"Our malware is limited by the browser sandbox, please install the native version of our malware."
YES APPS THAT TRACK YOU ARE OBJECTIVELY MALWARE
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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And it wouldn't be free.
*unless it's an open source community-driven project
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see much pressure to install open source apps. I would estimate that for every thousand call-to-actions involving software that comes my way, zero are open source.
If the product is free, you are the product
Well that's not funny at all...
Brave blocks the nag-screens about opening and installing apps on your phone
Yeah, but then you have to use Brave
Why is that bad? It's a good browser
Mostly it's their attitude to controversy.
Brave has had several major issues over the past few years and they didn't reverse course until press got bad enough for them to make a statement and try for damage control. This includes:
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Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue
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Inserting their own referral codes into auto complete when users navigate to Binance
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Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent
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Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying
On top of all that, it's based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.
On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.
you can turn off the google stuff
Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying
there's other ways of using TOR, and I don't even think they do that anymore, they fixed the problem after the criticism came out
Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent
Been using Brave for over 6 years now, that never happened on any of my machines
Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue
they don't do that anymore, and honestly, I'd rather have it that way than allow google or facebook or any other website to have more money, but adblocking needs to be multi-layered anyway.
you can turn off the google stuff
until google allows that