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Brave just released their own privacy-preserving AI assistant named Leo. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by FatCat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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You can test it in Brave Nightly 1.59.

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[–] roadkill@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

The Brave web browser has carved out a niche over the past few years as an alternative to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and other mainstream web browsers. Some of that has come from its marketing as a privacy-preserving web browser, and it has also been repeatedly evangelized by cryptocurrency enthusiasts.

If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Your quote is worthless, that summary doesn't give any reason what's problematic about the browser.

It's also unfortunate that the article's author chose to start with politics - I prefer technical reasons to stop using technical tools.

The crypto bullshit and injection of affiliate codes to URLs are indeed problematic. However, to me that just says to stay vigilant when using Brave but it's still not as bad as Chrome.

Personally I use Firefox anyway but unfortunately, webdevs get lazier every year and only test Chromium browsers and sometimes some stupid website doesn't work correctly on Firefox. If it's something like an airline checkout I need a fallback browser and today that's Brave.