Brave has had several major issues over the past few years and they didn’t reverse course until press got bad enough for them to make a statement and try for damage control. This includes:
Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue
Inserting their own referral codes into auto complete when users navigate to Binance
Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent
Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying
On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.
On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.
you can turn off the google stuff
Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying
there’s other ways of using TOR, and I don’t even think they do that anymore, they fixed the problem after the criticism came out
Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent
Been using Brave for over 6 years now, that never happened on any of my machines
Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue
they don’t do that anymore, and honestly, I’d rather have it that way than allow google or facebook or any other website to have more money, but adblocking needs to be multi-layered anyway.
Mostly it’s their attitude to controversy.
Brave has had several major issues over the past few years and they didn’t reverse course until press got bad enough for them to make a statement and try for damage control. This includes:
Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue
Inserting their own referral codes into auto complete when users navigate to Binance
Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent
Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying
On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.
you can turn off the google stuff
there’s other ways of using TOR, and I don’t even think they do that anymore, they fixed the problem after the criticism came out
Been using Brave for over 6 years now, that never happened on any of my machines
they don’t do that anymore, and honestly, I’d rather have it that way than allow google or facebook or any other website to have more money, but adblocking needs to be multi-layered anyway.
until google allows that