Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by rchaud on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:29PM (#18736818)

Firefox absolutely sucks on Android. It's fine on Mac OS, but it is so much slower than Brave (Chromium based) and Chrome itself, that it becomes irritating to use. That being said, it does support extensions like Ublock Origin and Ghostery.

Mobile Chrome means zero extensions and ad hell, so Brave it is. Same Chrome engine and UI (swipeable tabs is something I miss in Firefox Android) and adblocking.

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Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by zamalek on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:23PM (#18737233)

> Firefox absolutely sucks on Android.

Have you tried it lately? I agree that it used to, but it has improved vastly. It's my daily driver now.

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Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by pedrocx486 on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:52PM (#18737811)

I did, tried it for a week, honestly the scrolling still feels horrible when compared to Chrome.

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Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by sombremesa on Saturday December 22, 2018 @03:57AM (#18739722)

Agreed that scrolling is still janky, but the syncing of prefs (especially add-ons) is well worth it, imo.

Heck, even just the one add-on that lets you sleep your phone while a YouTube video continues playing is well worth using Firefox. Such a basic functionality isn't enough reason to get YouTube Red.

And then, you have add-ons like ublock origin that give you the Brave-like functionality without all this brouhaha.

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Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by zamalek on Friday December 21, 2018 @10:04PM (#18738668)

I absolutely agree with that, scrolling feels really janky but I did get used to it.

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Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by driverdan on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:26PM (#18737997)

Do you have old hardware? I use Firefox on my Pixel 2 and it's great, especially with ad blocking.

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Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by jammygit on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:45PM (#18737755)

I'm using Firefox right now om android and its a nice experience. Chrome variants are smoother scrolling I guess but the sync is sure nice in Firefox.

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