Fuck you, Brendan Eich
Sure. Let media outlets owned by the rich fight tech companies owned by other rich people. Doubt it changes anything though.
So when google, meta and amazon do it it’s cool, but when a good campany does it it’s bad
Brave is not a “good” company.
They’re better than any other company that makes a browser
Except they don’t make a browser. They just repackage chromium with some very dubious modifications. Not to mention the bullshit with stealing ad click revenue, and didn’t they have a fucking crypto miner bundled in at one point?
They’re absolute crap.
The article lack details on how that scraping is done, and I think those details are crucial to evaluate how serious are the allegations.
If the allegations are true, Brave has found a remarkably efficient business model: block the publisher’s ads, bypass its paywall, scrape its articles, then sell the results to AI companies. All while marketing itself as the browser that protects people from shady internet practices.
The media is always lying to some extent. This is just karma
Edit: Karma for the news outlets that lie. There’s a browser that can get around all their bullshit now and it’s great
Brave’s always been shady.
I don’t get why it is listed in the Arch Linux wiki.
I would guess BAT investors
They also own their own ad company.
Sounds about right, given that its previous business model was MITMing ads in order to extort website owners to buy its crypto.
I don’t love brave… it’s kinda wierd…
And people over in Reddit and tech-illiterate people recommend this garbage?
People in this thread are recommending brave lol
Always have. Did you know blatantly lying to idiots will get those idiots to repeat those lies? It’s true!
What browser do y’all (who hopefully are more informed than me) recommend? I’ve switched from Chrome to Firefox and now to Brave…
I use Librewolf primarily because of vimium-c and ublock, but it’s not my preference. I use it mainly for corporate attention-economy sites.
My all-time favorite and primary is vimb. Since migrating to webkitgtk-6.0, it works quite well. Every instance is bubblewrapped, but if anonymity is your goal, you’d want to make sure it’s carefully configured. You are probably aware, but browserleaks.com is a nice site for privacy testing.
Why the fuck would you choose Brave? What was appealing about that mess when you had Firefox which works absolutely fine to begin with? Anything built on Chromium is not in your best interest.
Go back to Firefox or any of the various derivatives.
If you must have a back up chromium browser at least choose something like Vivaldi.
Waterfox
Firefox is still perfectly fine.
Librewolf on desktop, Ironfox on mobile
Iron Fox isn’t on iOS.
Glad I decided to drop them and go with Duck Duck Go instead six months or so ago. Heard some shitty things about the owners of Brave…
