Not just crypto, they were diverting ad revenue from websites to themselves, collecting unsolicited donations for content creators without their consent, suggesting affiliate links in the address bar and installing a paid VPN service without the user’s consent. Don’t forget they had a “bug” in Tor which sent all DNS queries to your ISP instead of routing it through tor and also weak fingerprint protection. Not to mention the political affiliation of the CEO. But it IS open source.
coolmojo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Brave is open source and using MPL license which is the same license Firefox is using. I am not using or recommending Brave to anyone.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I will flat out shut down any Brave user simply because it tried to push crypto.
No thanks :)
coolmojo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not just crypto, they were diverting ad revenue from websites to themselves, collecting unsolicited donations for content creators without their consent, suggesting affiliate links in the address bar and installing a paid VPN service without the user’s consent. Don’t forget they had a “bug” in Tor which sent all DNS queries to your ISP instead of routing it through tor and also weak fingerprint protection. Not to mention the political affiliation of the CEO. But it IS open source.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Srill fuck them (openly). From the source of my heart :)
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
No one is forcing brave on you lol