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This is not a good look for brave. (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I don't know much about brave except that its chromium based and apparently removes web ads as its main feature. Why are they running ads? Why do I keep getting this browser recommended? How the fuck do they make money to be able to target me with this info? Something is off and I don't like it. I feel like the pressure to use brave isnt coming to me organically so I'm staying clear of it. I just have a bad feeling and I'll trust my gut on this.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

Because they "reward" people with crypto for watching ads so a lot of cryptobro assholes have financial interest in the browser getting more popular.

Also the CEO is homophobic and right-wing so it speaks to a lot of loud assholes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Its full of crypto bullshit as well, and they add their own ads too some pages that they pay you to watch (in a useless crypto)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Well, they threatened students for creating a fork. So yeah, they are dead to me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

They block all ads except their own.

https://brave.com/brave-ads/