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awkward-teabag · 3 months ago

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Definitely not them. While the AI and crypto bullshit is mentioned, they don't mention the CEO of Brave was CEO of Mozilla (Firefox's parent company) for less than two weeks and in that time multiple people stepped down or resigned out of protest because of his financial contributions opposing same-sex marriage.

Among other issues with Brave:

They were caught injecting affiliate codes into URLS to get money.

Scraped and sold people's data and copyrighted material to train AI and went out of their way to hide this.

Installed a program on people's computers without their consent.

Injected sponsored ads into people's browsers to make money.

They've also run ad campaigns multiple times shitting on Firefox and Firefox users.

I would not touch them whatsoever given the history, how shady they are, and how much of a chud the CEO is. Crypto and AI are the least of the issues with them, imo.

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#sadly non-chromium browsers are few and far between because that's what a monopoly does #your options are basically firefox/a fork of firefox or something else using the gecko engine like the mullvad browser #if you're a mac user iirc safari is a decent alternative that isn't chromium though #but definitely avoid brave #i also wouldn't use an office program that only has/defaults to cloud saves since cloud save = your stuff on someone else's computer #which is a privacy thing but having it locally also means you aren't screwed if your internet goes down #you can get programs that automatically save locally and have the option for a cloud save to the service of your choosing if you want that #instead of it being on servers you didn't choose with no way to change to something else #also if the only option is a subscription you're paying for ongoing access to your own stuff #buying a dedicated program for a one-time fee may be more money up front but you don't get locked out from access #and odds are it will be cheaper than a subscription in a year or less anyway

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