I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever.
Brave was already ousted as spyware in the past and the company has made many decisions that are questionable at best. For example, Brave made a cryptocurrency which they then added to a rewards program that is built into the browser to encourage you to enable ads that are controlled by Brave.
Edit: Please be aware that the spyware article on Brave (and the rest of the browsers on the site) is outdated and may not reflect the browser as it is today.
After creating this cryptocurrency and rewards program, they started inserting affiliate codes into URL’s. Prior to this they had faked fundraising for popular social media creators.
Do these decisions seem like ones a company that cares about their users (and by extension their privacy) would make? I’d say the answer is a very clear no.
One last thing, Brave illegally promoted an eToro affiliate program making a fortune from its users who will likely lose their money.
Edit: To the people commenting saying how Brave has a good out-of-the-box experience compared to other browsers, yes, it does. However, this is not a warning for your average person, this is a warning for people who actively care about their privacy and don’t mind configuring their browser to maximize said privacy.
💀 Love seeing people spreading missinformation, guys do always listen to just one source, it’s the best you can do and experts like the Team behind PrivacyGuides.org, Techlore, The New Oil, Mike Kuketz (a security IT expert) and all the other people are dumb and spreading missinformation for sure. It’s always the best to listen just to one random guy who links any random resources, which mostly aren’t trustworthy or provide evidence for their claims. 👍
But anyway it’s ur life :D
Btw. it’s suspicious that his account only ever commented this post and only made this post but exist since 2016, definitly a trustworthy source if you ask me 👍
Mike Kuketz called Brave ambivalent and saif that their outward presentation does not match the Browsers behaviour
BTW, another argument is: Don’t use Chromium-based browsers, browser engine diversity is important for an open web.
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Show me the part where he said it, also he uses Brave himself.
From the linked source (2023), which I assume you can understand as a German speaker:
Can you link to where he says he uses Brave? Maybe I’m wrong here, but this seems sceptical.
More quotes:
(I really don’t want to be toxic, but at least the Mike Kuketz talk is you spreading misinformation)
Ah yes, weird that he uses Brave himself to surf in the Web 🤔
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/einstellungen/ This is more up-to-date ;)
Weeeeeird, I asked him on Mastodon, let’s see what he says.
None of this is misinformation. All the links in this post can be cross-referenced with other links stating the exact same thing.
This is the first post I’ve made, not the only post I’ve commented on. Also, Lemmy didn’t exist until 2023 (or 2022?) so how exactly could my account be created in 2016?
Edit:
Apparently Lemmy has actually existed for a really long time, but still not since 2016.