I wonder how the Washington Post feels about it?
If the allegations are true, Brave has found a remarkably efficient business model: block the publisher’s ads, bypass its paywall, scrape its articles, then sell the results to AI companies. All while marketing itself as the browser that protects people from shady internet practices.
Brave’s always been shady.
I don’t get why it is listed in the Arch Linux wiki.
Sounds about right, given that its previous business model was MITMing ads in order to extort website owners to buy its crypto.
They also own their own ad company.
The media is always lying to some extent. This is just karma
Edit: Karma for the news outlets that lie. There’s a browser that can get around all their bullshit now and it’s great
What browser do y’all (who hopefully are more informed than me) recommend? I’ve switched from Chrome to Firefox and now to Brave…
Firefox is still perfectly fine.
Librewolf on desktop, Ironfox on mobile
LIbrewolf is my personal choice along with mulvad browser but I don’t use chromium browsers
Sure. Let media outlets owned by the rich fight tech companies owned by other rich people. Doubt it changes anything though.
So when google, meta and amazon do it it’s cool, but when a good campany does it it’s bad
Brave is not a “good” company.
They’re better than any other company that makes a browser
They have excellent PR and marketing. People think they’re better than they actually are.
They’re an ad company
Except they don’t make a browser. They just repackage chromium with some very dubious modifications. Not to mention the bullshit with stealing ad click revenue, and didn’t they have a fucking crypto miner bundled in at one point?
They’re absolute crap.
Wait are saying that a fork isn’t a real app but just a repackage of another? Is something like Ubuntu not an os but simply a repackaged debian? Even if you dislike brave as a company the browser itself changes more then enough things to be consider different from stock chromium
I literally did not say any of that.
“Dubious” modifications? You mean the stuff they add to block ads and spoof fingerprinting that works better with just one setting change than any other browser I’ve ever used or tested on such things?
Edit: or maybe it’s the completely anonymous sync they have that doesn’t even ask for an email address, or maybe it’s their continued support for manifest v2 for anyone who wants to double up on adblocking with ublock origin. Or the way they continue to bypass youtube’s adblock detection
