Brave marketing has gone crazy to convince people it's less dodgy than Firefox. Come on!
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talk about bad taste
They should've picked LibreWolf which ships with uBlock Origin. Brave is a disappointing choice because it supports multi-level marketing pyramid schemes which says enough about their moral compass.
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Y not gnome web
Seems like a strange choice. If anything i would've expected them to just use a firefox fork or something.
“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"
That's gonna be a no from me, dawg
I'm actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it had brave installed. I would immediately switch.
Brave is a fairly recent outlier, and while it isn't quite proprietary, it stinks a fair bit of something capitalist/crypto.
Boo
Firefox is bad, Brave is evil. Why did they decide switching is a good idea?
Blech. I'd downvote this because I disagree with their decision, but I'm glad you brought this to our attention.
While FF's evil quotient has been on the rise, Brave definitely isn't a better option. If anything, librewolf is the way to go.
As a Librewolf user I wouldn't make it default for casual users this kind of distro is aiming for. Sure enabling logins to use it as a main browser is piss easy, but that's still more work than the average person wants to put into setting up their system.
Waterfox would be the better choice since it's just default Firefox in every way besides Mozilla's spyware.
there’s Zen also. that also has normie defaults, however the drastically changed UI/Uxmight not be for everyone.
Agreed, I wouldn't recommend Librewolf for casual users. I understand why Librewolf makes those decisions, and I'm glad that it exists, but you definitely run into some quirks when using it. I'm thinking about switching from Librewolf to Waterfox myself.
Doesn't Librewolf log you out of every site when you close it, by default? I don't think that's a good default
That is the default behaviour, but it's pretty trivial to change. Also, I'd imagine the distro maintainer could choose to change the default settings as part of a post-install script, if they wanted to.
Edit: Not sure why you're being downvoted, as I do think it's a valid concern.
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How is brave the lesser of those two evils?
It isn't.
Brave sucks Google balls.
Crypto scam browser is never a better evil...
Based on absolutely nothing, I feel like it isn't..
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That's a clown makeup moment for Zorin OS
I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it's not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it's Gecko.
I don't know the details, but I hope they will at least remove the VPN and crypto wallet integrations from the default installed version.
The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
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Not sure why they don't just ship Firefox with extensions like uBlock pre-installed
Edit: it looks like they're heavily tweaking Brave regardless. I doubt this move was for technical reasons
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Wow, never recommending zorin to anyone again. Switching from gecko to chromium is a dumb move.
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