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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The ceo is a bigoted asshole, Brave is chromium, it was initially funded by Peter Thiel and they're literally just trying to make their own adsense network.

The self-proclaimed privacy focused browser is tracking your browsing and want to serve you personalized ads, and I think they want to use that tracking data for AI training as well, meaning other people can potentially access it.

And lets not forget about their crypto currency that you can earn by turning on special ads. Which they seemingly unironically called it "Basic Attent Tokens"..

TL;DR: The company is basically a sham company trying to usher in a dystopia. Where you'll get paid for staring at ads, while having all your data stolen and sold back to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I see no reason to use any other browser than Firefox and maybe Librewolf.

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

Firefox on desktop is awesome. Firefox on mobile is painful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am using Brave on iOS mainly because of its superb YouTube support - It has a built in ad block, can download videos offline and play minimized. Is there any way I can achieve this with any other browser? I would switch immediately.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So Mull browser, right?

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

Yeah top 4 browser are Firefox, librewolf, tor, and mull~vad~ for sure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mull and mullvad are at least two different things

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

Autocorrect so strong it turns your browser into a VPN