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Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC (www.neowin.net)
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[+] -34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've used this for years and have never interacted with any crypto feature

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  • [–] 147 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That you know of

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They kind of just ignore that the crypto feature is opt-in.

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  • [–] 102 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The fact that the dev behind brave is a homophobe isn't opt in though...

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Also, their whole business model was (is?) just replacing ads with ads they get paid for.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Uh... no? It just puts sponsored backgrounds when you open new tabs or windows notifications if you opt-in

    It never replaced ads in websites afaik

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://ads.brave.com/

    They're not actively replacing elements on a web page, but they're still getting paid to show you ads and you can opt in for some crypto nonsense.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Sure, so? It's still opt-in, and by default it sends the generated crypto money to creators and websites you visit

    If you don't like it, don't enable it? They're pretty transparent about how it works overall

    They have pretty much abandoned this feature anyways

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    It's opt-in for now, how many times do we have to play this game?

    I'll keep using Firefox with uBo to actually block ads instead of a browser that's running its own ad delivery system.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you only use software that is created by people you like... well... i guess your only choice will be an abacus...

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  • [+] -42 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's saying that he left Mozilla for that. He's still CEO of Brave

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't believe this poor reading comprehension is getting upvoted.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What's amazing is they proved themselves wrong in their own post, thinking they proved themselves right. It's actually impressive.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You don't see it everyday that's for sure.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    That's pretty par for the course for Internet arguments in my experience. Then they get all huffy after you explain why their source doesn't say what they claimed and try to complain that because you didn't supply a source, they're still right.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did you even read the text you shared? It just says he left mozilla.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not interacted doesnt mean it's non-existant.
    It exists and therefore it's bad enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    it’s bad enough.

    This is debatable. i find some that people hate on AI and crypto regardless of it's implementation

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Existent**

    It's fine as a browser and it does a good job at syncing across devices. Still my chrome based browser of choice.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How mich actual difference (minus the crypto) is there to base-chromium?
    Afaik chromium is capable pf being a browser. Does that also have syncing or is it not capable of that?

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