I’ve been seeing a lot of people hate and uninstall Brave. Why? It’s not like they’re tracking us or doing anything else shady. If so, what’s the privacy alternative?

  • ram@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Brave fucks with crypto. Never fuck with crypto. It’s also Chromium, which means they’re complicit in Google’s efforts to DRM the internet.

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      1 year ago

      I’m pro digial cash / Monero … but it doesn’t belong in a web browser. Super sketchy shit they are doing with BAT, which means they are tracking you.

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        1 year ago

        I legitimately would be fine with automatically paying authors. It’s not like I enjoy pay walls, ads, or AI garbage writing.

        But yeah that’s a job for existing crypto and a Firefox extension. Nothing about this needed a separate money supply or browser.

    • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Crypto isn’t mandatory in brave, I use it for it’s built-in ad block and they say they won’t implement Google’s DRM, also blockchain based since is nice

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        1 year ago

        I’m aware, but it’s still supported, and that’s enough for me to vomit over a garbage product.

        They say they won’t implement Google’s DRM but words alone do not matter. If they continue to use Chromium, they’ll be forced to adopt that and manifest v3.