Zorin 17.3 - Brave Browser

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I like the brave browser in general, it works decent, fast, less memory footprint than firefox - blur issue off the hop was not good.

Here is the one problem I have with it. I do not like the etherium crypto wallet stuff that's integrated by default. I'm just not a fan of crypo-junk it being part of the base browser by default.

For me personally, it ruins the eco-system of a solid foundation with minimalist approach.

Personally opinion, but it makes the zorin experience a tad less 'professional' and more hackerish ...

My thoughts.

In saying that I am a fan of tracker and ad blocking as they make web experience horrendous and I do like the brave search ...

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I haven't had any time to take a look at the new ISO release, but as far as I'm aware, a lot of the stuff that may be questionable is disabled OR Zorin has gone through and made some changes to the defaults to disable anything that may have been enabled by default.

I also personally have never used Brave, so I'm not sure of the whole thing, but that's as far as my understanding goes as to the new release.

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I've used the Brave browser a long time ago and it was good - just ad blocking etc.

I see the web3 settings, just defaults, I don't see the 'harm' ... Just from a solid base perspective, I'm not sure the direction brave is taking - ie. competing with opera? which has a host of features ...

Is this an alternative / option in the future ?

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By default, Zorin disabled/hid the stuff that you don't like, so it's just not there unless you put it back. This includes:

  • Brave News
  • Leo AI
  • Brave Rewards
  • Sponsored Background Images
  • Brave Wallet

These things are part of Brave, but by default (on Zorin), they're not active, so they won't be in your way.

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That makes sense - for some reason my Leo AI was enabled - maybe I clicked on something at some point ...

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I know this article is a few years old now, but Zorin and users may want to read Questionable leadership and business practices of Brave Browser

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It came up a lot when Zorin first announced that they were looking to replace Firefox. I'm only slightly aware of the issues, but they were definitely considered.

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I read the article --- not sure that would be the take or reason in regards to the CEO - who cares what goes on in California? I certainly don't ... but in regards to the browser itself, the crypto concerns are concerns enough for me. Crypto is beyoind sketchy from a clean base perspective and would be better off as an add on someone may want.

AI browser integration and VPN are things that Opera has done.

Disabling I guess is a start but - my opinion - i would reconsider paying for the Pro version, if really what I am paying for is software with advertising / crypto built in etc. -- not saying don't support Zorin Pro either.

my opinion, take it or leave it -- fire up librewolf out of the box and nothing but what it says it does, simple ad blocking, de tracking, and privacy by default etc. -- add on's are purely up to the end user.

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Locklear93 is right. What matters to me, is the Zorin team disabled the less legit features by default, which should make the Brave browser safer to use.

Due to Mozilla's latest policy updates to Firefox, it has made their browser unusable to anyone who cares about their data IMO.

From what I understand, Brave is doing a better job with that issue. None of this negates a users ability to install and use whatever they want.

All that changes here, is Zorin OS 18 will come with Brave by default. Linux is really awesome, because it allows us to choose what software we want to use.

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