• jimmy90@lemmy.world
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        not enabled by default, but if you want to use them, yes

        i haven’t seen a single ad or been annoyed by any crypto shite so far

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          I installed Brave earlier this week and that’s mostly true. There’s some built in stuff that will show by default, notably the toolbar buttons and the notification style alert on the new tab page for one of those things mentioned, but you can just close the notification and remove the toolbar buttons and you’re set.

          That said, I think it’s still in the data monetization market like Alphabet with anonymized tokens, though I don’t remember the details.

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            this is disabled by default, i think that is the BAT system that also uses crypto somehow

            i also made a handful of tweaks to tidy up the UI, easily done in the settings

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        ps. Brave has also built-in P2P and TOR features among other features

        actually an interesting browser

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          Be careful with the Tor features, they allow you to open some onion sites but don’t supply the extra anonymity/security of the actual Tor browser.

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      No. Brave has a history of modifying links you click on to add affiliate information. The only time to use Brave is if user agent spoofing for “chrome only” websites doesn’t make it work.

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        ps. i also first started using Brave when certain streaming sites refused to work in Firefox :)

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          Right, but I don’t trust them as a result and I don’t feel comfortable recommending them or not pointing it out. Meddling with links you click is malware behavior.

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          Also the recent case when they installed VPN. In general, they give off the impression that they don’t respect users’ consent a lot. Mozilla has been similarly sneaky, like with the opt-out ad tracking recently - thus I would only consider Librewolf or hardening - but Brave seems to be more extreme in their advertising business.

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            the VPN was a feature of the software at the time and not enabled unless you signed up but as you point out if software changes its service without explicitly telling users these days it feels bad

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              Welll yeah - point was that they installed a service without consent. And not just a browser feature, but something crossing a whole another boundary. AFAIK also, while the tunnel itself was not enabled, the service itself was turned on automatically.

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      To add: the CEO got kicked out of Mozilla and switched to crypto after he was caught donating to outlaw gay marriage.

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        that was before 2008 as far as i can tell, has eich and/or the organisation continued to act homophobicly?

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          He got caught sending money to a bigoted organization, got in trouble, and then embraced dark money.

          Until he makes it right to the LGBTQ+ community and makes his finances public, only a fool or another bigot would give him the benefit of the doubt.