune the browser settings for privacy. There are also forks of Firefox tuned for privacy but I don't think most people need it.
Firefox also cares about profit (the Mozilla Corporation makes Firefox and is a for-profit entity), that’s why they take that money from Google, try to get people to pay for email aliases and VPN, etc. If Brave maintains a chromium fork, they do not have to deal with “Google slowly pushing things into it” other than removing those things.
That does seem a lot better to me than crypto and ad networks.
What's funny is that Brave Shields appear to be a fancy UI around uBlock. The element picker UI isn't drastically changed.
The wallet was for a whole just Metamask (it is now it's own implementation which is nice).