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  • ch1cken@kbin.socialtoTechnology@kbin.social•Stop using Brave Browser
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    1 year ago

    Damn, 3 days 0 days without anti-brave browser propaganda, so lets break down this article:

    brandon eich

    Do you use linux? Go look up all the nasty stuff stallman’s said and firmly believes in. I don’t see people boycotting gnu which is a vital part of linux as a result of this, I myself still use it, because you should never mix politics with software. If the software works as it should, why do the author’s politics make a difference? A lot of praised artwork was made by artists who went mad. Similarly, I’ve heard the creator of lemmy has some questionable views, I don’t see people spreading anti-lemmy propaganda.

    The same also applies with microsoft, if you use windows. Or apple, with macos. They’re no saint either.

    The Ad Experiments

    is Opt in… Come on at least try out something before you write a whole article on it.

    Some ranting about the opt in crypto

    Mentioned above.

    adding affiliate codes to some URLs typed into the address bar

    Again shows that they never actually tried the browser, they’re just jumping on the hate bandwagon. It never “rewrote” url’s, or “hijacked” anything, it suggested them, which the user could optionally click on, this is a very significant difference to “hijacked”, or “rewrote” as that’d be malicious, whereas with this approach the user chooses. This was later removed.

    use vivaldi

    Vivaldi is not comparable brave in terms of all the hardening they’ve done. Firefox is a great alternative, and that’s what I myself use, but I always recommend brave to less tech-savvy people, especially if they’re coming from something like chrome.