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Brave Browser has an AI assistant chat now

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Re: Brave Browser has an AI assistant chat now

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Post by dizhn »

brnt wrote: post #19
water-your-self wrote: post #16

If all your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump off too? Brave showed me ads the second day that I used it, and frankly im thankful that they showed who they were so quickly. I had been nearly fooled

Is any adblocker perfect? The default setting in Brave is not the highest setting you can set it to. As to your question: it depends on why they are jumping. If it is because a giant truck is going to run over us, I might join them, yes.

I think parent means Brave served them ads not that it missed some other site's ads.

I am aware of a link hijacking thing but not displaying ads by Brave.

Re: Brave Browser has an AI assistant chat now

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Post by weare138 »

brnt wrote: post #19
water-your-self wrote: post #16

If all your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump off too? Brave showed me ads the second day that I used it, and frankly im thankful that they showed who they were so quickly. I had been nearly fooled

Is any adblocker perfect? The default setting in Brave is not the highest setting you can set it to. As to your question: it depends on why they are jumping. If it is because a giant truck is going to run over us, I might join them, yes.

It's disingenuous to market your product as privacy focused then put the onus on the user to actually make it private. You can do that with any browser. If you're just going to end up shaving the yak anyways why use Brave to begin with?

Re: Brave Browser has an AI assistant chat now

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Post by JuanPosadas »

water-your-self wrote: post #16

If all your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump off too? Brave showed me ads the second day that I used it, and frankly im thankful that they showed who they were so quickly. I had been nearly fooled

Brave on Android sent me ads as notifications with no discernible way to turn them off.

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Post by basch »

weare138 wrote: post #22
brnt wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is any adblocker perfect? The default setting in Brave is not the highest setting you can set it to. As to your question: it depends on why they are jumping. If it is because a giant truck is going to run over us, I might join them, yes.

It's disingenuous to market your product as privacy focused then put the onus on the user to actually make it private. You can do that with any browser. If you're just going to end up shaving the yak anyways why use Brave to begin with?

What’s not private about the ads. Brave uses a pretty ingenious way of serving targeted ads.

All the tracking is local on the device. The browser is sent an ad bundle. The browser chooses what ads to display, locally.

Also viewing ads to support the product is opt in, not opt out.

Is there some ethical gray area around an ad blocker funding itself by displaying different ads. Sure. Is it automatically anti-privacy to serve ads? I’m not so sure it is.

Re: Brave Browser has an AI assistant chat now

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Post by esafak »

MaxikCZ wrote: post #13

Great, so now I can tell it "Block all cookie prompts on all sites, disable all javascript, and if what I click on doesnt react as it should because of turned off javascript, run the javascript code behind the element just that one time." ? No? So what is the chatbot actually capable of, telling me what is the weather gonna be tomorrow? Is it also able to tell me what the weather was yesterday? My point being that AI…

That is one major problem with conversational interfaces: their abilities are opaque.
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