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reddalo | 5 days ago

Do it. It's the only truly independent browser left.

It's not perfect, but it works, and unlike Chrome you can have full ad blocking with uBlock Origin.

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pessimizer|5 days ago

> only truly independent browser

Only truly independent browser engine left. Firefox is entirely independent on google, but unlike its competitors this dependency is through direct cash payments.

Sabinus|5 days ago

Perhaps the Europeans will end up funding Firefox to get away from American corporate tech dependency. Firefox has tried valiantly to get away from Google money but it's difficult to fund browser development from small donations or without cross-subsidies from other business, like web advertising.

charcircuit|5 days ago

With Brave you can have ad blocking built into the browser itself and not have to depend on a third party developer.

eipi10_hn|5 days ago

And Brave's built-in blocker uses uBO's and other lists, including allowing trusted filters (which can inject high risk scripts into your sites) automatically. So yes, you are using 3rd party scripts already, and no, they can't monitor all of the commits from all those lists.

eqvinox|5 days ago

The first party developer in case of Brave is arguably worse than most 3rd party developers elsewhere.

blibble|5 days ago

I would argue that third party developer is more reliable and trustworthy than both Brave and Mozilla