Your friendly reminder that the Brave CEO is Mozillas old CEO, who was fired from Mozilla for being unapologetically homophobic.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks owns ad revenue.
No it literally breaks sites. I was using Firefox with Arkenfox user.js, basically Torbrowser, and nothing broke unless the site told me "your browser is not supported". Braves strong defaults broke Github and more.
The scam company brave? The one that scams people? With their scam based crypto rewards that don't pay out? THAT brave?
There's no reason to hate Brave unless you have a political bias against their CEO.
Besides in 2016, when Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners
And when the CEO unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list.
And in 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent.
And in 2020, when Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites.
Also in 2020, when they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: "the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression." Further requests were ignored (immediately closed)
And in 2022, when Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.
And in 2023, when Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users' computers without their consent.
We really need a based privacy-first Chromium fork... something that
- allows installing addons from a custom source
- removes everything Google tracking related
- adds good sync compatible with things like floccus
- is hardened with switches like MS Edge
- has a good UI like Firefox
- restricts fingerprinting by randomizing or blocking many identifiers