You can test it in Brave Nightly 1.59.
I'm supposed to trust BRAVE with privacy? Did I receive a massive head injury and not realize it?
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser
The Brave web browser has carved out a niche over the past few years as an alternative to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and other mainstream web browsers. Some of that has come from its marketing as a privacy-preserving web browser, and it has also been repeatedly evangelized by cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.
Also likely its dataset was trained on stolen user data.
Exactly. AI and privacy don't fit in the same sentence.
Wow, that’s worse than I thought. What a shitty company. Glad I made the right judgement when they went all in on cryptocurrency bullshit.
It’s so easy to download the Hardened Firefox profile and tweak uBlock to do a way better job. I don’t know anything about brave but the fact it gets pushed a lot by paid sponsors was always a bit concerning for me.
Your quote is worthless, that summary doesn't give any reason what's problematic about the browser.
It's also unfortunate that the article's author chose to start with politics - I prefer technical reasons to stop using technical tools.
The crypto bullshit and injection of affiliate codes to URLs are indeed problematic. However, to me that just says to stay vigilant when using Brave but it's still not as bad as Chrome.
Personally I use Firefox anyway but unfortunately, webdevs get lazier every year and only test Chromium browsers and sometimes some stupid website doesn't work correctly on Firefox. If it's something like an airline checkout I need a fallback browser and today that's Brave.
Your quote is worthless, that summary doesn't give any reason what's problematic about the browser.
That's why you read the fucking article, sheesh...
Shady browser from a shady company.
In the comments: crypto bros and privacy nerds have the same shit fight they always have in every brave post. I honestly don't think anyone even uses this browser and likely never will.
I use it for YouTube and spotify because the ad block works. Firefox i had some sites that wouldn't work with the extensions I have running
...Aaaand I'm officially tossing the browser. AI has it's place, and that is not embedded in every fucking program I use.
How is Brave covering cost of this thing?
There is a paid subscription tier of the brave search which certainly is used to partitially fund this project. Other than that. Brave also serves ads in their search results for free users. Those however are not based on your profile but are based on your current search (similar how DuckDuckGo and Startpage are handling their ads).