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Brave's aggressive marketing (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Was reading an answer to the question about fresh Amazon tablet and saw this. They used up the question as a hook to promote their browser. Pretty sure I'm avoiding Brave from now on.

Q: Does the fire max 11 have YouTube app on it. A: I have installed Google Playstore , but I skip installing Youtube app . There is better option . Brave Browser in Playstore !! That thing has AWESOME popup Blocker and it's own integrated Youtube Ads and other Nuisances blocker . My point ? You don't need youtube on Fire max , You don't need Google Maps , You don't need Facebook App . Just Use Brave .

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really doubt that is marketing. I just think that’s an over-enthusiastic user.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Idk, sound like a paid comment to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I shill brave on iOS regularly as a way to get past ads on mobile and watch with background playback. But that’s more because of how much I hate ads than any loyalty to brave. I highly doubt they’re paying for the kind of low quality shilling this guy is doing on Amazon. If they are, they can start paying me as well!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

if you're interested in alternatives with adblockers:

  • adguard extension for safari, for general browsing
  • video lite app for youtube, or any other video playing website. It's a browser disguised as video player, but it's really well done, feels like I'm using the oficial youtube app
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perhaps you sound like a FireFox or otherwise Anti-Brave shill

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow wow, slow down dude, now you sound like a Brave shill yourself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

It’s brave shills all the way down

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're insane.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Aren't we all?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You're paranoid, mate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Gentle reminder that Brave's CEO is a known bigot and the browser is just chrome with a few extensions and fresh coat of paint.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I really don't understand why people use and recommend brave. They've have had plenty of shady practices in the past and bundle crypto crap by default. If you want to block ads just install ublock origin on (preferably) any privacy respecting browser like firefox (or better yet librewolf), ungoogled-chromium etc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Brave sucks. Firefox + uBlock Origin is superior.

Yes I'm a Firefox Supremacist.