It's true that it does display ads, and there are links to several cryptocurrency services. They're "safe" ads, and you can turn them off.
It's true that it does display ads, and there are links to several cryptocurrency services. They're "safe" ads, and you can turn them off.
Honestly if you must have a chromium browser use Vivaldi, otherwise use Firefox. There is no reason to use brave whatsoever.
Vivaldi is absolute spyware. And firefox have bugs that isn't solved yet.
All software has bugs, it's literally impossible to have any program that does anything meaningful that is bug free.
Why ask our opinions if you already made up your mind? If your trying to make us think Brave is great, this isn't the way to do it.
I'm surprised to hear that Brave is bug-free. Ads and crypto scam are doing miracles!
It's true Vivaldi is not free open source, the code is owned by Vivaldi however, the source code is freely available to audit which is the main security benefit you would get from a FOSS browser like Brave and Firefox. It is plainly not spyware.
Yes there is the security risk that someone might find an exploit in the source code, and if Vivaldi is notified, users would have to wait for Vivaldi to fix it. As opposed to a third party potentially issuing a patch quicker.
But this is also basically true for Firefox and Brave. If a security flaw is found it's more than likely going to be the Firefox or Brave team that fixes it first.