I don’t trust Brave one bit. Its whole approach reeks of a bait-and-switch (think “we won’t share or sell your data” pre-9/11 Google). Its founder is a massive homophobe and crypto-bro, and I have a massive learned distrust of homophobes and crypto-bros.
Moreover, I see no reason to use it when we already have far superior options (Firefox).
You mean the crypto-bro browser funded by billionaire Peter Thiel, who runs the corporate intelligence agency Palantir, which contracts with the Department of Defense to spy on Americans?
Uh, no.
According to Brave’s CEO, that’s not really true though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25840586
Can you provide contradictory evidence? I tried to no avail. I would stop using Brave if it turns out that Thiel is having a bigger stake in Brave than I knew so far.
it’s involved in crypto. That’s a permanent red flag for me.
Yep.
Crypto is nothing but a scam that the lowest common denominators are constantly fooled into thinking its their get rich quick method, only to be shocked when they lose all their money.
Anyone involved in crypto is a scam.
anyone pushing crypto is either a scammer or a brainless moron.
Any company or group sneakily putting crypto in their shit deserves to be burned to the ground, metaphorically speaking, and the ashes pissed in .
I agree, but it’s a shame that crypto has garnered this reputation as a get rich quick scheme. It reaally had the potential to upend digital currency and end our reliance on banks.
Currency only has value when people think it has value. And at this point, the current state of bitcoin, the largest crypto, isn’t very great.
Monero is a good contender for digital currency, as it has privacy set on default and it follows the spirit of the bitcoin whitepaper than bitcoin ever did, imo. Its value is stable, and more privacy companies are accepting it as a valid currency for their services (mullvad, for example)
Crypto has garnered that reputation, because thats all it is. Since its inception. Its never been anything but… Anyone who thinks otherwise were just people who fell for the scam.
Its nothing but a MLM for idiot techies who think they are smart, but would totally pick up a USB drive in the parking lot and plug it into a critical system to find out whats on it.
I read through the comments and figured I should try to help balance the discussion. For risk of getting pounced on, I use brave browser and brave search for all my personal needs. It is pre configured with things I care about out of the box, ipfs on mobile, great adblock by default, I experimented with their ad/crypto thing. I’m very happy we have companies trying to do new things, the naysayers will shit on innovation always, so “do your own research” lmao. Other features are a built in crypto wallet.
Other things I care about are their terms of service. Whether you believe it or not, at least we have a company out there trying to champion privacy by default. DuckDuckGo is similar on that regard. They also have their own search engine and their AI powered answers is very good, much better than Google’s at this point. I find myself not having to go to Google as often anymore. It’s really good these days!
They also push the envelope and put their money where their mouth is so to speak privacy wise by continually coming out with new features for privacy and security. I honestly do not understand how a privacy community will shit all over Brave. And no I don’t care about their founder nor about their copyright AI infringing API. Have none of you sailed the high seas? If it personally affects you then sue them.
Never trust a web browser sold to you with crypto incentives.
Firefox is foss, transparent and it has more than enough add-ons to make brave pointless.
but RAM and page loading speed
Oh no!
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