It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
  • UnimportantHuman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I mean I’m open to other mobile browsers if you have suggestions. On my actual PC I use Mullvad and Librewolf.

      • 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Brave Browser Mobile has adblocker - a good adblocker, at that, since I’ve never had problems with Youtube’s anti-adblock measures. Sucks that the people who run it suck, but the people who profit from ads probably (in a net sense) suck even more.

        IronFox does look pretty good too, though. Never heard of that.

    • Cliff@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago
      • Fennec
      • IronFox
      • DuckDuckGo Private Browser might be good too
      • Firefox might have anti-features, but should still be better than Brave
      • Chromium should also be better than Brave, but i usually discourage people from using chrome based browsers, because using them strengthens googles monopoly