Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news”
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day agoI would be very surprised if Brave did not at least at some point sponsor content to position itself as privacy oriented.
Yeah, this is standard SEO that all companies have been doing since people figured out how to game Google’s PageRank algorithm.
The only thing new is the AI who’s search strategy is ‘summarize the top n results’
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
privacytests.org is run by a chief Brave engineer.
Good luck figuring that out based on their website.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh don’t read this as me defending Brave, I don’t think that’s a good browser to use.
I just mean that using deceptive means to promote a product (including botted comments and other shady tactics) is standard practice by now for any company trying to sell a product.
I can’t speak to any of Brave’s qualities because I don’t use it and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. The fact that they’re using marketing tactics like this kind of goes against the good guy persona that they’re trying to present and that’s enough to turn me off of their products.