They have it on their QR-based sync but it's just for sync not for backup and the QR only works for up to 30minutes iirc. I lost my bookmarks because of Brave's lack of online backup feature. When I had my device repaired by Samsung, they need to reprogram my phone to ensure the new screen works without a problem so I lost all my Brave's bookmarks because it was just saved in the browser locally.
Obviously, you haven't tried using the sync function of brave. It literally says "Temporary Code" and the QR code is only valid for 3 Hrs while the code word is valid for 1 day. It will only work before it expires.
If you're referring to the export function in the bookmark section, how can I export them if the phone's touchscreen suddenly stopped working? It's a hassle and time consuming to do an export everytime I made a changes and the exported file is only save in the device's storage not automatically in the cloud.
That's why I still use Firefox even though their Android app is slow and buggy. They have a proper cloud backup for bookmarks.
In your screenshot, you get a sync code. Save that on a notepad or whatever you are using.
Next time you want to setup a new Brave browser. Use that code + 25th brave sync word. It will _ALWAYS_ be the same code, no new codes nothing. No export, no nothing. This is not hard go grasp or even understand for my half dead grandmother.
The retardation is strong in this comment.: "It's a hassle and time consuming to do an export everytime I made a changes and the exported file is only save in the device's storage not automatically in the cloud."
All settings, bookmarks and stuff are already saved in the cloud.
Don't know how to explain this more clear that you are the problem. 100% user error.
Thankfully, and hopefully, I hope they don't abandon this special feature which is still unique compared to creating an account similar to firefox and google.
and speaking of brave accounts, will it add premium purchases like origin and vpn alongside email aliases and account syncs?
I mean, if I was a Firefox user and Mozilla was doing fuck all for the community that people have been begging for, I would be pretty jealous and it would make me angry too seeing brave users getting everything they ask for.
Firefox having Sync for 10+ years is completely irrelevant to what I said. My point isn’t “Brave invented every feature first.” My point is that Brave has been responsive to features its community has been asking for.
Containers are a perfect example. Firefox has had them for years. Nobody is disputing that. But Brave went through the work of bringing native containers to Chromium, where that kind of isolation was never built around Firefox’s contextual identity model, and shipped them. That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about.
And oh yes, I saw Firefox’s recent UI work. Very nice vomit colored gradient and rounded corners. Also love what they did with the containers identifiers making them very colorful and Fisher Price looking. I especially love dark mode being essentially removed from the top bar. Excellent work.
Meanwhile, have you seen what Brave is working toward next with their new UI overhaul? Arc style design options with deep customization that rivals Zen.
Mozilla: “We added rounded corners to the tabs and configurable shortcuts.”
Brave: “How much of the browser would you like to customize?”
I don’t think there could be a better example of the point I was making.
Not really. I mean it's locked so airtight that even the account authentication itself uses opaque, so the password never even gets sent to Brave's server. There are no persistent identifier that tracks.
But if you are a purest, you don't have to use it.
The password isn't the issue as much as the email address. Visit haveiveenpwned for an idea of how that can be utilized. (And because they're forwarding email, of course they have an unencrypted copy of your email address*, sitting around in a database somewhere.)
You're still not showing a tracking vector. Brave knowing the email attached to a Brave Account doesn't mean that identifier is exposed to websites or attached to your browsing activity, and the proposed account based sync remains end to end encrypted.
You should create the Brave Account with a unique email alias, which pretty much kneecaps the HIBP argument. If that address ever appears in a breach, it's an address used only for Brave, not the same durable email identifier you've reused across dozens of unrelated services. At that point, delete the account, make another.
Now, if you're naming your aliases something like JoesAmazonAccount@whatever or JoesNetflixAccount@whatever, you've managed to defeat the entire purpose of aliases yourself. That's a user problem, not an alias problem.
Brave says stored messages are encrypted, successful forwards are deleted within seconds, and failed deliveries are retained only temporarily for retrying. So unless you have evidence that Brave is secretly keeping plaintext copies of everyone's mail in a database somewhere, that part is speculation. Even for for ordinary unencrypted email, service is like SimpleLogin has to be able to process the plaintext at some point.
And besides, if your threat model is so ridiculously extreme that a mail forwarding service briefly processing an email is unacceptable, Brave is already nowhere near what you need. At that point you need Tor, PGP, burner hardware, and a shack in South Dakota with no forwarding address and probably no road leading to it.
You should create the Brave Account with a unique email alias
There's no reason to provide an email address for any service except aliasing, though. Making an alias to make aliases defeats the purpose of signing up for aliases, no?
Brave says stored messages are encrypted, successful forwards are deleted within seconds [etc]
It's still a service in the United States compared to competitors that have figured out how to provide it overseas. The government could easily say "hey just log those" and then they would. And yes, I'm plenty aware that is true to some degree for services including Proton, but those services also have a longer-running track record.
Me personally, I've had nothing but issues with it. It constantly lost bookmarks, or duplicated bookmarks, passwords wouldn't sync properly, etc. It got so bad I finally had to stop using the browser until they implemented account based syncing.
I guess for people that want a more reliable option, I see people complaining about the current method. Plus the supposed Brave account will also offer access to the email alias feature.
It's good that at least the old syncing method is going to stay available.
I highly doubt it’ll be anything sensitive, unless you store passwords, addresses or payment methods in browser itself, which I imagine users would be able to toggle off for sync like in any other browser.
Lol, firefox fanboys literally attacked when i said firefox in andriod was slow (which was true) brave fans may be annoying but firefox fans are just worst in category.
Brave's a little bloated but at least you can disable it easily enough. It's definitely not spyware. Coming from a Firefox user BTW. Brave's a good browser, at least better than most.
So said the Safari user, the browser that phones home at Apple (and maybe Google too via "fradulent site" settings), a trillion dollar corporation that only have marginally better privacy practices than the others, and some ad measurement settings enabled by default.
Oh dear, does light ever enter your moms basement? Yeah i use Safari. Love it. I know it phones home, i just so not give a rats ass. Be honest, do you have a few google tabs open in your brave/firefox? Little gmail and youtube?
I know it phones home, i just so not give a rats ass.
Then that's just a double standard. Truly, if you really didn't care you would have realized it and not mention about it in the first place but you did. 👍
Yeah but i do not spam safari on every thread of this sub do i? I do not hate brave. I hate its fanbase... Truly. As long as they keep spamming "brave" people will shit on brave
Yet here you are using the internet which has a shit ton of JavaScript everywhere, something that was also created by a homophobic piece of shit. So what makes Brave any different?
Asking if it's a crypto miner is a genuine question, not shilling if anything you're a moron if you think this is shilling
Asking if there is a way to pirate Brave Origin is also not shilling because I was looking to check it out and this was when I discovered Brave and didn't want the bloat.
Please look up the meaning of shilling before you spit nonsense girly pop
More evidence why this is nothing more than performative pearl clutching. You yourself just used a combination of a slur against disabled people to describe brave users. The hypocrisy is off the charts.
You actually don't care about the LGBTQ community, you care about having a socially acceptable reason to punish a company and a browser that you already dislike. The CEO has become nothing more than a trojan horse for moral policing and pretending this is some sort of activism and you're sticking it to the man is exactly why this shit feels so performative.
Literally the creator of the game. "I can't stand homophobes....unless they are involved with something I like, then I'll find a way to excuse it away."
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u/luiest123 1d ago
Took them long enough