The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
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?
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
“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
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
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs