 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be talking about the brave browser now I've been using the brave browser full-time for now for about a week and I have some thoughts and most of them aren't good thoughts I'm switching back to Firefox, but I think I should tell you why so let's go ahead and jump in so This is what brave looks like for me. I've managed to get an extension so I could some show my custom Startup page and new tab page where that comes up every time open up a new tab, which is good that took a while because the extension Store or whatever on brave is actually the Chrome Web Store and the Chrome Web Store is horrible It's just completely disorganized the Firefox Web Store is way better But that that's beside the point. So I got that set up Strike number one when I switched over was that it did not transfer my bookmarks over well So it actually went through and and it's not even easy for me to show you this because I've hidden the bookmarks So completely so I can't get to them, but um What it did was it completely ignored every folder I had in Firefox and just dump them all into one single folder It's like I was complete. I mean, I'm a little bit of a Nerd when it comes to organizing my bookmarks. They have to be in their organized Titled and tagged folders. It's just a way it has to be and it really triggered my OCD seeing them all dumped into one Folder, so I couldn't even use it I ended up having to go through and use my bookmarks script that I created on video a few weeks ago in order to actually get my Bookmarks, you know able to be used Needless to say that was not a pleasant experience. I could have worked past it For anybody who has been watching this channel for a while you know that my browsing experience looks like this this is Firefox and Firefox allows you to go through and Alter the CSS of the actual Chrome, which is you know the features of Firefox around the sides and Allows you to change this stuff using CSS like I said And I got my you know my bookmarks over here and I got some pen tabs and the tabs in the URL bar And it's highly custom right and I see you know, I spent ages getting This done and ages learning how to do it and it's you know, it's something. I'm you know kind of proud of I'm happy that I'm happy with this workflow So changing to something that looks like that some to something that looks like this Was a difficult chore and you can't change anything here So the only thing you you're allowed to change is by using you can use the system Title bar and border. So if you turn this on you get clothes marks, which is you know, or clothes buttons Which you don't need in a in a tiling window manager. So I got rid of those That's the only thing you can change you can't move the home button or refresh button anything You can't move any of the stuff. It's all just there. So you like in Firefox you even in Firefox if you don't Enable like the user Chrome functionality You can still move around every button like it's just a feature because it's a feature on every open source browser Or open source piece of software really if you right click on a you know a Selection of buttons chances are you can hit the customize thing and move them around almost every piece of software I know of that's open source does that Most of them at least okay, but the point is you can't move anything here. So that was strike number two The third strike and the reason why the biggest reason why I hate brave is the cryptocurrency Nonsense and it is nonsense. So I understand that if you have a ton of like Bitcoin or whatever you're a rich person Congratulations, I'm I didn't get on that bandwagon and it's too late for me now until it crashes Then maybe I'll buy some but I doubt it The the point is you may have a ton of Bitcoin or whatever crystal currency, but she can't spend it anywhere Not really. I'm not and yeah, you know, you can maybe you can buy something from Amazon from out or somewhere online But if you drive through McDonald's or Burger King or whatever and say hey, I got some Bitcoin for you You can I have a burger? It's just not gonna work I mean, it's just not the way it works and for so for me I think that cryptocurrency is nonsense, but that was I mean and we all know the Bitcoin's gonna crash and crash hard eventually. I mean everybody knows that and The NF don't give me start on NFTs, but I mean all that stuff is beside the point the point is Brave does this weird thing with cryptocurrency and that's how it blocks ads but in order to Reward certain creators who have opted into their ad system. They send you these weird Notifications through your notification system that are actually ads now if you're using Dunst It doesn't actually do anything all does is show you the ad and it goes away after like two minutes like I Mean the dismissal time is is very long and it's annoying But you can I mean you can click on it and go away, but I don't want to have every time it comes up You know click on it. I don't want to have to do that The point is is that they they're forever and they don't do anything and they're not Relevant most of the time half the time the advertisements are just for brave itself and and that's especially the case on the mobile on the On the mobile I did it again on the on the phone Um Every advertisement I've gotten on there and yes, they send you push notifications on there that are ads They've all been for brave themselves brave itself It's never once been for something other than brave and I mean that to me that just shows that they can't get advertisers You know now on the bra on the desktop I have seen ads for other things But like I said if you're in a tiling window manager and you're using Dunst for your notification system you click on it Just goes away. So I mean even if you found an advertisement that you wanted to click on and know more about it actually doesn't do anything So that's a that I mean that's one problem. The other problem is that it shows you these ads all the damn time And I'm much rather just see ads, you know if I if I'm gonna see ads on like a website I'd much further know that I'm supporting so like I run new block origin I think pretty much everybody who's a technologically Saying person does, you know, but then I will go through and like whitelist the sites that I know I want to support and then I know I trust so that I can support them, right? With the brave system 99% of the web doesn't support their their cryptocurrency nonsense They have to opt in in order to get that and now you can go to Facebook You can go to YouTube and go to the Verge you can go to Reddit whatever none of these websites So you know have the ability to Take this cryptocurrency and like even individual creators like um if we go to youtube.com. I don't know I Don't know if I went to like anybody's website here. Let's just go to a big youtuber. Let's go to