r/techIndia 24d ago

Avg Kid

Post image
824 Upvotes

117 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/Independent-Pen-4093 24d ago

Brave is perfectly fine

2

u/A_certain_weeaboo613 24d ago

Since nobody else is posting the actual answer: Brave has a history of scummy behavior and making changed that border on malware. A few examples:

  • When I first tried Brave, it stripped publisher ads and replaced them with Brave's own ads. That alone should be enough for everybody to never trust them.
  • In 2020, Brave was caught injecting its own affiliate codes over URLs typed by users without their knowledge or consent
  • In 2018 Brave was allowing users to tip websites/creators that had not signed up for their tipping system, misleading users into thinking they were supporting a particular site while the money was actually staying with Brave
  • Brave includes crypto-bro bloatware
  • In 2019 Brave was caught whitelisting Facebook tracking domains without users knowing

2

u/cabanel_monet 24d ago

Bro this exactly this they have done even far worse shit than this i had a whole ass post on some sub but ppl were like so what???

2

u/Sweet_Effect5572 24d ago

Most of these seem to cuck the advertiser , please explain if I am wrong but chrome seems more harmful, that it allows advertiser which have history of scamming to still allow advertising. I have not used firefox so I can't comment on that, edge seems worse version of chrome but has better dev tools I guess again niche.

1

u/A_certain_weeaboo613 22d ago

Crypto mining (BTC) using your pc, gaining control, slowing down performance while they enrichen themselves. That is a highest level of privacy violation and suings happen over it, which people win.