• arc@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Brave is a marching band of red flags. It claims privacy while injecting ads, affiliate codes and crypto into the browser. It’s kind of sad to see someone like Brendan Eich who should know better turn to the dark side and pretend this is all fine. It isn’t.

    Best advice I could give for anyone who wants privacy is use Firefox or a branch of it. Firefox is out of the box the most privacy conscious mainstream browser and add-ons make it more so. If you want absolute privacy you could even use a derivative like Tor Browser.

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      1 year ago

      Louis Rossmann also recommended Brave in one of his videos. Quite sad.

        • FuzzyGrumblebee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Love everything he criticizes (corporate greed, drm, wasteful planned obsolescence, unrepairable disposable device design) are all incentivized and rewarded under Capitalism … but since he’s a small business owner he still supports the idea of Capitalism.

          He gets so close.

          • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            Exactly my thoughts. He’s like right on the edge but to me it seems he has some cognitive dissonance re capitalism

    • prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      These people talking as if not all the crypto bloat would be opt in lol. It just take 30 seconds or even less to turn off everything of that.