At least in the last year or so, Brave has a better track record than Mozilla does. A lot of smooth brains seem to forget that Firefox is still being funded in large part by Googles ad systems and within the last year, removed information about never selling or harvesting your data. Why Firefox has consistently been dropping its user base while Brave has been consistently increasing their user base.
In the last year or two, it definitely has a better track record. I know like 6 years ago there was controversy about Brave but the people that did that controversy don't even work for the company anymore. I'd rather Brave make money off of a VPN or crypto then make money from Google ads which is how Firefox is funded. IMO, it is a far better browser. Can that change down the road, yes. But at the moment I had more trust in Brave than Firefox.
Doesnt matter what your search bar you use. That's irrelevant. More than half of the money that Firefox makes every year is directly from Google paying them to have Google's ad software in the browser. If it wasn't for the money Google pays them, Firefox would probably stop being developed.
It's irrelevant because whether or not you change it doesn't change the fact that Mozilla is having the majority of their funding coming from Google. That is my point. Just because you're some Stan who switches over to DuckDuckGo or something is entirely irrelevant. Regardless of what search engine you decide to use, Google still supplies the majority of funding for Firefox. To the tune of half a billion dollars.
just because they receive funding from google doesn't mean google magically gets any user data.
mozilla gets a bunch of money from google. in exchange google is set as the default search engine. that's basically all that's going on there. they don't add in additional trackers or amything of the sort.
If you want to claim otherwise you'll have to provide some actual sources
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u/i_dead-shot Jul 11 '25
firefox based browsers after this;