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Third party untrusted binaries last I checked
You can build it yourself, but even with a midrange desktop it'll take you at least an hour to build. A laptop would probably take 2-3 at least.
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> Many seem to argue that "They'll pay to have ads removed", but that doesn't seem to hold true when services offers that exact option. I would pay for ad free Youtube, if it was an option. Even with Youtube Premium, included promotions continue to be shown
Well yeah, they don't stop someone advertising a product in the main content. If they did, then James Bond movies would be a lot shorter.
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KYC, AML, CYA, IANAL
KYC stands for "Know Your Customer" and it's a reference to laws that require businesses to have a clue who they're doing business with. It's not a legitimate response to the concern here. The concern is failure to provide adequate information about the consequences of your actions up front. They're going to benefit from the ads, and they won't necessarily have to pay for that benefit, because they didn't adequately…
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Lots of people are pointing out that this isn't the case anymore , but the fact is that it used to work this way, and they only changed it after backlash. That was enough to turn me off of Brave forever.
Yeah, I too dislike it when companies respond positively in response to criticism. I prefer the orgs I interact with to be perfect and never make mistakes and when they do (but they don't because I only interact with perfect institutions) I prefer them to double-down instead of improve.
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Lots of people are pointing out that this isn't the case anymore , but the fact is that it used to work this way, and they only changed it after backlash. That was enough to turn me off of Brave forever.
Yeah, I too dislike it when companies respond positively in response to criticism. I prefer the orgs I interact with to be perfect and never make mistakes and when they do (but they don't because I only interact with perfect institutions) I prefer them to double-down instead of improve.
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You can build it yourself, but even with a midrange desktop it'll take you at least an hour to build. A laptop would probably take 2-3 at least.
Are you going to read the source to confirm nothing malicious was added?
In 2001 or so I considered entering into an encrypted email correspondence with my brother, for fun. I quickly gave up on the idea because I realized that I didn’t trust that my computer or my brother’s computer didn’t already have spyware of some kind, I didn’t trust the integrity of any encryption/decryption tools that existed, didn’t trust myself not to lose the passwords or leave them lying around, and didn’t tru…
Do you lock the doors on your house? Why bother? Someone could break a window? Security is about identifying and mitigating threat models. For example, if you're concerned with mass surveillance an encrypted messenger will stop that. Just because something doesn't protect against CIA 0days doesn't make it worthless.
Besides, unless you've built your own encrypted messenger, you're still putting trust in several agents that you have no reason to trust.
I am absolutely inclined to believe that Brave is not as private as it appears.
What also comes to mind is that Brave's founder Brandon Eich is a homophobe who donated to ban gay marriage in California (Prop 8, https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/brendan-eich-why-mozill...). That alone is sufficient to doubt the integrity of his organization.
I would love to use something other than brave but Firefox is shit and arguably getting worse over time. They have been sacrificing ux for revenue streams for a while now. Also extension management is a joke, especially if you have more than 5 extensions. I have like 30 chrome extensions... Most of which get used at least weekly. Many of them do things like prevent sites from blocking text select or copy paste, thing…
As someone who's used Chrome exclusively for the good part of a decade and has been using Firefox again for the last several months, I don't get this criticism at all. It seems…fine? In any case it's radically better than it was when I initially switched to Chrome from Firefox.