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.
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 (presumably) thousands of dollars off their users.
Why are there daily posts against Brave but not against other browsers? Is Google more trustworthy than Brave?
Because people in this community already know not to use Google Chrome and Microsoft.
Also, where are these daily posts? Personally I haven’t seen any saying “don’t use Brave” which is why I made this post in the first place.
I have been browsing /new since about a week and this is the third anti-brave submission that I see there.
I see all too many recommendations to use Brave in comments so a post like this is of value.
I mean it’s a free forum, you can make one if you want to.
I don’t object the creation. I just want to know why there is that discrepancy.
Because Brave likes to portray itself as privacy friendly. We already know Chrome, Edge and others aren’t.
“The devil you know” and all that.