Brave Browser, Based or Botnet? 

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Yes! Let's build a botnet AI driven worm!

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SO I WOULD LIKE TO PERSONALLY CONGRATULATE MENTAL OUTLAW. ONE OF HIS VIDEOS WAS CORRECT AND ALMOST ON POINT AND CAN BE CONFIRMED. I AM TALKING ABOUT THE BRAVE BROWSER.....BASICALLY HE SAID NO DONT USE IT......................WELL I CAN FINALLY PUBLICLY TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT BRAVE BROWSER HAS BEEN LEAKING ONION ADDRESSES IN THE DNS TRAFFIC........HOW LONG FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF......BUT AGAIN WHAT DOES THIS TELL US? HOW MANY OF YOU ACTUALLY CAN CONFIRM THAT YOUR SHIT IS SAFE, PROB 99.9 BECAUSE YOU WATCH RU-vid VIDEOS INSTEAD OF FIGURING SHIT OUT ON YOUR OWN.

@@nikolas8741 Skynet: I am skynet! -T5000. The 5000 was the one in genesis and who was the hologram kid? Is he the T-5000 or a higher model?

Genius joke

that's actually a good joke, makes you wonder why Google named it chrome...

@@catchyname4353 becau s It shiny like chromh

@@julian-zg3js duh

Waterfox is the one true Browser thats both open source and trustworthy. But I use Opera for watching online TV.

Going with the flow as in go down the toilet drain with the rubbish.

It is completely true. Tech, meat and dairy industry, sugar...

It's almost like the people are alienated from reality.

The logic here is bad, though. People are lazy. The effort is to take advantage of this trait. Much of the time is pushes garbage onto people sure. But don't think in absolutes, and get your logic straight.

​@@shineymcshine Not far off, although the tendency is always worsened by making laziness EASY. Back in the good ol' days, it was considerably harder, and those who thought of themselves as such probably wouldn't have been it to the same degree. And of course, to make a man do something difficult (to gain agency IE) requires he be willing to deal with something difficult. Thus, (excessive, as we easily see) convenience is an evil against self-development. Want people to not be lazy? Don't let them in the first place.

Ah, yes, friends are the ultimate data collection tool used by big tech. First they convert them to their side, then indirectly extract information like from spies who don't know they're spies.

@@64_Tesseract Facebook's shadow profiles turns this joke into reality.

The feds already have all of the information they want from you. I never get why people are so adamant on keeping their data private when they can get Ruby Ridged at any time they want, they'll make up some bullshit justification to kill you.

@@cooldud7071 in line with the " I don't have anything to hide so let them harvest my data" argument. Assuming they already have all your info therefore ill make my computer usage a open book isn't the best way to go about it. Even if you truly believe that don't you want them to work for it? Make the glowies jump through hoops at least.

your pfp is a concern

Ask them if they're willing to send you the details of their browsing g history, social media accounts with passwords& allow you to go through them& publish a report to China & show them the horror of the social credit system

Ok downloading spyware shouldn’t be normal…. Everyone freaks out when they accidentally download spy ware on a strange website, so why is it ok for a big Business to do it? I bet it’s just cause everyone has the spyware they also should have it…

Just ask these people for their bank info Everyone's doing it

Stock up on canned goods.

I had an exchange with my friend about those services where you send your saliva to get the results of your ancestry. Cool concept but when you get down to it, were those information be sold to any insurance company, your chance of getting insured for things like cancer or any hereditary disease is basically reduced to 0. Anyway, upon being presented with this revelation, she just straight up doesn't care and nonchalantly said the most edgiest thing "I don't care I'm gonna die anyway" or something along those lines.

Damn! Thanks for the tip! :)

yes . librewolf has been very excellent in my opinion. but i always find myself ending up on default firefox again *shrugs* oh well XD

But hardening Firefox takes like 15 minutes tops, and most of it is just reading the options in FFprofile? Or is hardening Firefox something different than what I think?

@@kidkangaroo5213 it can get really involved. Especially if you use profiles for things like i2p. Having a simple, preconfigured browser with custom branding is pretty cool.

@@webbonyoutube fair enough

The process you speak of is mine exactly. Really only using Brave, and when I move from my laptop to a desktop, it's going to be Linux. I don't feel comfortable getting another computer, otherwise.

I literally switched from chrome to tor, with no intermediary in between. Instantly.

@@overlord2066 Tor is not a good browser for daily browsing, it's just for you to serf the web anonymously.

@@lagboat true

Just started this journey haha

In Firefox you have containers, you can use them with customized ones to use the sites that refuse to work!

@勇樹 yes its stil chromiuom based so uses alot of ram but still lot less than chrome

I am using brave for daily use, I agree with you.

The ad blocker on brave is actually pretty good

I’m pretty sure it’s adblocker blocks youtube ads but i’m not 100% sure because I forget if I ever get adds

@@aramalatrash6147 That's because chromium doesn't load all the additional spyware packages chrome does...

So Firefox is crap

@Maxblau Brave nightly is happy now

le shill lion

red browser was good....

