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?
Why do you distrust brave?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology
Brave was caught redirecting users to referral links, which Brave made money from.https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=BRENDAN+EICH&cycle=&state=&zip=&employ=&occupation=&jurisdiction=&cand=PROTECTMARRIAGE.COM&type=
CEO donated money to anti-LGBT groups.https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/07/18/is-brave-selling-your-site-content-to-train-ais/
Brave used copyrighted materials to train AI.https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20962085/brave-beta-1-0-privacy-browser-chrome-firefox-safari-ad-block-tracker
Paying users in crypto to view ads.Uninstalled Brave and went to Firefox after that “AI training” article came out…:didn’t know about the anti-LGBT donations. Fuck Brave with a baseball bat. That would have been by reason too if I didn’t see the AI one
Glad to be away from the Chromium conglomerate too
FF had a pretty shaky time some years back with their themes and whatnot but man did they turn things around.
Their browser is fast, clean, simple and elegant. It’s honestly the best browser I’ve tried in recent years.
Super impressed and overjoyed they are still fighting the good fight!
What a terrible use for a baseball bat. I feel sorry for said bat.
Every AI company uses copyrighted material to train their AI and there is nothing wrong with that, as long as they obtain it legally.
If you think something being legal automatically makes it not-wrong, I don’t trust you on… well, much of anything, but especially privacy
Obtaining it legally is one thing. Using it according to the license is at least just as important. Specifically if they trained it on content under GNU GPL or Creative Commons SA licenses, I’d like the result published under these licenses too.
Last time I checked they were still injecting code in random pages (for example on old reddit where each post in the list of a sub had additional stuff that was a PITA to disable).
Profit Corpo
Bad Rep in the past. ( MULTIPLE TIMES - the Crypto “Incident”, Ads replaced by Braves Ads even with disabled option, but should be “fixed” now, and because it uses v3 it still requests the ad elements. The Affiliate incident https://lemmy.world/comment/2183264 )
Privacy policy is more “hidden” then normal. ( Personal Opinion! )
CEO is an but hole now and made dirty things before brave.
Brave is Chromium based = Controlled by Google and with it they support Google.See this post for more shady stuff:
https://lemmy.world/post/1531596
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Also likely its dataset was trained on stolen user data.
Exactly. AI and privacy don’t fit in the same sentence.
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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.
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.
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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.
sorry you got downvoted by mob mentality. Thanks for sharing
I mean, they’re scummy but you’re right. There’s no reason to downvote news. OP isn’t advertising.
OP advertised it in my opinion. Because he didnt talked about it. Just posted a pic and small text.
If I were to post a link to a Google Chrome “What’s New” post and say nothing else, would I also be advertising?
The hivemind/stupidity and the amount of Mozilla apologists among supposed techies amazes me everytime. I’m glad I left Mozilla community and FF a few years ago and I find extremely satisfying watching them slowly dying. I’ll celebrate the day Mozilla and its shitty community ceases to exist.
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).
Blog post from Brave: https://brave.com/leo-release/
