• kadu
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    61 year ago

    Honestly it shocks me that people are surprised by this.

    Any free product that also claims to be more privacy friendly is lying. In fact, if you want to farm the data of the group of people who are harder to track because they care about privacy… Launching a Chromium browser with a fancy skin and spending 80% of your money astroturfing online so “users” can “recommend” your “privacy friendly” browser everywhere is quite literally the best strategy.

    • @Celivalg@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      11 year ago

      Linux is free, is thought to be more secure than alternatives when properly configured, and isn’t a scam?

      I’m not saying Brave is good, just that it’s not because something is free that it’s bad

    • Aesthesiaphilia
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      -91 year ago

      Brave is very open about how it pays for itself via ads. Y’all conspiracy theory turds are starting to annoy me.

      • @kbotc@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

        They literally had to be called out for link jacking and tried to deny it for awhile. They’re anything be open. They are giant pieces of shit.

        • Aesthesiaphilia
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          -101 year ago

          So? Then Brave gets some extra money for something I was going to click on anyway. I don’t see the issue.

      • kadu
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        81 year ago

        Can you really call it a conspiracy when they have a new privacy, user trust or otherwise shady issue every month?

        • Aesthesiaphilia
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          -41 year ago

          They really don’t, not that I’ve seen anyway. Just stuff like this article that’s 10% them doing something perfectly reasonable and 90% people going “they just feel shady!”

          If you can show me actually shady stuff they’ve done, I’m happy to change my mind.

          Usually when I ask this, it’s something like “they do ads!” to which the obvious reply is “yeah they tell you that upfront”.

          • kadu
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            91 year ago

            They quite literally inserted affiliate codes in the URL of products while you browsed.

            • Aesthesiaphilia
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              -121 year ago

              So? Then Brave gets some extra money for something I was going to click on anyway. I don’t see the issue.