Android @lemdro.id Pro @programming.dev 4d ago

Brave Launches Official F-Droid Repository for Android Browser to Bypass Google Play

brave.com Official Brave F-Droid repository now available | Brave

Our new officially-supported repository allows users of the F-Droid client to install the browser and receive automatic updates without requiring Google Play.

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So they can send your data to Microsoft instead of both.
Brave's a bunch of marketing/advertising driven crypto"currency" i.e., pyramid scheme peddlers desperate for greater fools.
↳ “Kill yourself.” —Bill Hicks.

On a computer either use uBlock Origin-included LibreWolf for stability and privacy, Zen browser for power users, and on Android one can use Fennec; all of them Firefox derivatives.

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Cool I guess. But I still find Brave to be a sketchy organization with how they have done some of their schemes to make money over the years. So will continue to avoid anything they make.
good, now it can go fuck itself without google's interference
- While continuing to use their own proxies to send your data to google.
YSK: Brendan Eich left Mozilla over his own homophobic beliefs. He is also a coronavirus denier.

Brave is homophobic Chrome with crypto on top
- And they tried to steal money while claiming it was donations for content creators.
  
  Yes, honestly the most damning thing they've done, selling out their own users
  
  Fake money
- A good enough reason to ignore Brave tbqh
- Fuck Brave. Just use Firefox.
- I never liked Brave tbh, something about it felt sketchy with all the crypto stuff
- I could hate JavaScript for free, I'm very thankful Brendan gave me an extra reason
  
  Why do you hate JavaScript?
- And he inflicted JavaScript upon the world, completely wrecking the World Wide Web. Fucker should burn in Hell for that, let alone the other stuff!
- why i use vivaldi
  
  That is worse
- Brave is a great browser, specially on older mobile. It is the default browser for the Nobara gaming linux distro, because it's so good, and recently ranked top tier browser by Pewdiepie.
  
  why would a desktop distro care that a browser works well on mobile? what was their actual reason?
  
  also, we already went over this: that tier list was not his. it was in his video because he was quoting another video. and if he did it fact rank browsers, what was the ranking based on?
  
  you can't just say things.
  
  Who is Pewdiepie?
  
  I don't give a shit, to be honest. It's a question of morality for me.
  
  Nonsense.
  
  Browsers on iOS are all just Safari, there is no meaningful difference. On older Android FOSS Browser or Fennec + Ublock + Noscript are both faster and more stable than Brave.
  
  It's default for Zorin as well now
Go ahead all you want. I'll never install Brave because it's chromium based and because of their leadership and their choices.
- What do you use? I struggle to not have at least one chromium variant installed for work purposes - I feel like half my jobs' apps or sites don't work in Firefox.
  
  I have ungoogled-chromium installed just in case, but have yet to actually require it.
  
  graphene os + vanadium is secure and private. Still chromium based though.
  
  Would this work for those sites? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/
  
  If you have to use something chromium based just use chromium or Vivaldi if you like something more customized.
  
  At least ime they both work fine. but no one can really tell you what you should use. I avoid brave hard because I trust Peter Theil less than I would trust an addict to give me back the 100$ I loaned them.
  
  ungoogled chromium or cromite?
Firefox can be installed from Mozilla and managed by Obtainium. Much better option all the way around.
- Use Fennec with security and privacy tweaks
i used this piece of crap on windows, and theres always a small brave.exe running in the background even when you disable background running. i have no abiloty to prove its spyware, but doesnt strike confidence.

also we have cromite, librewolf, ironfox, why would i install this crap?
- probably an update service. all browsers do it on windows because the os doesn't handle updates.
  
  fuck their update service. when the browser executed, it can check for a new version like all browsers did for 20 years.
- Come on, it's open source. It has some analytics but definitely not spyware
  
  Many types of malware are open source
  
  Come on, it's open source.
  
  Oh wow, when you put it that way! 🤪
- LibreWolf does not exist on Android?
  
  indeed, i just said this in a more general cross system kinda way
  
  Not in name, but by all means the idea does.
Brave has a good marketing team.
I gave Brave a try back in the early days. The Brave wallet was useless and something I didn't wanted. There wasn't much to differentiate it from Chrome back then on desktop. On mobile, it has built in Adblock but that's it. Vivaldi, IMO, bundles in more features for a Chromium based browser.

Either case, I have been on Firefox for multiple years now despite it's own issues. uBlock Origin is properly supported on it (both desktop and mobile). I think FF(nightly version or Iceraven, a FF fork) is the only browser that allows sideloading of extensions on mobile. Chromium based browsers are way behind in this regard.
- I setup brave on my relative's iOS device because it has anti-tracking builtin. But would welcome suggestions of iOS browsers that preserve privacy.
  
  If Apple didn't effectively prevent browser extensions I would setup Firefox with privacy badger, and uBlock origin with an anti-malware list.
I like Brave and That is great. You know what also great signing the stop killing games initiative EU: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/
That is great. Been using Brave for years.
The best chromium browser
- At the very least the best open source chromium browser although the majority of those on lemmy hate the CEO behind it.
  
  For my use cases I need to use a chromium browser so I use brave on windows, iOS and Linux
  
  Ha, wait until they hear who the main developers are for Lemmy! Not much moral consistency
I wish Firefox would do this. I'm stubbornly always favoring it for a non-Chromium browser
- fennec is on f-droid.
- To add to the others, Fennec is a fantastic replacement and has extension support.
  
  Also heard good things about LibreWolf. Mull had some buggy behaviours I couldn't seem to configure away from so I guess YMMV, but that was my experience.
- Have you tried Obtanium? Allows to download and update from github, among other sources. There's even a site with source configs that's very helpful, and includes firefox.
  
  https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/
  
  Alternatively, Fennec is basically firefox and it's on f-droid.
- I use IronFox which is on Accresent or hosts it's own F-Droid repository alternatively. To me that's even better than vanilla Firefox on F-Droid.
- There are tons of Firefox forks there?
  
  Support from the primary source of development is what I'd prefer. That's where the money is. Mozilla is the only one that could actually have a sizable marketing budget along with employing dozens to hundreds of software developers
i used Vivaldi because it's good & has built in adblocker/tracker blocker that i can customize the hell out of it with tons of custom filter
- It is also proprietary
Thanks for the F-Droid

-Dirty Mike and the boys

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