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vlovich123 · 2022-01-22 21:28:06

Out of genuine curiosity. What does brave do that’s so privacy focused and how is it better than Firefox on this front? Is it beating Firefox at the privacy pitch somehow?

Brave’s market share seems to be siphoning off Firefox users primarily more than Chrome’s…

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kissickas | karma 1475 | avg karma 2.71 · | 2020-02-26 04:32:42+00:00

I'm uninformed. By what metric is Brave better than Firefox on privacy? I did some quick research and could only find clearly biased (and poorly-written) sources making that claim.

dorkinspace | karma 219 | avg karma 4.56 · | 2020-01-01 17:02:56+00:00

I've been using brave and Firefox because of a perceived privacy benefit over chrome.

Would you mind expanding upon this statement on regards to Brave?

Thank you and happy new year!

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edoceo | karma 6496 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2020-06-27 02:25:16+00:00

Brave is the same engine as chrome and has some different privacy concerns. Firefox is the independent choice, Brave is sort of mis-named.

fastball | karma 11107 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2021-04-03 11:10:28

Seems like Brave is best of both worlds in this case.

It's a Chromium browser with a focus on privacy.

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SahAssar | karma 5923 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2020-06-06 23:27:54+00:00

What makes you think brave is better for privacy and transparency in the first place?

Everything I've seen about brave sounds like something that can be done better with extensions within firefox, just with some added crypto/privacy hype BS added on top.

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jpkeisala | karma 303 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2019-12-06 12:04:45+00:00

I wonder as being privacy focused, why did they not put Brave as recommended browser instead of Firefox?

crazypython | karma 4542 | avg karma 3.85 · | 2021-06-18 14:02:19

Brave is the false sensation of privacy, _compared to Firefox._ For people who use Chromium, Brave is the best there is.

vesche | karma 972 | avg karma 6.23 · | 2021-01-21 00:51:02

Genuinely curious, how is Brave "more privacy-focused and less politics-focused" than Mozilla Firefox?

jacooper | karma 6833 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2023-10-07 08:42:45

Brave is fully open source, and actually defends its users privacy by default.

While firefox still uses google, allows google ads and tracking, and just talks about doing something but does nothing

Also chromium is just a superior engine, in security and speed, using firefox won't change Chromium dominance at all.

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liberia | karma 970 | avg karma 8.08 · | 2022-07-27 09:56:36

Firefox and Brave are more privacy respecting than the lesser known shady ones. Firefox and Brave can block ADs, mitigate fingerprinting, enforce HTTPS etc

reciprocity | karma 113 | avg karma 1.45 · | 2020-04-03 16:53:34+00:00

I am still not understanding what Brave offers users that Firefox does not. Would someone care to fill me in? Discarding for the moment the notion of paying people to look at advertising - which strikes me as a step backwards for society, what privacy-related reasons are there to use Brave over Firefox?

tootahe45 | karma 500 | avg karma 1.46 · | 2018-12-17 09:15:54+00:00

I thought brave was going to become the privacy/security browser but they seemed to push that to the side while Firefox rapidly filled that niche in the past year at least for privacy. I just don't get why I'd use brave over Chrome, they renamed a lot of options just for the sake of differentiating, which makes it unintuitive at times.

throwaway914 | karma 360 | avg karma 3.6 · | 2023-11-04 01:36:11

Although I use Firefox, I will dutifully mention that Brave seems to be the best of all of them. I initially thought Brave was about seeing ads and earning crypto. Turns out this is something you opt-into. It goes much further than ungoogled-chromium and adds a ton of patches to protect privacy.

stakkur | karma 1563 | avg karma 2.76 · | 2020-12-15 11:44:08

I've tried both; I find Firefox dev tools to be much better (I like them better than Chrome, too). And in a venn diagram of privacy features, I think Firefox and Brave mostly overlap.

axblount | karma 431 | avg karma 4.4 · | 2022-07-27 11:28:27

Do you see Brave as more private and secure? Or do you think it gives a false sense of security relative to Firefox?

pseudosavant | karma 1735 | avg karma 3.6 · | 2019-06-18 01:35:09+00:00

I know it isn't Firefox, but Brave is a Chromium-based browser that has Tor built-in with their 'Private Tabs'. It is a really nice privacy focused browser. Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.

wolverine876 | karma 13735 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2024-02-12 05:12:08

> they defended privacy in a way Firefox never could

I have some familiarity with Brave. They use Chromium (or some components of it?) which is probably more secure from attackers. It has some built-in privacy, but how is it better than Firefox's?

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soundnote | karma 649 | avg karma 0.96 · | 2023-12-29 15:46:14

Why use Chrome when Brave is pretty much the same but with better privacy?

AdvancedCarrot | karma 227 | avg karma 16.21 · | 2022-07-17 10:10:51

Will say as well that Brave is much, much better out of the box for privacy than Firefox. Even with uBlock Origin and other privacy-friendly extensions, Firefox doesn't offer much in the way of anti-fingerprinting.