Chrome is heavy spyware that scans your whole PC by default under the guise of "chrome is an antivirus now". Chrome tracking data is used for google's advertising wing and they lied about it extensively, which was obvious to many but now there's proof because of the recent leak.
Brave does not do this. Pretty much without exception, anyone using chrome is better served by using brave. It doesnt mean brave is perfect or the best, but holding up chrome as better is a joke.
Brave is a separate fork and completely unreliant on Chrome. It also is the most privacy-focused browser so it's the opposite of "tracking-supported software".
Brave is a really, really great alternative to Chrome. I started using it about a year ago, and it is pretty much Chrome, with less ads and spyware in it. Great software.
Whoever uses Brave for "privacy" reasons should understand that Chrome offers more privacy due to fingerprintability.
I see the downvotes coming yet it is true check it for yourself. Brave is so easy to fingerprint compared to Chrome it defeats any purpose ever to use Brave in the first place if privacy is your main goal. Removing all the Google bits from the Chromium base doesn't help since you are so fingerprintable.
I think your comment is a bit misleading as they aren't doing anything nefarious as you suggest. My guess is this is a carryover from Chrome and not something Brave decided to build; if that's the case your not getting more secure by staying with Chrome.
In evaluating Brave, you have to give it apples to apple comparison anyway. Brave vs. Chrome as its directly built on chromium. For compatibility, it shares the chrome app store too. I like to think of Brave as Chrome without most of Google but with all the benefits.
Anecdotally, I switched a colleague to Brave about 3 months ago. He decided to switch back to Chrome. Chrome was so much slower than Brave and added battery drain that he came back. I assume it was all the additional requests cut out (Google) or blocked by Brave (Adblocker).
Brave currently offers all the benefits of Chrome with few of the downsides.
They are one of the few companies actually trying to change the spyware model of the web into something much more in line with its original principals (p2p ethos)
Anyone using Brave should be aware that Brave are known to use Bots on HN and on 4chan to spam pro Brave messages. If that isn't enough of an indicator how trustworthy their business is then I don't know.
Currently there is not a singular reason to use Brave over Chrome. The only thing Brave does is bundle an adblocker and Brave is slightly easier to fingerprint than Chrome. There is no other difference.
By default you will have less privacy with Brave than with Chrome due to fingerprinting.
"It's not chrome" is a pretty compelling feature for many. If you ignore Brave's insistence on following shitty web3 trends, it's an open source chromium fork that matches Chrome in performance and reliability while supporting the blocking of ads and trackers, and importantly ripping out all the ways Google sucks up all your usage data in Chrome.
I still don't understand why you would prefer if Brave was based on Firefox instead of Chrome. One of your comments sounds like you're worried about Brave inserting tracking. Brave could do that regardless of what it's based on.
I use and recommend Brave. People should definitely stop using Chrome imo due to the privacy concerns.
Edit: the reason I use Brave over firefox is largely because firefox drained my battery and always turned on the fans on my macbook last time I tried it. Things might be better now but I've settled in on Brave and am happy with it.
Yeah this is the correct answer. They're a privacy focused browser, which includes not collecting specific user data or letting other people collect user data. So if you send a request to their browser asking what it is, it'll tell you it's google chrome and not Brave
Brave does not do this. Pretty much without exception, anyone using chrome is better served by using brave. It doesnt mean brave is perfect or the best, but holding up chrome as better is a joke.
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