• mholiv@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    This is an ad for Brave. The creator of this site is Arthur Edelstein who is employed by Brave. 🙄

    I am so sick of “privacy guides” that subtly try to push a crypto bro ad company browser.

    Brave is a crypto bro run ad company whos CEO is openly anti LGBT+.

    The OG poster is a 12 day old account with a lot of submissions to try to hide that. I could easily write a bot to do the same to give “credibility”.

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    Brave is a crypto scam disguised as a reskinned version of Google Chrome

    Serious people use literally anything else. At least Google is honest about its spyware

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    Why does Firefox have an ❌ next to “Insecure website setting”? It very much does warn you. There’s even an “HTTPS-only” setting that allows you to completely block insecure websites from loading.

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    Say it with me.

    Brave 👏 owns 👏 an 👏 ad 👏 network. 👏

    Also, the homophobia.

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      It’s worse than an ad network; it started out as a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. “Sure would be a shame if we MITM’d your ads and didn’t share a cut with you because you wouldn’t help us legitimize our funny munny.”

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      Brave 👏 owns 👏 an 👏 ad 👏 network. 👏

      I didn’t know that. I heard Brave owned some crypto scam, but their browser was legit and open source. As long as you stayed away from crypto, you were okay.

      Doesn’t their browser include uBlock by default? How do they make money with ads?

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        As far as i know, they have their own ad blocker and allow the user to allow some ads and share a part of the revenue with them

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        Basically, the business model of Brave is that they want to block ads on websites so that the browser itself serves the ads instead.

        They aren’t blocking ads for the user’s sake, they’re blocking ads to kill their competition.

        Brave isn’t popular enough to actually disrupt the online ad industry like that yet, so they’ve found other ways to make money (like crypto). But the built-in ad network was their original idea. It’s not exactly a pro-user organization.

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      Mullvad’s browser seems to be even better. They’re the only VPN I trust, so if their browser is Gecko-based, I might just have to switch from Firefox.

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      It is. I posted elsewhere but will do so here for visibility.

      This is an ad for Brave. The creator of this site is Arthur Edelstein who is employed by Brave. 🙄

      I am so sick of “privacy guides” that subtly try to push a crypto bro ad company browser.

      Brave is a crypto bro run ad company who’s CEO is openly anti LGBT+.

      The OG poster is a 12 day old account with a lot of submissions to try to hide that. I could easily write a bot to do the same to give “credibility”.

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        On the other hand, they clearly show they aren’t the best one, and they include categories that they miss almost all of. Seems like fair play.

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    I like how librewolf has more green checks than brave but brave is shown first like it’s the best. really shows the biases of the authors

    Edit: lmao hoisted by my own petard, it’s just in alphabetical order and I just hate brave. Tbf fuck Brendan Eich.

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    I just use plain Firefox, and don’t use my real name for anything. What I lack in privacy, I try to make up for in anonymity.

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    not crazy about chromium, but i’m curious where a browser like helium/cromite/bromite or vanadium on gOS stack up (i get that’s not mainstream android)

    ironfox, too. i just like comparison tables and as little privacy invasion as possible

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Vanadium is very secure but has a weak content blocker and no fingerprinting protections.

      Helium has uBlock Origin but may have canvas fingerprinting protections (inherited from ungoogled Chromium). It also inherits the security issues present in upstream ungoogled Chromium.

      Cromite has an alright built-in content blocker (ABP engine) and supports adding uBlock Origin, and has decent fingerprinting protections. Cromite doesn’t have good default settings for its ABP blocklists or important anti-fingerprint settings.