distro tube Let's actually let's go to Brody because I know he uses his uses brave So let's go up here and see if I can actually Like okay, see that's something I didn't know so he is something that somebody that I could donate to So it does work on YouTube, which I didn't actually know but Not that I have any to donate to him. I mean, but the idea is like if I went to another person, let's go to um, I Don't know posk podcastage here. I don't think that he's going to be yeah See he's not this is what you see most of the time not verified yet refresh status And it's just obviously gonna stay the same because he's not verified through brave And why would he be because nobody uses brave for the most part compared to chrome? And I think that's where I come down to is that All the little nitpicky things that I've talked about today. I mean you I Could put up with I said I could put up with any of them even all together. I could put up with the Weird way it does bookmarks or the weird way it Imported my bookmarks. I could go through and fix that or just use my menu. I could put up with The the UI staying the same. I could just get used to it. It's not a huge deal. I mean whatever. I mean It's the way all browsers always used to be so whatever I Could put up with the ads because I could just figure out how I could either disable them because you can disable them Or you know, I think you can change the frequency or I could just figure out how to disable Dunst for Brave I could figure out how to do all those things because I think there's a way to keep a certain application from using Dunst All those things I could put up with But my idea is why oh actually let's go through and show you this This is an ad right here. So this is actually a lending tree ad if I click on this nothing happens So completely completely useless that I should we could just sit there for like two minutes and waited for it to go away But oh and that's how long it would take I think like 60 seconds would be way better, but it's like it feels like two minutes But anyways Like I was saying I could put up all that stuff But I don't understand why I'd want to If I need to use a chromium-based browser, I would just use Google Chrome or I'd use something like the volley which has a unique User experience, you know because you can put the tabs on different places You can put the bookmarks along the side You can do a whole bunch of different things with the volley that you can't do with brave You can't do it with chrome either all that much, you know, you can do it with Firefox because you can go through and Change the user chrome of Firefox, but you can't do it with these other ones So if I was gonna use a chromium-based browser user volley or I just use chrome there's nothing with brave that says hey use me that's makes it special because It's not special. It has this weird cryptocurrency nonsense and That most people and most creators can't or don't take advantage of And on top of that it's not a good ad blocker It doesn't have a good ad blocker build-in so the whole thing is that you're supposed to be using their ads instead of the ads that are embedded on the page to support the creators, right and The ad blocking in brave is just not good It blocks most advertisements but half the time it leaves holes where the ads are supposed to be instead of removing those holes And it makes the layout of the web pages look really odd So half the time I just installed you blocks orange in any ways and use that as the ad blocker And if I'm just gonna do that then I'll stand Firefox or I'll use Vivaldi or I use you know Google Chrome There's no real reason to use Brave I mean I understand if you're going to be if you're like a huge YouTube creator So like there's a reason why Brody Robertson uses brave and that's because he gets paid to do so I mean not a lot of money obviously not getting paid millions of dollars But the same thing with Luke Smith they they make and they have a big enough following to get You know some Kickback from brave that makes sense for them But for the normal person there I could sit here and use brave tell the end of the year and probably earn like five dollars I mean, that's just it. I mean granted. It's five dollars more than I'd earn if I use a different browser But I have to put up with all this other weird stuff, right? It's a thing so my experience with brave has not been I mean, it's not it's not a bad browser It's not it's a it a little bit faster than Firefox You know because chromium is faster than Firefox and Chrome is faster than Firefox But other than that I mean there's no like I said, there's no redeeming Qualities that say Matt you have to use this browser over Firefox now There are reasons not to use Firefox. I mean you can disagree with a ton of Firefoxes Or them you can disagree with the management of Firefox is in their political stances all the time and I do I think they should stay out of Politics all the time. I also think that they should probably not take Google's four hundred million dollars and then spend it all on the top like five percent of the executive branch You know like they're CEO makes like three million dollars a year or something like that some crazy amount of money I don't know if it's as if that's the number, but I mean it's it's an insane amount of money, right? And it's an open-source thing and it doesn't take all it's a huge organization for just basically one product But that's just fire so I mean there's reasons not to use Firefox And I've tried to find alternatives to Firefox, especially after their whole We're gonna censor the web thing that went on a couple months ago, but I haven't been successful I'm still on fire stocks because of the user Chrome thing. So anyways, so that's brave in The comments below. Let me know. Do you use brave? Do you use something else? I'm sure I'm gonna get somebody out there saying well cryptocurrency isn't nonsense I have lots of cryptocurrency like well, you know, I have lots of cryptocurrency too I have the library stuff and I have some stuff from you from brave. It's not worth anything. I Don't have any of the I don't have any of the cryptocurrency that's worse than anything That's probably why I think it's nonsense if I had some Bitcoin I'd probably it was really great and say woo. I got some I got 20 grand in my pocket, you know, I Don't have any on that's just sad for me. I guess anyways Thanks for watching make sure you follow us on Twitter at the Linux cash You can follow us on Facebook at the Linux cast You also support support us on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast with that in mind I'd like to thank our current patrons Devon Marcus. We have a new person I'm gonna mess up your name Maglen Message me and tell me how to pronounce your name cuz I'm just gonna butcher that American cam. 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