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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Mostly it's their attitude to controversy.

Brave has had several major issues over the past few years and they didn't reverse course until press got bad enough for them to make a statement and try for damage control. This includes:

  • Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue

  • Inserting their own referral codes into auto complete when users navigate to Binance

  • Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent

  • Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying

On top of all that, it's based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.

you can turn off the google stuff

Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying

there's other ways of using TOR, and I don't even think they do that anymore, they fixed the problem after the criticism came out

Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent

Been using Brave for over 6 years now, that never happened on any of my machines

Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue

they don't do that anymore, and honestly, I'd rather have it that way than allow google or facebook or any other website to have more money, but adblocking needs to be multi-layered anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

you can turn off the google stuff

until google allows that