Use LibreWolf instead. Fuck Brave.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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This is why I use Waterfox paired with DuckDuckGo tbh. Brave is a scummy company.
Brave sucks, lol, I use other browsers
There's no way people will actually pay for this, right? ... right?
Awesome, monetization of enshittification.
"Origin" is a peculiar choice for a version name. I wonder if they're trying to go off of the popularity of a common extension
Brave runs an ad network.
Yet people keep recommending products by this scummy company and pile on Firefox for slightest missteps.
Mozilla should be scrutinized, even if Firefox is currently the best option.
I think the only thing keeping them inline is loud community backlash everytime they make one of those misssteps.
People dont seem to be scrutinizing though. Its genuinely unhinged and often completely misinformed. They will jump on a single line of a legal text and use it to springboard into a world of scenarios even when Mozilla is saying its not true.
It doesnt help improve the product it just makes people think all products are bad and fallback to whatever the comfortable majority is which is chrome.
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I think everyone should be held to the same standard. We can yell at Firefox a bit less. We should yell at Brave a lot more.
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They removed the paw, they are worse than Chrome! I'm going to use an alternative version that cannot exist without the main project to teach them a lesson!
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Firefox users stay winning. I love how mad some people are about Firefox.
I am not mad about Firefox. I am mad about Mozilla.
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Brave has always been a joke. And Brave users will always be a joke. And anyone who’s ever simped for Brave will always be a moron.
Rude. But not inaccurate. Brave pretends to be better than Chrome and Google, but also Mozilla and Firefox at the same time, though Firefox has always done it better and has never contributed to the chromium monopoly. Greed over diversification of the Web and competition between browser engines to effect real change. The least Brave could do is make their own engine.
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I feel like if you're writing the sentence "an optional, paid version of our browser that offers Brave [...] without its extra features," you need to sit back and take a long, hard look at yourself.
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The bad news is, if you're not on Team Tux, you're going to have to pay $60 for Brave Origin. Granted, you only need to buy it once, and you'll get unlimited activations across all of your devices.
It's amazing people still believe this BS.
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Fuck that leaky browser. Asshole development.
That’s a brave move.
Brave lets people use Origin for free if they're on Linux
lol
I read the article.
But also I'm out of the loop on why ppl hate Brave. Can someone clue me in?
Is there a better cross-platform browser? I like to use the same one across devices.
I don't have a strong opinion on brave, but here's some reasons I can think of:
- cryptocoin shit
- based on chromium (so using this instead of firefox, for example, increases google's hegemony -- and this is true: even though chromium is open source, google completely controls its direction)
- CEO is a homophobe
- scammy business practices like inserting affiliate codes in urls
And this is just the stuff that I know from the top of my head. I don't particularly care about this topic, so I'm sure there's more. Although, having written all this out, I can sense that my opinion of Brave has worsened significantly.
Isn't it open source ? Can someone build a fork with all of this shit removed ?
It's based on Chromium, which is open source. It IS the fork.
Yeah I guess. Doesn't really change any of the arguments against it though. I mean, it's good that it's open source of course, but the ceo is still a homophobe, for example. And it still chromium based, and so on.
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It's sold as a privacy-focused browser but it doesn't actually have a good track record or features for it. The company has made several questionable choices.
Firefox or fork of choice plus a couple of extensions
Firefox, or its fork Librewolf if you really value privacy.
I'm using waterfox as my dedicated porn browser and have found few faults. Maybe I'll go that direction for my main browser.
I tried LibreWolf and had issues that I can't remember now.
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Explanation: buy a new one with updated back doors.
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