• Gameboy Homeboy @lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I feel like I’ve been forced to switch a lot of default applications lately based on shitty decisions from tone deaf companies. I guess I’m going to move from Brave to Firefox finally.

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      1 year ago

      Made the switch recently myself and can never look back. Being able to install custom add-ons on mobile is a huge plus to me

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      1 year ago

      Why did you chose Brave to begin with? Serious question, not being snarky. I tried it for a day and it just didn’t compete with Firefox + uBlock Origin in any meaningful way. I don’t see the appeal of bundling advanced security and filtering tools with the browser, it’s better if they’re separate entities, keeps everyone honest.

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        I’ve taught multiple people in my life to use brave. The vast majority of end users simply can’t be bothered to install a plugin or understand how to manage it when a site breaks. Brave makes it just a little more intuitive for them and means less IT calls for me. Firefox with ublock is what I personally use. Brave is what my family uses.

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          1 year ago

          Brave is just as likely to “break” a site as uBO, what do they do then?

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            1 year ago

            Brave has a button right next the task bar they can use to toggle off controls. I know ublock is stupid simple to do that too but the extra step of going to plugins then settings has lost people in my experience.

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              1 year ago

              uBlock has a button next to the search bar, you can hide it, but I’m pretty sure it’s shown by default. It’s 2 clicks, but it’s just the shield icon (which I’m just realizing has uO on it instead of uBO, is that the official abbreviation?) then a big ass Power button. Either way, in my experience, anyone I try to set up with anything other than Edge, ends up back on it within a month because the dark patterns work and they get tricked into it :(