It installed it two years ago but nobody noticed because all the privacy nerds use different browsers
I remember chrome, its the new Internet Explorer i believe.
Google doesn’t need to scrape the web they just need chrome to send them the das you are already scrapping for them. Stop using Chrome.
Don’t give money to the death star and yes, your data is money
Omg but it’s ok because we called it 🌼⭐ federated learning ✨💮 so we only steal the data that is profitable to us while legally no PII leaves your device 🚀 weeeee!
I wonder when Brave’s local blockchain update will drop
Just the other day I uninstalled Chrome & gave “Enshittification” as the reason when prompted. Not that I’d been using it since turning to Firefox a few years ago and Waterfox more recently.
I found out this doesn’t apply to celeron laptop from 2016 with 4 GB ram so all good.
Local AI js API checks pc specs before downloading - cos it wouldn’t work anyway 😁
people used chrome?
It’s all a joke at this point lol.
“So what new evil schemes are big tech up to? Ah, installing LLMs on people’s devices? Wonderful!”
Maybe one of their users will find a use for it.Then they will finally have a business plan!
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I didn’t think that AI would be a big brother in reality.
I only used Chrome on my old phone, and since I have switched away from it with the new phone.
No sensible adblocker is the point that killed Chrome for me.
Brave is better than Chrome. Definitely recommend.
I’d seriously reconsider considering their history so far.
https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
If it must be Chromium, Vivaldi is better. Though I’d recommend Waterfox (Firefox fork).
It’s always funny seeing the recent Reddit migrants here. Brave did a massive astroturfing ad campaign on Reddit for a while, and it was hugely successful. After things reached a critical mass, the echo chamber took over and Reddit users naturally began pushing Brave’s marketing fluff to the top. Brave is wildly popular over on Reddit as a result.
But they never targeted Lemmy, and Lemmings were pretty quick to jump on the “Brave is run by a very problematic person, and has a problematic past” side of things. Lemmy also has a very vocal FOSS enthusiast crowd, because the idea of FOSS meshes very well with why people would land on Lemmy. So Lemmings tend to prefer Firefox forks instead.
But you can always tell when someone has recently migrated here from Reddit. Because they’ll post a comment praising Brave, expecting to get upvoted like they would on Reddit. And instead, they get buried in downvotes and “my specific fork of Firefox is better” comments.
And sure enough, OP’s account is less than a day old, so they’re most likely a recent Reddit migrant.
OP, to address your point, Brave is still a Chromium browser, and has all of the trappings that entails. It is also run by a dude with a problematic past, and the company as a whole has a problematic past too. You should consider switching to a Firefox fork instead, with uBlock Origins or AdNauseum (which is a uBO fork) as ad blockers. I personally suggest the WaterFox fork, though you’ll likely want to disable some of the more strict privacy protections (like wiping all of your data every time you close the app) because it can make daily use a bit of a chore otherwise. There is always a matter of give-and-take between convenience and privacy, and WaterFox tends to skew more towards privacy.
I think you’re mixing up Waterfox with Librewolf. Librewolf by default deletes all your data after closing it, Waterfox doesn’t.
It’s actually for this reason that I use both for different purposes. I sign into accounts with Waterfox (using account containers and browser profiles so each account’s data is self-contained and not shared between each other) and use a sandboxed installation of Librewolf with a few extensions like NoScript installed and letterboxing enabled for anything I don’t sign into (i.e. news articles, web searches, etc.) so that the 50-odd domains running scripts on my local news station’s website get way less of a fingerprint off me to use to target ads at me or sell my data to data brokers or the gestapo.
Hah, you’re 100% correct. I use WaterFox as my daily driver, and remembered all of the frustrations with persistent data deletion from initially trying Librewolf. I swear WaterFox came with those features by default, but I probably transposed the frustration from when I initially tried out Librewolf instead.
Firefox and Firefox forks > *
We all need to stop using Chromium forks
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Well your first mistake was using Chrome in 2026
same i abandoned as soon as they said they were going to slow the browser/computer down for people using private mode. oh and it has no adblock that is good as ublock origin.
I hate that I still have to use Chrome because it can do some streaming stuff better than Firefox (and even Chromium for some reason). I only use it to connect to one KVM.
Do the streaming issues resolve themselves ✨magically✨ when faking the user agent to be Chrome for those streaming sites, e.g. using Firefox and a user agent add-on?
Many do, yes. Any time I get an error message like “You’re not using a supported browser” that message vanishes after adjusting the user agent.
Well yes, the warning messages will disappear as those are often shown or not shown based on user agent.
But will the actual streaming issues go away is the big question.
Teams on the web for example, worked fine in Firefox even though it warned the user it didn’t work in anything but Chrome.
I have not encountered streaming issues that could not be resolved by user agent so far.
That’s the neat part - all always do!
My issues were with h265/HEVC support, proprietary stuff like media codecs can sometimes be a pain. I no longer have that need so I’m a happy fox.
Pretty sure Firefox added support for HEVC a while back, but it relies on the system to provide the decoder (Which you’ll usually have to pay extra for)
Firefox also supports MKV files now, which is nice.
Not in this case. It’s an open source project. They usually don’t do this shit.
Tell them to get their shit together and support open-source browsers, or more accurately just browser standards in general.
For when I need Chrome, I use Vivaldi. Its probably over bloated for what I need, but it works.
When I need to use Chrome, I just use the Chrome Mask extension in Firefox to change my user agent. I haven’t had a site that actually failed to work on the Gecko engine instead of Chromium. It’s just lazy devs checking your user agent to see if you’re using Chromium, and then throwing a fit if you’re not.
Chrome Mask even has a built in site reporter, because broken sites don’t actually conform to modern web interoperability requirements. If it fails to work on Gecko, there’s a good chance that it will also fail to work on other platforms (like Apple’s WebKit) as well. And the reports go to the team that develops Firefox, so they can figure out why the site is refusing to work on Gecko.
Vivaldi is a great Chromium browser. I’m more of a Firefox/Librewolf on my personal machines, but my work’s software has a few features that only work with Chromium extensions so I had to use it. Was my preferred alternative to all others, while bloated it was highly controllable and didn’t focus on unnecessary features like Brave or others. My work recently banned any browser that isn’t Chrome/Edge/Firefox though, so I guess I’m back to Firefox and will ignore the features I can’t use
I also use Vivaldi, and I don’t care about the bloat.
I bought the entire computer, I’m going to use the entire computer.
Try Brave for this use-case. I find that it works well for all kinds of streaming.
And while it’s no Firefox or Librewolf, it’s still a lot better than Chrome.
The problem with brave is that the CEO is a very bad person, the company also give me sketchy vibes with the crypto stuff they push
Well, sure.
But even then still better than Chrome.
Second Mistake was using Windows in 2026
id say this is the first mistake really
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