Comment on How you can be deanonymized through Tor
db2@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Brendan went on in 2015 to become the founder and CEO of Brave Browser, which is promoted as a privacy browser by hiding and confusing your JavaScript fingerprints.
Altering links to add affiliate tags, selling data… privacy my ass.
Adding to this - Brave’s business plan is to replace google as an ad service, but for an already targeted audience.
Brave’s CEO has also made personal choices on Brave Search, I forget what the issue was.
Selling data though I don’t know, I want a source.
He was only mentioned because of JavaScript and evading it. Really helps when someone tries to draw all the focus on one tiny part of an article.
I think this is either very not well understood or I am missing an old brace news.
They did not alter any link.
They however were proposing an auto complete, when the user was typing a crypto currency website name, with their affiliate link. brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/.
They did not modify any link the user imput without autocomplete or through a search engine. (also it’s fixed).
Maybe I’m mistaken you are talking of something else.
Skimmer@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
selling data>
When has Brave ever sold data? I’ve seen other people claim this here on Lemmy too and I don’t understand where it’s coming from, I know Brave has had controversies but they’ve never sold user data, I’d love to see at least a shred of evidence for this claim, it’s just FUD.
ReversedCookie@feddit.de 10 months ago
They didn’t. Some people just like spreeding missinformation about things the don’t like.
db2@lemmy.one 10 months ago
stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for…
Derp.
ReversedCookie@feddit.de 10 months ago
Your comment was missleading, since you did not mention what data you mean, also this is a privacy sub, copyrighted data isn’t related to privacy anyway, is only some reason why you couldn’t like a company, also this is a contentious topic, because on the one hand they just show you information you find yourself also for free online, they just present it you in a easier way, on the other hand they generate money by doing this with content from others.
nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Just don’t use brave search engine, stick with ddg