▲ 92 ▼ Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news) submitted 3 years ago by billothekid2@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social 55 comments fedilink hide all child comments Just gonna leave this here.
[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 41 points 3 years ago (1 child) Its a bad chromium fork with a crypto snowball scheme attached and some very scummy practices done. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] ch1cken@kbin.social 7 points 3 years ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 years ago Hear that guys?! The pyramid scheme is opt-in! Not scummy whatsoever permalink fedilink source parent [–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 years ago The referral links weren't. That should have been a thought that crossed a developers' mind and immediately left it. It definitely shouldn't have made it into a test build, and it super shouldn't have made it into a public release. That it ever made it that far is enough reason to never use the browser again. The developers have proven that they cannot be trusted with your privacy. permalink fedilink source parent [–] justastranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 years ago Sure, you have to sign up for it but you can't remove the hardcoded crypto wallet extension and therefore can't actually opt-out of having it shoved in your face (at least, it was the time i tried their browser and found it to be inferior in every way to just using Firefox and uBlock Origin). permalink fedilink source parent
[+] ch1cken@kbin.social 7 points 3 years ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 years ago Hear that guys?! The pyramid scheme is opt-in! Not scummy whatsoever permalink fedilink source parent [–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 years ago The referral links weren't. That should have been a thought that crossed a developers' mind and immediately left it. It definitely shouldn't have made it into a test build, and it super shouldn't have made it into a public release. That it ever made it that far is enough reason to never use the browser again. The developers have proven that they cannot be trusted with your privacy. permalink fedilink source parent [–] justastranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 years ago Sure, you have to sign up for it but you can't remove the hardcoded crypto wallet extension and therefore can't actually opt-out of having it shoved in your face (at least, it was the time i tried their browser and found it to be inferior in every way to just using Firefox and uBlock Origin). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 years ago Hear that guys?! The pyramid scheme is opt-in! Not scummy whatsoever permalink fedilink source parent
[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 years ago The referral links weren't. That should have been a thought that crossed a developers' mind and immediately left it. It definitely shouldn't have made it into a test build, and it super shouldn't have made it into a public release. That it ever made it that far is enough reason to never use the browser again. The developers have proven that they cannot be trusted with your privacy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] justastranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 years ago Sure, you have to sign up for it but you can't remove the hardcoded crypto wallet extension and therefore can't actually opt-out of having it shoved in your face (at least, it was the time i tried their browser and found it to be inferior in every way to just using Firefox and uBlock Origin). permalink fedilink source parent