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[–] [email protected] 209 points 11 months ago (72 children)

Your friendly reminder that the Brave CEO is Mozillas old CEO, who was fired from Mozilla for being unapologetically homophobic.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago

Since everyone else is piling on negatively, I appreciated your friendly reminder.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

Worse than merely being homophobic, as he financially supported politicians and causes that worked to prevent equal rights.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 11 months ago (13 children)

The scam company brave? The one that scams people? With their scam based crypto rewards that don't pay out? THAT brave?

[–] [email protected] 113 points 11 months ago (9 children)

There's no reason to hate Brave unless you have a political bias against their CEO.

Besides in 2016, when Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners

And when the CEO unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list.

And in 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent.

And in 2020, when Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites.

Also in 2020, when they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: "the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression." Further requests were ignored (immediately closed)

And in 2022, when Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.

And in 2023, when Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users' computers without their consent.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

But other than that, there's no reason!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

You're right, no reason at all :)

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 11 months ago (4 children)

fuck brave all my homies hate brave

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 11 months ago (41 children)

Honestly you really should be using Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Whenever people tell me to use Brave, I know they fall for marketing very easily

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks owns ad revenue.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Another issue is that Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave's users, with the rest using the default setting, which is the Standard mode.

How are they getting this data? If it's with telemetry this data doesn't seem reliable, I doubt that people who change the fingerprint setting don't disable telemetry.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used brave for a while, but left as I felt there was something fishy about them. Seems I was right

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Not that brave after all.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I'd rather have the sites break to be honest

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'd ask why they don't make it optional (I'm not a Brave user) but it seems it was.

Another issue is that Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave's users, with the rest using the default setting, which is the Standard mode.

This low percentage actually makes these users more vulnerable to fingerprinting despite them using the more aggressive blocker, because they constitute a discernible subset of users standing out from the rest.

Given that, I'm inclined to agree with the decision to remove it. Pick your battles and live to fight another day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unless there’s a strong correlation between those who set fingerprint protection to strict and those that disable telemetry

In that case they’re about to piss off a much larger portion of their users than they realize

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I don't like brave browser from first use. Something seemed off.

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