Firefox is too hard to use and this comes from someone who uses it all the time, not because of privacy but because suspend is borked in Chromium browsers with Nvidia graphics cards. github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/11678

follow this guide privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config . you could follow some stuff on arch wiki to increase performance as well :)

He has one somewhere on the channel

It's called Tor.

two good videos by him: "The First Site to Visit After Installing Firefox" "Maximize Your Browsers Privacy and Security With Zero Addons"

The good think is it is open source, you can just make your own if you don't like it. That what happen to firefox when they went woke and that how waterfox was born.

@@protennis365 pretty sure waterfox was born because Firefox didn't want to make a full 64 bit browser back in the day

@@My_Old_YT_Account true, but Firefox fire there creator that could have done 64 bit done today because they went woke.

@@protennis365 pretty sure Firefox is fully 64 bit today (at least when you download it as 64 bit)

@@My_Old_YT_Account They are still a few generation behind in feature and going broke.

​@user-bi1vv3vq3i that's technically right, but the point still stands. I myself appreciate privacy, but privacy is not the end-all-be-all for most people, there's a limit to how much inconvenience I'll tolerate. Brave is perfect for me, I have barely tinkered with it beyond custom filtering to remove that annyoing "enhanced bitrate" button from the youtube quality menu, yet pretty much out of the box I have randomized fingerprints, a synced password manager, youtube with mobile adblock and control over how strict I block scripts and other things. I'll use Tor / TAILS for things requiring more privacy or the closest I can get to sandboxing, but Brave is a great and comfortable "default". "It just works" shouldn't be underestimated, yes I and most people are logged in to some services, but the fact that such an accessible browser is that good at anonymization without further tweaking should be seen as a major win for general privacy, maybe companies will eventually stop embedding every tracker under the sun if one day most people are daily driving some browser that makes those all but useless

Tis what happens when your main financial backer is google themselves. He made a video about sunless surf which looks to have potential. If youre fine with old school then links2 is a pretty cool concept (no javascript tho) Other than that there really isnt much choice as literally almost all other browsers are built with chromium framework.

They actually took down a fork that removed the bloatware, i think it was called "Braver"

@@AntiWeebPenguin They didn't take it down they sent them a trademark notice because they felt the names were too similar. The fork you're talking about is now called Bold Browser

The real deal right here folks.

security = infinity (NaN)

But is brave actually good for privacy? I Installed Brave on my phone, changed the settings to be more privavy focussed and use a VPN. Is Brave really not that good at privacy? Im a newbie so I dont know much about it.

Yeah its alot better

As a web dev I can attest to that. Most of my customers don't want to spend money on optimizing for Firefox since overwhelming majority of web traffic is from chromium based browsers.

I use Firefox because I actually like it, haven't heard of privacy or anything when I decided to use it. I just like Firefox, i keep brave as a backup in case something just don't work but to be honest I'm happy with my Firefox 😁

As web developer i really try to make my webs works on every system, except safari, that shit sucks... . BUT, you cant expect that everybody does the same, mostly because furefox user base is not enough to notice those little things so most just care about how things looks good on chrome (and that means every other chromium based browser) and look only important things on other browsers.

@@xxdarkzon3xx I share your hatred towards Safari. Man, I swear Safari is Internet Explorer of today.

@@xxdarkzon3xx To be honest that seems fine to me, i use firefox and i don't care. If shit goes wrong i have Brave installed.

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@@everyhandletaken thanks bro

yea i think ill switch too but i think it will be kinda hard for me to adjust from chrome to brave on mobile i got so used to chrome

Well, you can easily fork Mozilla Plus, there's the SUCKLESS browser, QuteBrowser& Falkon browser GNU IceCat, LibreWolf& WaterFox

@Dio Titus hell nah, I use LibreWolf, Firefox& maybe Falkon browser

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So? At least i´m being rewarded. Also i can turn it off all ads on brave (including the ones from the brave network and the externals with the shield) So, what you will do with my "data" if i don´t watch your ads?

@@andrius799 sure. what's that got to do with my point? i agree that bat is "more transparent" and it actually pays you back for giving your information. my problem is that people don't understand what's going on. BAT is a fully trackable privately held token. they are created attached to users, they are given based on attention to sites you visit. they are tracking you. PERIOD. you can opt out. you can choose not to use BAT (at all). this is a better situation than most tracking sure. but to say "brave protects you from tracking" or "brave doesn't track you" is not true. that's my whole point. if i had to extend my point further - brave may be the best "fully featured browser" we have in terms of privacy. but if the best surgeon is still killing 80% of his patients why am i the bad guy for calling it out? the difference between firefox and brave is basically nothing in terms of privacy. but i can't use youtube on mothra.

@@JaeleNistra yer data is already being used my google, least you get paid for it bro

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Switch it for them

Tell your whole family so they install Brave, move all the data to Brave and uninstall Chrome.

Based and botnet-pilled.

>linux >atheist nice cognitive dissonance bro

@@apestogetherstrong341 >not knowing Terry Davis references

>not going beyond into meta-meme territory evading culture references

so, a based botnet

No idea what that is.

@@qaaris4280 better youtube client

Already got Brave, feel like it's all I need.

