I’ve been using Brave for the past three or so years but I do know that Linux/privacy enthusiasts tend to swear by Firefox. Wanted to get people’s thoughts on this topic to see if I should be making a potential switch. Thanks!

  • XTL@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Brave has tried one scam after another before. I wouldn’t trust it for a second for any use.

      • 133arc585@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Depends on what you call a scam. I am not sure it’s the right word, but duplicitous behavior and definite privacy violations (even if by negligence) are absolutely true.

        They have sent out direct mailers that basically equated to a customer list leak; also I’d take a peek at the wikipedia entry about their business model, which mentions some stuff that isn’t the most savory:

        … Brave earns revenue from ads by taking a 15% cut of publisher ads and a 30% cut of user ads. User ads are notification-style pop-ups, while publisher ads are viewed on or in association with publisher content.

        On 6 June 2020, a Twitter user pointed out that Brave inserts affiliate referral codes when users navigate to Binance

        In regards to the mailers, they messed up and passed blame,

        In this process, our EDDM vendor made a significant mistake by not excluding names, but instead including names before addresses, resulting in the distribution of personalized mailers.

        With regards to the CEO, he made a donation to an anti-LGBT cause when he was CEO of Mozilla in 2008. He lost his job at Mozilla due to his anti-LGBT stance.

        He also spreads COVID misinformation.

        • Voxel@feddit.deEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Tbh. Mozilla wasn’t better in the past and as long it doesn’t affect the product I don’t mind the political views of the owner (it’s still concerning). As long Brave can provide me better privacy and security for my daily browsing I will continue using and recommending it. And listening to Wikipedia he stepped back, by himself.

      • spiritedaway@lemmy.mlEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        Not OP, and these aren’t scams as such, but there was some controversy with Brave inserting affiliate links within web pages and also hijacking links to redirect to other URLs that would earn them money.

        The CEO also has some controversial views on the Corona virus and LGBTQ rights.

        • Voxel@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The CEO was before CEO of Mozilla lmao, but stepped back, because the entire Internet hated Firefox, because of his political opinion.

        • Engywuck@lemmy.mlEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          The CEO also has some controversial views on the Corona virus and LGBTQ rights.

          Completely unrelated to “security” or “privacy”.

          • spiritedaway@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I disagree, especially from a privacy perspective. Just as an example, if the CEO of the company goes on a full power trip (Elon, for example with banning users/censoring content that doesn’t align with his views), whose to say they won’t include nefarious changes to their product or service that could jeopardise users they don’t agree with, or start handing over data of their users?,

            I’ll need to find the article again, but if I’m not mistaken in my recollection, I recall reading about an app collecting and handling over data to anti-abortion organisation.