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Is Brave overrated? (jeremmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know if I am missing a point or not but I don't exactly quiet get the hype as to me, it just chrome with poor man's uBlock Origin and their own crypto in the mix.

Like how it that different from me using ether Librewolf or even Google Chromium and install uBlock Origin compare to Brave?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BAT is Brave Attention Token, a form of crypto exclusive and locked into Brave. Its like a little crypto mining scam.

Brave Browser is funded by DoD: https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/fe34ls/exclusive_brave_browser_funded_by_dod_contractor/

Brave traffic detected with Cryptocompare despite BAT rewards disabled: https://unddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/gr8nue/ (removeddit no longer works, use unddit)

Brave also has a known history of whitelisting Facebook and Twitter trackers, and has a crippled adblocker that does not work on Brave's "acceptable" advertisements.

Brave Browser hardcoded their crypto partner Binance referral links (https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/1269201480105578496) alongwith Ledger and soon-to-be-compromised Coinbase (https://decrypt.co/31461/coinbase-wants-to-identify-bitcoin-users-for-dea-irs)

Also some new stuff you might want to check.

https://sick.codes/sick-2021-109/

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/13527

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've never seen any real benefit of Brave over just the vanilla unGoogled Chromium fork if you really do want Chromium, or Firefox/one of the unMozilla'd forks if you want just any engine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brave is basically just for people too dumb to install uBlock Origin on Firefox, and who desire a worse experience with the fickle greed of BAT garbage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly, their "make money while you browse while making money for your favorite websites all while maintaining privacy" thing is so on the nose for "too good to be true" that I'm genuinely disappointed by how many people who are supposedly pro privacy and FLOSS development fall for it. If someone promises the world, they're almost always either misguidedly deceiving themselves, or maliciously deceiving you.