installing other Brave software without permission on your PC when you install their browser
an obscenely high marketing budget that misled people about data collection on Brave
a CEO that was fired from Mozilla for being openly homophobic and donating money to a campaign that wanted to undo the legalisation of same-sex marriage
Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?
Revealed by who? Where? Brave definitely has some unsavoury connections to cryptocurrency but calling the entire project “just a big crypto scam” sounds like a massive exaggeration of the problem.
I have years using it a never been crypto scammed for it, about the V3 I truly don’t know apparently you will still be able to turn some V2 extensions like unblock origin but I didn’t see the point of it if the browser include a good adblocker anyway.
Same. The adblocker in Brave is great, its been ages since I ditched uBo and I’ve still to see a single ad. Built-in adblockers are good, because Google has no power there. Firefox, instead, its still a thing exclusively because of uBO i.e., the work KF an external, unpaid developer. The say uBO disappears, is the day FF dies. Mozilla is so busy wasting time and money on unrelated stuff and huge CEO paychechs that they have had nkr the time to add and inbuilt advlocker to FF, which instead has useless crap such as Pockets and an opt-out ad-measurement tool which nobody asked for.
Potatisen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?
Also, it’s chromium so… You’re getting V3 eventually.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
pushing crypto on users
injecting crypto affiliate links
installing other Brave software without permission on your PC when you install their browser
an obscenely high marketing budget that misled people about data collection on Brave
a CEO that was fired from Mozilla for being openly homophobic and donating money to a campaign that wanted to undo the legalisation of same-sex marriage
Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Revealed by who? Where? Brave definitely has some unsavoury connections to cryptocurrency but calling the entire project “just a big crypto scam” sounds like a massive exaggeration of the problem.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Brave was found to be injecting their affiliate links for crypto.
blog.drhack.net/brave-browser-injecting-crypto-re…
theverge.com/…/brave-browser-affiliate-links-cryp…
cpomagazine.com/…/brave-privacy-browser-caught-au…
Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Yes, that’s what I was referring to. A very far cry from “just a big crypto scam”.
TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have years using it a never been crypto scammed for it, about the V3 I truly don’t know apparently you will still be able to turn some V2 extensions like unblock origin but I didn’t see the point of it if the browser include a good adblocker anyway.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Same. The adblocker in Brave is great, its been ages since I ditched uBo and I’ve still to see a single ad. Built-in adblockers are good, because Google has no power there. Firefox, instead, its still a thing exclusively because of uBO i.e., the work KF an external, unpaid developer. The say uBO disappears, is the day FF dies. Mozilla is so busy wasting time and money on unrelated stuff and huge CEO paychechs that they have had nkr the time to add and inbuilt advlocker to FF, which instead has useless crap such as Pockets and an opt-out ad-measurement tool which nobody asked for.