•  TWeaK   ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) 
      23•1 year ago

      Yes exactly. This is just yet another of Brave’s long history of controversial moves.

      Typically, these have been followed by the CEO going on a marketing campaign. The new users drown out the controversy.

    •  rolandtb303   ( @rolandtb303@lemmy.ml ) 
      9•1 year ago

      ye first time i heard about brave was in a sponsor segment on a youtube video, my first thoughts were “lol another chromium browser? rewards? bar? ok this seems shady as hell” and sure enough it is indeed shady af. the Tor mode had DNS leaks way back (besides who in their right mind would even use tor in a chromium browser), URL injections, brave not giving out BAT, also them spam mailing Brave pamphlets to customers (physical mail too, it was through i think UPS, which idk if that’s technically considered a privacy violation, but to me, mailing someone a pamphlet out of the blue when you use their browser without your consent is quite literally a privacy violation, no matter where you got the data from or how you mailed it).

      been gladly using firefox ever since version 3, best browser of all time.

    •  gengear   ( @gengear@lemmy.cafe ) 
      2•1 year ago

      I don’t think they’ve been that shady, the worst thing they did was say “we’re blocking ads” then said “You can show ads but only through us, and you need a braves token wallet” but else that, I don’t think theres much, and when compared to the history of Microsoft and google, which are the major alternatives, that’s such a small issue, especially when they also offer so many nice extras.

      I mostly use LibreWolf now, at least for my main browser, but I do miss the instant access to internet archive and tor, but I think its worth missing out on, to avoid some of the creep I’m feeling from Brave.

      Does anyone have a link to a list of controversy’s that Brave has been involved in? I think it’d be good to know, rather than just going of both feeling, and 2 misdeeds.

      •  Landrin201   ( @Landrin201@lemmy.ml ) English
        2•1 year ago

        Every time I try to use Firefox I run into the same incredibly annoying issue.

        Sometimes tabs will randomly not work. I’ll open a new tab, go to, say, Google, and it will just hang, it never loads. Doesn’t matter what site I try to load. It happens seemingly randomly. Sometimes it won’t happen on the first page load, but the second.

        It’s the entire reason I witched to brave, because I couldn’t figure the problem out and every time I posted to reddit about it I would be told that nothing was wrong and it must be my add-ons, despite the fact it also happened when I un-installed all of them.

        It persisted to a new install, too. No idea what caused it and it’s so annoying that I don’t want to bother trying…

        •  majestictechie   ( @majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com ) English
          2•1 year ago

          That’s a shame. I use FF most of my day for work and I’ve never had any issues like that. I was thinking of add-ons too, but since you uninstalled them all AND it carried to a new installation.

          I use Brave for my personal stuff, but Brave has had some dodgy stuff in recent times and I don’t trust other browser’s than FF right now.

          •  Landrin201   ( @Landrin201@lemmy.ml ) English
            1•1 year ago

            Yeah the weirdest part for me was that it carried to a new install; I’ve NEVER seen another program where that happened. But it happened THREE different times, it 100% carried over, or at the least was so inherent to something in my setup that it started happening again within 2 days of re-installing.

      •  Logh   ( @Logh@lemmy.ml ) English
        2•1 year ago

        And if you are feeling extra frisky, install noscript to pick and choose what sources of js you are willing to run and/or be terrified/furious of all the non-relevant scripts sites run.

        •  Vlyn   ( @Vlyn@lemmy.ml ) English
          7•1 year ago

          I actually did that for a while (on my PC at least). Major pain in the ass unfortunately.

          Of course it’s good to block that crap, but usability takes too much of a nose dive. I do live in the EU though, so when it comes to data protection things have gotten a lot better in the last years.

          •  Logh   ( @Logh@lemmy.ml ) English
            1•1 year ago

            I’ve been using it for a few years now and by now picking out the scripts for site navigation and finding the relavant cdn is pretty much automatic now. If I find a site that is just an absolute js clusterfuck, I just run it in porno mode and let the scrips loose and hope for the best until I find what I went there for. I even take the time to reject cookies manually as per my right, haha. Maybe it will show up on some stat somewhere, a flaccid message, but a message none the less.

            What did you think of the recent deal the EU made with the giants? As an EU citizen I find it concerning, because it might be a slippery slope.

  •  Arotrios   ( @Arotrios@kbin.social ) 
    13•1 year ago

    The more surprising part of this article is that enough people use Brave to create enough of a dataset to train AI.

    I have a feeling that in a future AI society, one trained on Brave data would be considered special needs.

  •  torbjørn   ( @torbjoern@feddit.de ) English
    11•1 year ago

    ITT: Cryptobros and apologists finding new and creative ways to justify the behaviour of a company, the head of which was ousted from his last position because of crude political views, i.e. not granting people basic rights.

  •  Lamy   ( @Lamy@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English
    1•1 year ago

    This is important information but it really should be compared to google chrome, safari, edge, and Firefox default settings, which are all bad for privacy, and when combined, make up 99% of browsers.

    This article is written like everyone already knows how to install and use librewolf.