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Why I recommend against Brave. (thelibre.news)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I mean, it's even listed on the reputable PrivacyTools website. Why am I telling you to steer clear of this browser, then?

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[–] [email protected] 455 points 2 weeks ago (112 children)

tldr:

CEO was forcefully ousted from Firefox for anti-LGBTQ views and donations.
Replaced existing ads on sites with Brave's own "private" ads.
Collected crypto on behalf of others without their knowledge or consent
Injected referral links into crypto websites to steal crypto revenue
Put ads in the new page tab
Shipped a TOR feature that leaked DNS
Doesn't disclose the ID of their search engine crawler via useragent
Removed "strict" fingerprinting protection
CEO is generally a right-wing dick.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Those are good reasons to ditch a product. Yet, at the same time, inside the Apple ecosystem this is the only browser that allows cross platform watching of yt without any ads, therefore suffocating Google and the fat cat MKBHD influencers from income.

So it’s like an evil to tame another evil to me atm.

Of course the best path forward would be to ditch both Brave and yt and then just get Nebula/patreon or something for serious content browsing.

I’m curious though: if I just use Brace only with a few yt tabs open and never open the new empty tab or visit another site, does Brave get any revenue from me?

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

Can you not use Firefox on apple products? They've got extensions for that I'm sure

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