I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever.

Brave was already ousted as spyware in the past and the company has made many decisions that are questionable at best. For example, Brave made a cryptocurrency which they then added to a rewards program that is built into the browser to encourage you to enable ads that are controlled by Brave.

Edit: Please be aware that the spyware article on Brave (and the rest of the browsers on the site) is outdated and may not reflect the browser as it is today.

After creating this cryptocurrency and rewards program, they started inserting affiliate codes into URL’s. Prior to this they had faked fundraising for popular social media creators.

Do these decisions seem like ones a company that cares about their users (and by extension their privacy) would make? I’d say the answer is a very clear no.

One last thing, Brave illegally promoted an eToro affiliate program making a fortune from its users who will likely lose their money.

Edit: To the people commenting saying how Brave has a good out-of-the-box experience compared to other browsers, yes, it does. However, this is not a warning for your average person, this is a warning for people who actively care about their privacy and don’t mind configuring their browser to maximize said privacy.

  • ᴅᴜᴋᴇᴛʜᴏʀɪᴏɴ
    38·
    3 years ago

    I hate when companies try to make money off the product they are providing for free, so they can continue to be a company.

    If you want Privacy, use TOR. Otherwise, pick whichever flavor of browser works best for you. The Internet in general is going to design their infrastructure/apps/websites to work with the companies that own the internet, and there’s nothing that a few hundred people on social networks are going to do to change that.

    Unless some of you get together and design a private device with a custom OS, private browser, etc, that somehow runs on a new browser engine…no forks, no additional scripts to make it work…

    • eya@lemmy.dbzer0.comdeleted by creatorOPEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      Using Tor as a daily driver kind of goes against the point of Tor. And they aren’t just “making money off the product” they are committing actual crimes.