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Why not Brave and Alternative to Brave. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Harry_h0udini@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I've been seeing a lot of people hate and uninstall Brave. Why? It's not like they're tracking us or doing anything else shady. If so, what's the privacy alternative?

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[–] ram@lemmy.ca 96 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Brave fucks with crypto. Never fuck with crypto. It's also Chromium, which means they're complicit in Google's efforts to DRM the internet.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pro digial cash / Monero ... but it doesn't belong in a web browser. Super sketchy shit they are doing with BAT, which means they are tracking you.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I legitimately would be fine with automatically paying authors. It's not like I enjoy pay walls, ads, or AI garbage writing.

But yeah that's a job for existing crypto and a Firefox extension. Nothing about this needed a separate money supply or browser.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but if you automatically pay authors a dollar or two for every view, rather than your data, then how will data brokers resell your data hundreds of times for hundreds of dollars?

[–] El_Rocha@lm.put.tf 17 points 1 year ago

The complicit part is the most bullshit thing I have ever heard.

They said unequivocally that they won't support it, just like they didn't support Manifest V3.

[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crypto isn't mandatory in brave, I use it for it's built-in ad block and they say they won't implement Google's DRM, also blockchain based since is nice

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm aware, but it's still supported, and that's enough for me to vomit over a garbage product.

They say they won't implement Google's DRM but words alone do not matter. If they continue to use Chromium, they'll be forced to adopt that and manifest v3.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

They would have to put more work into their fork, but they aren’t forced.

[–] nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Agree with the chromium dominance but ats up with crypto?

Its bloat in the browser but I spend maybe 5 mins turning those off and they never bother me again. Haven't seen one of their features magically turned on like what MS does.

Have they done anuthing sketchy to question their privacy commitments? Most I've seen was their Tor implementation was improper.