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Its a bad chromium fork with a crypto snowball scheme attached and some very scummy practices done.
Be “Brave” use a better browser.
[winks in Firefox]
winks in librewolf with uBlock, LocalCDN and altered UserAgent and fixed resolution of 1920×1080
PS: I am paranoid
There’s also the lesser-known Pale Moon browser, of which I actually tried using, to quite a normal success, on our former desktop PC, two years ago.
I would love to use librewolf but somehow it stops being able to resolve web pages where every other browser I have installed is still able to. It’s the only thing stopping me from making the jump full time.
Brave has always seemed shady as hell to me. I don’t understand why so many tech people keep recommending it.
I never started in the first place.
It always seemed like snake oil to me.
Author of this article, Corbin Davenport, should also stop using Facebook.
Can’t stop using something I’ve never installed.
If you are basing the use of a product on the politics of people involved in the project, then you are going to end up with no products to use.
If you are basing it on it being based on Chromium and having a crypto scam built in, then I get that. That being said, the browser isn’t super bad, just not good. Viva La Firefox.
especially with opensource stuff, a lot of devs are either extreme right or extreme left. That doesn’t mean they can’t make a great project. Suckless is a good example for extreme right. Lemmy for extreme left.
- CaptObvious ( @CaptObvious@literature.cafe ) 3•1 year ago
Never started. What have they done now?
Nothing new. It’s just an overview of how shady and scammy the browser is. I still see a lot of people recommending it without knowing the backstory.
AI summary:
- Brave Browser has marketed itself as a privacy-preserving web browser and has gained attention from cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
- The company behind Brave, founded by Brendan Eich, faced backlash due to Eich’s previous donation in support of California’s Proposition 8, which aimed to ban same-sex marriage.
- Brave initially planned to replace ads with its own ad units and split revenue with publishers, but this idea was met with legal issues and criticism from both inside and outside the company.
- Brave introduced Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) as a way to reward users for viewing ads and content, but the rewards are minimal and the value of BAT is volatile.
- Brave has incorporated various cryptocurrency-related features, including a full crypto wallet, but many of its crypto partners have faced controversies and scandals.
- Brave was involved in a privacy scandal in which affiliate codes were added to URLs typed into the address bar, allowing the company to collect revenue from user signups or purchases.
- The article concludes that Brave is a flawed software project and should not be used, recommending Firefox or Vivaldi as privacy-focused alternatives.
The article appears to be biased against Brave Browser and its associated company, presenting a negative viewpoint on various aspects of the browser’s development, functionality, partnerships, and the background of its founder. The tone is critical and skeptical at best.
This reads like ai generated text.
It’s perfectly acceptable to have reservations about a browser, but this article seems to be quite exaggerated.
Found chatgpt.
It’s not a sign of intelligence to choose to ban a technology because of the opinions of its creator
And if we’re going to start talking about creators let’s start talking about the people that made this site LMAO maybe it’s not the best candlelight to hold this issue against…
What‘s the best alternative for iOS and macOS? The first articles that come up, rank Brave as one of the best for iOS.
I liked that it blocked all YT ads by default and had tab management.