It’s not. And its not supposed to be. Its to fund the development of the browser.

“Deal with worse UX or pay us to develop more crap” is not a good way to entice “voluntary” donations. Though I guess they know their audience is full of copium anyway, maybe it is an effective way at least, we’ll see.

Would you like to know or were just just wanting to be contrarian?

Funny you should say that, usually when I check tech threads - somehow you’re always there being downvoted to all hell for writing something edgy in a very pedantic (i.e. obnoxious) way. Including this thread. You could have just listed the damn features twice already when prompted about them, but you’re actively choosing to continue bullshitting as though you’re on twitter and farming for clout. I think I’ll just block you now.

I did not say otherwise.

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.

I don’t know what you’re on about. There is no keylogger and I don’t have any issues with the engine unless it’s some weird ass “chrome experiments” style website which I couldn’t care less about.

Most browsers don’t allow you to easily toggle on and off certain privacy features on a per-site basis

I don’t know what “certain features” are. LibreWolf lets me easily enable WebGL on per-site basis and uBlock could always do that anyway. I don’t need to touch anything else.

Origin is free on Linux.

Yes, and you can also toggle everything off via config. That does not matter, it’s still a scummy move that should be ridiculed. How, exactly, is a dashboard that toggles some settings on or off is worth 60 dollars? It’s not “paying for convenience” it’s a tax on tech incompetency.

No, talking about semicolons and tabs and spaces for the umpteenth time is not how we build real skills, and you shouldn’t waste your time “thinking” about it. You should run a linter that will format it for you and you should choose formatting rules that everyone working on the codebase in the future would be mostly OK with. Splitting hairs about when to insert a semicolon ain’t it.

Yet people keep recommending products by this scummy company and pile on Firefox for slightest missteps.

If you don’t trust the guy who “literally invented rsync in 1996” to do right by his project which he has been doing quite all right with for the past 28 years, then I don’t know how to help you. I’d like to put forward an insane idea that he might know what he’s doing and is not vibecoding with a blindfold on and a beer in his hand.

yes

Games will work fine on Debian as-is, but if you want latest-greatest-optimizesest the get either Nobara (stable, based on Fedora) or CachyOS (rolling, based on Arch) Or if you enjoy pain - Bazzite (immutable)

yes

wdym “borderline”

Normally - yes, but in this case it reads as “you can guess exactly how it went”

Doesn’t it come with its own WiFi access point dongle thingy?

I’m sure more people would delete Brave if they started to apply the same standards they do for Firefox

Oh, you should just disable the rewards the cryptowallet the ads on the homepage and ignore all the nonsense they did in the past, then it’s greaaaaat

With default settings it will wipe your history and cookies on exit

(Which I happen to forget about every single time I install it on a new machine, I hate this default with a passion)

Then there’s disabled WebGL, which you also have to reenable on a bunch of sites. Not too hard, but probably annoying for some

start with small projects that you would actually want to make

then cut the scope in half, because it’s still not small enough

I’ve answered to a sibling comment, but I’ll duplicate here. Hydra is not read-only and works really well on iOS.

Hydra works really well on iOS. It’s not read only, full usage.

And it behaves and looks really similar to the Lemmy client I use (Voyager). Unsure if they share some of the codebase or if they both just try to imitate Apollo.

I’ve listened to him quite a lot in ~2010, then learned about his YouTube channel when it started popping off, but only recently made the connection that it’s the same person.

I went to look at his Wiki page now, and apparently he also released music as Acidwolf, Human Action Network, and FlexE. TIL as well!