Brave vs Firefox: What is the MOST private Browser?

Firefox vs Brave comparison, which is the most private?! Let's as objectively as possible see where each (or neither) browser excels for your privacy & security.

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00:00 Introduction
00:30 Are they FOSS?
00:55 How do they treat FOSS?
01:29 Who's Behind The Project/Company?
01:55 Funding Sources Explained
04:00 Relationships to Big Tech
05:30 Browser Engines
06:41 Sketchy Moments & Scandals
10:14 Out-of-the-box Concerns
13:15 Are they SPYWARE?!?!
13:25 Technical Security Overview
14:24 Fingerprinting Protections
15:02 Extension Availability
16:07 Multi-device Syncing Comparison
16:49 Clients Compared (Very VERY subjective, Try both!)
17:40 Notable Features
19:48 Out-of-the-box Security Features
21:08 Out-of-the-box Privacy Features
22:32 Hardening Options
23:34 Final Notes, Comments, & Takeaways!
#brave #firefox #comparison

[techlore]

Let's (PRODUCTIVELY) share our favorite between these two privacy-oriented browsers! Which do you use? Both? Neither? Why? Let the world know below ⏬

[kneelesh]

I support firefox because we need a second browser engine to exist

[User-kqod]

Quite simply:
Tor is the only option for anonymity

Firefox is the best for privacy and security when properly hardened

Brave is a newbie friendly and highly compatible browser that does things easy for the average user

[altrogeruvah]

This was great man, no long winded intros, good use of spreadsheet, good trivia etc. Would love to see more of these!

[drumetul_dacic]

Bottom line: Mozilla Firefox is more customizable and can be configured (hardened) by expert users to be more privacy-friendly than Brave. However, by default, Firefox is not very privacy-friendly, as it sends telemetry data to Mozilla quite regularly. An alternative to hardened Firefox, would be LibreWolf.

[rwx-zach]

I love Firefox because of about:config/customization and competition in browserspace is good. But Brave is good for out of the box privacy and for when I desperately need to buy things online.

[notionpicture]

19:25 wrong, Firefox also has profiles builtin, the containers is just an extension. Going to about:profiles in Firefox gives you an interface to manage your profiles, you can also launch Firefox with the -p option to launch directly into the profiles manager.

[gpmcneil]

As a novice in the digital privacy arena, I am grateful for videos like this one. I appreciate the objective data points presented, while adding your own personal opinions (AND calling them out as just your personal opinions). Thank you for all of the work you and your team do for the digital privacy community.

[ggj]

Firefox has been my go to browser for almost 15 years now. I love how customisable it is so you don’t see any ads anymore. The fact that it’s the default browser on Linux and Tor is based on it tells me it’s a strong browser

[twilightaesthetic]

I love how techlore also critizes those who are on his side when it comes to user privacy among other stuff, keep up the good work.

[inscrutablemungus]

From what I've read, hardened firefox is far better than brave, i.e turning off intrusive telemetry is easier on firefox/icecat than brave. And I don't really agree with brave's crypto tokens -- or targeted online advertising in general, for that matter. Way to shady for me.

EDIT:
10:43 Here is my problem with BAT. First off, I don't have a problem with the idea of ads. I have a problem with the idea of massive data-driven targeted ads that can predict when you're most likely to impulse buy. That's not healthy for society and it's literally preying on people who are vulnerable to impulse manipulation. All Brave does with BAT is replace existing targeted ads with their own targeted ads that the content creator has less control over. If I choose to set up my brave rewards such that no BAT rewards go to a certain creator, they don't get a penny (even if I spend multiple hours on their platform). Interestingly, you can't turn off Brave's own share, I guess they made sure to cover their own access to the gravy train.

The only ads that I will tolerate are ones that use no data whatsoever from my end. In other words, if I click into a site at the same time as someone from around the world, the two of us should get the same ad regardless of location or behavior. That's why I have no problem at all with sponsor segments on youtube videos. Two people watching the same video will get the same ad.

I understand that this will cut into the funding cycle that the internet relies on, but I genuinely believe that even an internet built around paywalls is a better solution than one with hypertuned machine learning algorithms targeting the least sophisticated users.

[doktorceykil]

I'm a Firefox guy. I've a dual boot PC (Linux/Windows) plus an Android phone. I switched to Brave a couple of years ago (maybe 3). The bookmark sync feature was shit. Whenever I added a bookmark or edit one, it made duplicates on all machines (and duplicates of that duplicates). After that I visited the Github Issues and I saw 2k+ bugs and features. A quick browsing showed that they were working almost only for the crypto side, little to no bugfixes. After that I switched to Firefox and never looked back.

Life is too short for spending it on incompleted softwares. Peace.

[magnummer]

I'm really enjoying how insanely fast Brave has been for me. Firefox has been really slow on my machine, and doing weird things like lowering the fps of youtube videos once on full screen.
Also Brave has been actually "plug and play" so far. I mean, I'm using it with literally zero extensions installed and it is perfect for my use.

[Waitwhat]

The web sucks right now, not gonna lie. So having two different browsers is a minimum to me. Brave has totally replaced Chromium for this me now.
Firefox is still my daily driver, with all of the addons that make it great for my use.

[itachi]

Firefox also has profiles and all add-on, theme, settings, sync ... is seperate between the profiles.

Profiles have been in Firefox since over 7 years but it was never advertised plus it's a bit finicky, you do a bit of setup and then every time you start Firefox it will ask what profile you want to use for that session.

[toastloop]

I use Firefox with a customized arkenfox profile and a few extensions. The ability to easily harden firefox is one of the main reasons I switched back from chrome. Brave is great for an out-of-the-box experience, but it's difficult to go beyond that. I think it boils down to whether or not you're willing to put in the time and effort to understand what you browser is doing and how it works or if you just want something that works out of the box and has a few nice features. Neither approach is wrong, but being an advanced user I won't be switching to Brave anytime soon. I also have personal issues with their CEO as mentioned in the video.

[etherbeans]

I wish you put more light on Brendan. Despite the controversies his development in the web have been huge steps to where we are today with the creation of JavaScript and moving it to ECMA because of ECMA's notorious history with Microsoft and working on Netscape, Firefox, and now Brave.

[redeyesdrogon]

this was a great video comparing both these browsers. I like how it went in-depth and how unbiased this was.

I use both browsers for different reasons though. I like both of them

Containers is why I use Firefox more than other browsers, I just love to have only one browser window open with different tabs in different containers, and as far as I know you can't do the same in other browsers you need a separate window.

[benf]

#2 reason I stick with Firefox: Ctrl + Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order.
#1 reason I stick with Firefox: Multi-Account Containers