The fact that they default to Brave Browser already makes me wary. I have plenty of issues with Mozilla myself, especially their recent trend of integrating AI into the browser but I would rather use a fork or even vanilla Chromium rather than Brave. I know it’s just the default and you can switch easily but the fact they landed on THAT out of all available options doesn’t give me confidence, I would go with Mint instead.
Brave might not be as hardcore “foss” oriented like some other browsers. But the stats don’t lie. Out of the box it gives good protection, non techies won’t be hardening their firefox configs. Zorin is about giving an easy onboarding. Brave just fits that user friendly design principle.
Just because Brave comes out as “the best” on privacy tests doesn’t mean it’s worth it to support a commercial browser that pushes AI, cryptocurrencies, that blocks ads while replacing them with their own locked behind their system that they get a cut from, that added their referral links to websites you visited and only removed them after severe backlash, whose CEO is a notorious homophobe that donated 1000$ to a campaign aiming to ban gay marriage rights in California. Zorin might claim they chose it based on merit and remove a lot of these features from it but they still push people to use it and increase its market share.
Most browsers push AI, I’ve never touched their crypto stuff in years of use, so easy to toggle off.
Honestly I like the concept of what they tried to do with ads and crypto. It’s a model that atleast pays back the user, al other ads are just leeching off your data without giving anything back.
Yah okay that last one I can’t defend 🙄. CEO’s certainly should shut their mouths more nowadays
The fact that they default to Brave Browser already makes me wary. I have plenty of issues with Mozilla myself, especially their recent trend of integrating AI into the browser but I would rather use a fork or even vanilla Chromium rather than Brave. I know it’s just the default and you can switch easily but the fact they landed on THAT out of all available options doesn’t give me confidence, I would go with Mint instead.
that must be new as I have not uninstalled anything and brave is not on mine. I added several browsers so im not 100% what was on by default.
privacytests.org
Brave might not be as hardcore “foss” oriented like some other browsers. But the stats don’t lie. Out of the box it gives good protection, non techies won’t be hardening their firefox configs. Zorin is about giving an easy onboarding. Brave just fits that user friendly design principle.
Just because Brave comes out as “the best” on privacy tests doesn’t mean it’s worth it to support a commercial browser that pushes AI, cryptocurrencies, that blocks ads while replacing them with their own locked behind their system that they get a cut from, that added their referral links to websites you visited and only removed them after severe backlash, whose CEO is a notorious homophobe that donated 1000$ to a campaign aiming to ban gay marriage rights in California. Zorin might claim they chose it based on merit and remove a lot of these features from it but they still push people to use it and increase its market share.
Most browsers push AI, I’ve never touched their crypto stuff in years of use, so easy to toggle off. Honestly I like the concept of what they tried to do with ads and crypto. It’s a model that atleast pays back the user, al other ads are just leeching off your data without giving anything back.
Yah okay that last one I can’t defend 🙄. CEO’s certainly should shut their mouths more nowadays