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They’re shady? I’m shocked.

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Shocking! Or not!

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Oh no! Anyways…

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Brave doing shady stuff? Who could have imagined?? /s

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@hhj The more you find out about them, the worse they get.

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Every few months there’s something new coming up about that browser. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of shady stuff:

  • Manipulating search results to show ads
  • Releasing Pay-to-surf with extensive tracking
  • Blocking ads from companies only when they haven’t paid them not to
  • Gathering data about other installed browsers
  • Crypto scam (yes, it was a scam, they stopped doing payouts)
  • Profiling user habits and selling that data to advertisers
  • Buying reviews

Of course, there’s more.

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I haven’t used Brave for many years because I knew about all their shady shit years ago. Everyone knew if they bothered to just read about it.

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As far as I know. Firefox still doesn’t do any of those things, either.

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Firefox has built-in ads (that you can disable) on the home page.

Not as hot garbage as Brave cryptoscamming and replacing ads with their own and hijacking affiliate links, but it might be of interest if you want to try Firefox.

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Yeah Brave is hot garbage

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