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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
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tsk tsk tsk. When will people learn to just use Firefox or Librewolf? Do you want a web browser, or an AI training crypto wallet?
I read ya.
I was always skeptical about Brave with their side projects of crypto etc. Its funny because privacytools.io recommends them till this day.
I have been using Librewolf for some time now and I am happy with it.
privacytools.io is no longer the recommended one since the mod/domain owner split a long while ago, it now heavily endorses ads (such as nordvpn) you instead should use
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
Brave still is a great browser just disable a few settings as recommended in the guide
Brave is still Chromium in a new coat of paint and you're still aiding Google in their domination of web standards.
That is a little unfair tbh, they do quite a lot, such as their privacy shields, including the script blocking one which is basically like NoScript.
They also do some work on anti fingerprinting tech and other things along that vein.
If the whole selling point of a browser is security/privacy you shouldn't have to check any boxes to make it work as advertised. It's not a great browser or worthy of trust.
They also offer other things like a search engine which is not opensource, which is understandable for a business perspective.
But I don't know. I just don't have a good feeling about Brave.
Also, I prefer Firefox based browsers on desktop, we need competition in the browser space.
On mobile, the chromium based browsers are just to superior in performance to switch from.
Privacy Guides recommends them also.
Except we're transparent as to why and Burung Hantu (Marco Wollank) (current owner of PTIO) is not.