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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by doc_gunthrop on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:00PM (#23442615)
With Chrome taking the lion's share of the browser user market, you end up with a lot of sites that work well in Chrome but not so well with other browsers.

So even if you use Firefox as your main driver, you'll still want to have a Chromium-based browser as a backup.

Now the problem for Android users is that, in light of this news, there's now one less (seemingly) viable option if you're using Google Play services.

If you're using F-droid, however, you have Bromite and ungoogled-Chromium as prime candidates.

Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by ifdefdebug on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:54PM (#23443071)
> So even if you use Firefox as your main driver, you'll still want to have a Chromium-based browser as a backup.

Nope. When something doesnt work in my FF then good bye. I cant be bothered to do extra work like switching browsers for to support their incompetence. It'been rare though.

Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by cerberusss on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:41AM (#23445053)
Very rarely, I fall back to Safari because I'm on Mac. But on my laptop, I don't have anything installed from Google. It's just not necessary.
Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by stjohnswarts on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:54PM (#23453425)
I'm the same way unless it's a company site. I even changed banks when they "upgraded" their site and it was no longer FF compatible. I figured if they couldn't stick to web standards they might not stick to security standards either. Sometimes I will change the user agent to chrome though in emergency situations and that sometimes fixes things.
Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by DangerousPie on Saturday June 06, 2020 @08:05PM (#23443477)
> With Chrome taking the lion's share of the browser user market, you end up with a lot of sites that work well in Chrome but not so well with other browsers.

TBH the only sites where I have noticed this are Google sites like Hangouts and YouTube. But even those work fine, they just seem to use quite a lot more CPU than I think they should. I do have Chrome as a backup in case something doesn't work, but I can't remember the last time I had to use that.

Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by missblit on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:26AM (#23444758)
I've honestly never had any major problems with sites working on Chrome but not Firefox, and I use both on a regular basis.

The only cases that I couldn't trace back to an extension were: 1. a major news site thinking Firefox was in incognito mode, and refusing to display any contents. 2. Google Stadia

Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by SSLy on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:44PM (#23442981)
Somehow Samsung Internet and Vivaldi, both closed-source chromium skins available on the Play Store, have always sparked more trust in me than the seemingly open Brave ever did.
Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by stjohnswarts on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:56PM (#23453436)
Because they don't have convoluted policies. You get what a user might expect rather than a bunch of rigamarole.
Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by nelblu on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:03PM (#23443779)
"If you're using F-droid, however, you have Bromite and ungoogled-Chromium as prime candidates."

I can't seem to find bromite on fdroid. Why it not there anymore?