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    11 months ago

    Brave is the best chromium browser, so no, brave is no spy ware.

    There are some sites that don’t work with firefox…

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      11 months ago

      Remember when Brave injected referral links?

      Remember when Brave lied about giving money to creators, so badly that Tom Scott had to call em out?

      Remember just a couple weeks ago when Brave got caught installing a VPN service on users’ systems?

      Remember when several years ago Brave added “the Wikipedia of the alt right” as a search engine, because the founder unilaterally decided on it?

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        11 months ago

        All shitty behavior and absolutely reasons not to use Brave or support them as a company, but none of those mean it’s spyware.

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          11 months ago

          I was mostly taking issue with anyone calling Brave the best Chrome-based browser, which is wild when 99% of the work on it is done by one ad company and the final 1% by a second ad company.

          Is it spyware? I don’t know. You could argue it is less likely to be spyware than Chrome.

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      11 months ago

      I think its something related to the CEO of brave. His unnecessary tweaks and changes make brave less private for users.