@@qaaris4280 agree

wat

Brendan Eich the red-pilled lad.

Any update sir?

But youtube is

Brave is open source though

@@jaymesc4436 you can use NewPipe or invidious

@@AcidiFy574 have you ever tried connecting an account to either of those?

@@charliekahn4205 no need

Taiko?

@@opayke980 don from taiko no tatsujin

Why would anyone need fingerprinting on clear net??

Use multiple browsers

@Nate Higgers I despise Mozilla, but Firefox is still a great open source full featured browser!

@@timi_r0 why do you despise mozilla?

Literally not a single soul does, thats why Luke Smith says the Brave Team owes him money

Linux was never supported in the referral program due to technical limitations and more.

Is there a good guide about this? I may or may not make the switch depending on the results.

1) This is not a botnet browser. 2) Firefox is little more than a smokescreen Google runs to avoid anti-trust and doesn't represent real competition. Besides, how much longer do you think they'll continue to allow about:config tweaking? (I say this as someone who uses FF myself)

@Maxblau watch the hated one

@@HorrorUberAlles the hated one, watch him

@@damvsv9452 I think that my German is not good enough to evaluate what this RU-vidr is saying 😂 That aside, I would generally agree that you can harden Firefox (or one of its forks) better than just about anything else on the market. But Mozilla slashing the threat-response team in the last round of layoffs makes me wonder about their security, as do some claims that they are almost a decade behind on sandboxing technology, etc.

We have to uphold that Chromium marketshare bro

We're based on a patched-Chromium; we excise quite a bit, and proxy much of what remains: github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)

@@bravesampson why did you guys use url injection. I'm scared of the possibilities of what would happen if you weren't caught. Please focus on privacy and not money.

@@danielshrekoderbanner how would they continue developing if they don't get money? Although something dishonest like URL injection shouldn't be the way to go .

I didn't say to not get money, I just don't think that should be their primary focus.

Either you want to download a distro that "jus werks" Or you build a that distro and have every break if you do it wrong Pretty much every distro except BSD, Gentoo and arch work right out of the box

Ice Cat has a bunch of JS-blockers built-in. So it might not run every site without disabling them. I think Mental Outlaw has a video about it, and he also had a video about hardening Firefox. Good luck with it.

@@josephbrandenburg4373 I did watch that video about hardening Firefox, looks like I'll have to watch it again!

not completely open source

except youtube

@@abhrasrepository1173 lol give him a break aight

Totally

Addressing "Valid" Points: "Google Fanboy!" I'm only a fanboy for vital components of the Internet Age working reliably. The day Chrome inevitably breaks for a week due to Google's neglect or idiocy, I'll dump it like a sack of manure. "Firefox on linux is great! Y U No Use?" Yes I know that Firefox on Linux is far better than on Windows and has almost never had a memory leak, but I don't use Linux often enough to let it determine my primary browser. "But what about Google's politics/ideology?!" You mean the same nonsense basically all tech companies support nowadays? It's hard to avoid the backwards ideology of stupid rich white/blueish people with superiority complexes when they run all of the major companies, yes even Firefox.

Is that… is that TNG Moriarty?!?

@@bulbouspeach6270 Yes.

Le shill luke

@@____-gy5mq WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH YOUR USERNAME!??!

@@ladvargleinad7566 Chinese

The one friend I have who uses pale moon has complained about the ad block options being out of date and ineffective even against youtube of all things due to it forking so far off from firefox that it causes that problem.

Didn't they port Pale Moon to the PSP? lmao

im surprised you were saying this 2 months ago, i was saying this 2 years ago lol.

Yeah there's your issues. 2gb of ram isn't enough, a hard drive is significantly slower with its page file, and you are using a celery processor

@@louiesatterwhite3885 well it's easier to test which browser run better if you have this kinda machine lol

@@louiesatterwhite3885 lol, not everybody could afford fancy 128GB ram and the 10000 bucks processors, mr. my ram and processor, are from 2014,.

@@loendsti 16gb of ddr4 and a ryzen 5 5600g can handle just about anything you care to throw about it and can be bought for $200 or less

@@louiesatterwhite3885 not at where i am, it is expensive as heck. mr. configuration, you have mentioned, costs around 800 bucks, heck, kinda more than that. that processor alone more than 200bucks, here

You already can use about:config in the beta branch. They are restoring functionality, also with more and more addons support in every update, slowly but surely.

For me it was the exact opposite. I really disliked using the old mobile version. It felt slow and was cumbersome to use. The new one is way faster, probably faster than Chrome on my phone. They also listened really well to critique about it and they have been improving the ui/ux based on that.

Cue the shills.

Try out Firefox focus on Android, it's not very customisable but it's good in terms of basic privacy safeguards.

lolwut firefox for android has always been shit why is that news

*laughs in newpipe*

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@gametanz I'd be happy to join you on a Zoom call; these issues aren't familiar. I suspect something unique is impacting your experience.

@gametanz Hardware Acceleration issues are usually only intermittently an issue, and only for a subset of users. It's often the case that your video card drivers are not updated. I see this rarely, but always happy to help if it impacts your experience.

@Mr VT ah, thanks