Fair.

Reddit? Or the project’s page?

TOP OR BIG SITUATION

I noticed a few users starting to do this and it annoys me to no end. You don’t need to put a link in every comment

That’s fair. I feel like that would be a more valid criticism.

Not to mention anything posted on the internet is effectively public domain

Well, no.

• Linux in name
• Disrespectful towards copyleft licenses

Imposter

No uBO? No Adblocker at all?

I guess it is somewhat like paying in cash for your groceries: While anonymous, only you buy at this time of the day your favourite 3 food products, a cup of gluten-free instant ramen and a period product.

I would be concerned about this scenario:

• Company X has your TV data (but doesn’t know your name, etc)
• Company Y, Z, … know your name and have data on you.
• They buy/share/whatever data and intersect it. Now they can probably connect the data they have on you.

Are you actually using <500 searches per month?

Mine are:

• Dec 2023 ~350 so far
• Nov 2023 ~850
• Oct 2023 ~1100
• Sep 2023 ~1400

Same. The cost point ($10) is a bit … weird, but it is actually appropriate.

Would that make it basically anonymous?

Well, no. I think there is so much information in there, that the IP address is your least concern.

Bot

Well, I guess that is exactly the problem: No guarantee that some method will work.

I disagree on the painful part. The lutris install is basically 1-click.

According to your logic, 30% of words would satisfy this property.

1. Accordion
2. Antenna
3. Banana
4. Character
5. Deceived
6. Elephant
7. Greening
8. Harbinger
9. Insignia
10. Knowledge

GPT-4, prompt: “List 10 words that start and end with the same letter but are not palindromes.”

Even without the palindrome condition, it got some of these and a few palindromes.

Weeeeeird, I asked him on Mastodon, let’s see what he says.

From the linked source (2023), which I assume you can understand as a German speaker:

4. Fazit

Insgesamt hinterlässt Brave einen durchwachsenen Eindruck. Die Voreinstellungen des Browsers sind nicht ideal. […]

Unklar bleibt, ob man zur A/B-Testgruppe gehört und welche Daten dabei an die Domain »variations.brave.com« fließen. Ebenfalls fragwürdig ist die Abfrage von Affiliate-Domains über die Domain »laptop-updates.brave.com«.

Passt man die Voreinstellungen an und installiert keine weiteren Add-ons, hat man einen Chromium-Ableger, der offenbar keine Verbindungen zu Google initiiert, aber dennoch unnötige Verbindungen beim Start aufbaut. So ganz passt die Außendarstellung bzw. das Versprechen zum Schutz der Privatsphäre nicht zum tatsächlichen Verhalten in der Praxis.

Can you link to where he says he uses Brave? Maybe I’m wrong here, but this seems sceptical.

More quotes:

In der Empfehlungsecke findet ihr einige Suchmaschinen, die ich für empfehlenswert halte. Brave Search gehört nicht dazu.

Ich erhalte oftmals die Frage, weshalb ich den Brave-Browser nicht empfehle und wieso ich nicht am Brave-Rewards-Programm teilnehme. Zunächst einmal basiert der Browser auf Chrome – das genügt für mich schon, um einen möglichst weiten Bogen darum zu machen. […] Als datenschutzsensibler Nutzer verzichte ich darauf gerne. Auch das »Werbekonzept« finde ich wenig überzeugend.

(I really don’t want to be toxic, but at least the Mike Kuketz talk is you spreading misinformation)

Mike Kuketz called Brave ambivalent and saif that their outward presentation does not match the Browsers behaviour

BTW, another argument is: Don’t use Chromium-based browsers, browser engine diversity is important for an open web.

idk, this seems like a 99 IQ strat

Cringe.