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Brave appears to be selling copyrighted data for AI training and giving third parties the “rights” to that data, while not disclosing its own robot crawler (www.techmeme.com)

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[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Every few months there's something new coming up about that browser. Here's a non-exhaustive list of shady stuff:

Manipulating search results to show ads
Releasing Pay-to-surf with extensive tracking
Blocking ads from companies only when they haven't paid them not to
Gathering data about other installed browsers
Crypto scam (yes, it was a scam, they stopped doing payouts)
Profiling user habits and selling that data to advertisers
Buying reviews

Of course, there's more.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know. Firefox still doesn't do any of those things, either.

[–] NatoBoram@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox has built-in ads (that you can disable) on the home page.

Not as hot garbage as Brave cryptoscamming and replacing ads with their own and hijacking affiliate links, but it might be of interest if you want to try Firefox.

[–] AndrewZabar@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I haven’t used Brave for many years because I knew about all their shady shit years ago. Everyone knew if they bothered to just read about it.

[–] mrecom@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah Brave is hot garbage