• Raltoid
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    The ceo is a bigoted asshole, Brave is chromium, it was initially funded by Peter Thiel and they’re literally just trying to make their own adsense network.

    The self-proclaimed privacy focused browser is tracking your browsing and want to serve you personalized ads, and I think they want to use that tracking data for AI training as well, meaning other people can potentially access it.

    And lets not forget about their crypto currency that you can earn by turning on special ads. Which they seemingly unironically called it “Basic Attent Tokens”…

    TL;DR: The company is basically a sham company trying to usher in a dystopia. Where you’ll get paid for staring at ads, while having all your data stolen and sold back to you.

        • @astropenguin5
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          10 months ago

          Yeah top 4 browser are Firefox, librewolf, tor, and mullvad for sure.

      • Amilo159
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        710 months ago

        Firefox on desktop is awesome. Firefox on mobile is painful.

      • @[email protected]
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        I am using Brave on iOS mainly because of its superb YouTube support - It has a built in ad block, can download videos offline and play minimized. Is there any way I can achieve this with any other browser? I would switch immediately.

      • @[email protected]
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        I am forced to use Chromium on my work laptop because MS Teams doesn’t work (all the features) on Firefox.

        Edit: I should elaborate this a bit. There are 2 reasons why I use Chromium on my machine.

        1. If I face a problem, company tech team only knows Chrome and they start crying when I open Firefox.
        2. On Linux, the official way to use Teams is through a web-app and Firefox doesn’t support PWAs.

        All other MS services function fine on Firefox.

        • Destide
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          1410 months ago

          Which features I’ve never had an issue

          • @[email protected]
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            910 months ago

            Same. I use furefox for everything* at work, despite everything being heavily integrated with teams, sharepoint, et.al.

            *: The only thing that doesn’t work with firefox is this inhouse web service that hasn’t been updated since 2017. It’s about to be replaced anyway, so nobody bothered to fix/update it.

          • @rambaroo
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            710 months ago

            The custom background effects don’t work on Firefox

          • @[email protected]
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            510 months ago

            Simple one-to-one calling is disabled saying it’s only available on Chrome. I’m pretty sure it’s recent since I had calls a few months back on Firefox. I’m also sure that it’s not some group policy since I’m on Ubuntu without any sort of ActiveDirectory so it’s a pure browser issue. Also, they force the old UI in Firefox due to some reason. Typical BS from Microsoft.

            • @QuazarOmega
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              110 months ago

              Does changing user agent mitigate some of those issues?

              • @grue
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                710 months ago

                In a just world, the fact of changing the user agent fixing the issues would make for a slam-dunk anti-trust case.

                • @[email protected]
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                  110 months ago

                  If you confront Microsoft with this, then they will say they don’t have enough resources to test “thousands” of browsers which is why they have restricted their efforts to Chromium only, while making billions of dollars in profits each year.

              • @[email protected]
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                I’ve tried it today and yeah, 1-to-1 calls magically/unsurprisingly start working. In fact, the whole UI gets a facelift and lots of new features.

                If I had to guess, I’d say Microsoft keeps around a version of their UI, which hasn’t been maintained in over a year, and serves that to anyone initiating communication with a user-agent string they don’t like.

                If that’s true, that’s a massive security vulnerability. Admittedly, also unsurprising for Microsoft. @[email protected]

                • @QuazarOmega
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                  210 months ago

                  Wow, that’s egregious on so many levels!
                  This kind of browser apartheid should be illegal

        • @grue
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          410 months ago

          they start crying when I open Firefox.

          Good. Use it anyway, and bathe in their tears!

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        Removed by mod

        • @tomaThomas
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          They claim to be decent, but it’s closed source so who knows…