I love the privacy of the Brave browser but a couple of things made me decide to switch back to Firefox:
- More and more sites seem to be dropping support for Brave. That seems very odd because Brave is based on chromium and Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers out there. This means that site developers are proactively detecting Brave and blocking its use. The reason is probably because Brave is one of the most effective browsers for blocking user tracking.
- Brave is based on Chromium which Google controls. Google is using its Chromium code to treat users like children, monopolize browser behavior, and break the web.
- Chromium’s approach to treating you like a child was the final straw for me. Turning off “safe browsing” prevents you from downloading anything. Ridiculous.
I still plan to use Brave Search since it’s the most private search engine and doesn’t censor its results.
