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Brave's aggressive marketing (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Was reading an answer to the question about fresh Amazon tablet and saw this. They used up the question as a hook to promote their browser. Pretty sure I'm avoiding Brave from now on.

Q: Does the fire max 11 have YouTube app on it. A: I have installed Google Playstore , but I skip installing Youtube app . There is better option . Brave Browser in Playstore !! That thing has AWESOME popup Blocker and it's own integrated Youtube Ads and other Nuisances blocker . My point ? You don't need youtube on Fire max , You don't need Google Maps , You don't need Facebook App . Just Use Brave .

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I really doubt that is marketing. I just think that’s an over-enthusiastic user.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly a bit surprised their comment doesn't contain the user's affiliate links. "Over-enthusiastic" users used to spam theirs everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gentle reminder that Brave's CEO is a known bigot and the browser is just chrome with a few extensions and fresh coat of paint.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You're selling them short. They also developed some crypto shit to shoehorn into it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Isn't he a Blockchain/crypto grifter as well?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look ! Firefox marketing ! Gotta boycott them !

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

All those wonderful people are all just passionate firefox users, and you could be one too! All have have to do is get firefox! Please get firefox, it's great! You should totally get firefox!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I really don't understand why people use and recommend brave. They've have had plenty of shady practices in the past and bundle crypto crap by default. If you want to block ads just install ublock origin on (preferably) any privacy respecting browser like firefox (or better yet librewolf), ungoogled-chromium etc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

They just don't know any better. And when you tell them about Brave's history, they just don't listen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's more that do far I haven't seen anything wrong with the browser itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is the first time I heard about this. Was using it in the past on iOS, but I’m now using an extension in safari to block ads. What exactly is wrong with Brave?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox runs really poorly for twitch and youtube videos for me in linux; mainly in CPU. Brave will use maybe 10-20% of my cpu for a single twitch stream whereas firefox uses about 80%. I use firefox for all my browsing, but for videos it just doesn't seem to work well... Perhaps a different chromium browser would be better as you say.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The situation on mobile is dire. Bromite and Ungoogled-Chromium are dead, and mobile Firefox is slow crap that Mozilla doesn't give two fucks about. I'm grinding my teeth using IceRaven and Mulch, but I'm not surprised those with less patience would use an all-in-one solution.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is some really aggressive marketing.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Maybe, but there are LOT of weirdly aggressive Brave fanboys out there that would probably say shit like this without getting paid. Not sure how they convinced people that they were so great. Brave is a decent browser but it has a sketchy history, just like the people behind it. Would definitely recommend staying away.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Brave sucks. Firefox + uBlock Origin is superior.

Yes I'm a Firefox Supremacist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait untill OP says you are paid by mozilla

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So then he's partially paid by me!

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^Yes.^ ^Making^ ^this^ ^joke^ ^inspired^ ^me^ ^to^ ^donate,^ ^at^ ^least^ ^something.^

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this. I just donated to them too.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox on tablets is terrible due to the removal of the tablet layout. I use Kiwi browser with ublock instead.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave is a shit company, but I'd still take it over Google if those were the only two choices available. So yes even if it's an ad... It's not wrong.

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