Ungoogled Chromium, if you don't mind supporting the monopoly, and the (IMO) onerous upgrade path.
Mozilla just shattered an extension ecosystem and now there's like 10 extensions left. You can do store extensions in Nightly, but you now need a firefox account to do so. (And you have to press secret invisible buttons, not joking.) Non-store extensions are apparently canceled.
It's a power grab all the way down. We wouldn't make excuses if Google did that and we shouldn't make excuses if Mozilla does it.
Current Mozilla does not behave in a way that would demonstrate that they are a good steward for Firefox or the open web.
(Yes, Dissenter is associated with bad people. No, I am not one of those bad people, I just use the browser. Yes, it is sad that this disclaimer needs to be written. Please don't downvote me.)
Me, I prefer to not look at ads at all.
I currently use old firefox for pages where I need paywall extensions and Vivaldi (and occasionally the half baked new firefox) for normal browsing.
If it were proprietary, then yeah, it would have no point.
It's the same story - an unsuspecting update adds [ads|crypto|rewards|suggestions], users complain, and they apologize for having it enabled by default, and point out that to an option to turn it off, 10 clicks under.
Rinse and repeat.
Just use Firefox, and at this point the Chromium Edge probably takes things more seriously (including privacy) compared to the joke that Brave is.
Worst part is if you turn notifications off the share to device functionality doesn't work anymore
A small donation button next to GitHub projects or Reddit posts is not advertising.
Of course it should have an option to be disabled, without a doubt but for the most part it's no more intrusive than using RES on Reddit.
Yes, I thought Brave was injecting commercial ads into those pages, not the tips buttons. Still surprising, but much different for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(Submitted title was "Brave Hijacks Twitter, Reddit and GitHub with Advertisements")
I usually support brave but this was disapointing. I know I am using the browser for free.
Brave is a scam in this regard. It says it gets rid of ads but places them elsewhere. For example, when you close all of your tabs, an ad is the background for the dashboard view - which ironically shows you how many ads Brave has blocked.
BAT never say well with me, and the maintainers of Brave have only demonstrated why it shouldn't by being hostile to (well intentioned) critics on the issue tracker.
Just a sad project all around, and it's further sad to see some OSSers that I like be associated with the project...
