“Fake news”. A term coined to describe deceptive media. In particular fox news. Now used by liars worldwide to dismiss the truth.
“Fake news” is the bat signal for “we’re actually doing this”
What a surprise… the web browser made by a racist bigoted guy who is a huge fan of mass surveillance and Trump is not private color me surprised /s
careful you don’t smack youself in the face with that knee jerk
Brave does not collect user data at all by default, and any opt-in system, such as Brave Rewards or premium VPN, blinds us to user id, no record linkability either
is that THE cambridge analytica? i assume .org is something using the name in irony
I never understood why so many “privacy focused” lists mark them as the top browser choice. Their company track record seems spotty at best.
Because those lists are usually just ads themselves.
Because it has ad blockers built in, has Tor built in, blocks trackers by default, and is very upfront and open about how they use your data if you choose to let them. A big part of what this article misses is that the feature is opt-in. It is turned off by default. Some people are weird and want personalized ads, in which case this feature is a hell of a lot more secure than other browsers who have to opt-out of tracking and don’t give a shit about your PII.
Oh wait, I forgot where I was. Umm, I mean… Brave bad! Bad browser!
It is wild to me that Brave still maintains such a highly regarded position amongst privacy “enthusiasts” and websites. The godawful news about the browser, its company, and the CEO has been constant since the day it was first announced and it’s clear as water that the browser is not private nor even remotely ethical. Far as I am concerned, it should have faded from the public conscious back when they were injecting their crypto referrals to skim money without you knowing. Or all the times the CEO opened his mouth and revealed that he is a supreme piece of shit.
And even if it was private, just the fact that it’s yet another Chromium browser is a total non-starter for me. I am so sick and tired of the ocean of alternative browsers that directly or indirectly support Google’s browser monopoly, often while proclaiming they are a great Chrome alternative.
A significant chunk of privacy enthusiasts are libertarians like Brave’s CEO. I think there’s some level of “same team” trust going on there.
Brave owns an ad company. They are absolutely tracking users.
The company that injected crypto referral codes into your links, if someone needs more convincing.
Don’t trust anyone who unironically uses the term ‘fake news’.
Everyone quit using chromium browsers
Uninstalling Brave.
If someone doesn’t like Mozilla, use a Firefox fork rather than a chromium one. Brave and other chromium forks to get away from Google surveillance and dominance of web standards makes no sense to me
Stop using brave. CEO is a trump fucker maggot and this 100% confirms it now
This is why I switched to LibreWolf
alternative with free sync and password manager?
I would be interested as well. Been using Brave for a long time now, but I want to switch, just don’t know what to.
Librewolf is the equivalent to brave just based on Firefox. (On android: Ironfox)
Cambridge Analytica accusing Brave? Who is the bad guy in this story? I am confused.
Considering Mozilla basically did the same thing in Firefox, but turned it on by default instead of off (which is worse), it’s strange that they praise Firefox in the same article.
There are plenty of good reasons to hate Brave, but I think this whole article can be trashed, and the website itself put behind a blocklist
Wouldn’t a truly anonymizing web browser be flagged down by all Cloudflare protected websites?
I’ll take brave over Cambridge Analytica any day.
Also ublock blocks 31% of that “news” site as trackers, lol.
Or you could choose actual privacy and ditch both
