• vhstape@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I re-downloaded Brave the other day, and I was disappointed to recall how bloated it feels. The attention tokens, crypto wallet, in-house search engine, trialware VPN, etc.—it’s for someone, but not me…

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        1 year ago

        Brave is trying to create an ecosystem where you use the browser to access their many “free” services. Once they run out of venture capital money and they’ve got people hooked, it’s a slippery slope. Just my two cents though. I never loved Brave’s corporate personality to begin with.

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      1 year ago

      And they just re-skin Chrome, so you are helping Google own the internet anyway. Use Firefox or Safari.