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Those things have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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> I don’t, I’ve never used Brave. In this case your entire comment is pure FUD and a cheap shot at Brave. I’ve been using Brave for 2 years, never saw a single ad.
Brave does have a feature that displays ads in exchange for BAT, so it's not a cheap shot. https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
There’s no conceivable way a Brave user sees ads without very explicitly digging through the settings and enabling them.
Which leads me to wonder, have you yourself ever used Brave?
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How is it evil at all if it's opt-in?
It represents a clear conflict of interest with the way I intend to use the internet. There are no half-measures with advertising, there will be no crypto in or around my browser. If they wanted to make a case for using their browser over Ungoogled Chromium, they shouldn't have started by shilling their own shitcoin. Also, their creator compensation program is quite terrible, which Tom Scott has documented quite thor…
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They aren't forcing it on you. It's opt-in. Google's trying to force things on all their users: manifest V3, this, et cetera.
The brave-hate meme is self perpetuating at this point. Brave is privacy-oriented out of the box. You have to opt in for the ads and crypto. Isn't that what everyone has been asking for? opt-in instead of opt-out? I'm convinced that Google is behind a smear campaign against Brave. If Brave got real traction it could be a serious threat to their business.
If you’ve been around long enough, you know they’re at least paying YouTubers to use and promote the browser without any disclosure. Who knows how far past that they are going.
Here is one way to disable "FLoC" chrome://settings/privacySandbox Evolution from FLoC FLoC ended its experiment in July of 2021. We've received valuable feedback from the community^1 and integrated it into the Topics API design. A highlight of the changes, and why they were made, are listed below: FLoC didn't actually use Federated learning, so why was it named Federated Learning of Cohorts? This is true. The intent…
Here is another way to disable "FLoC": https://firefox.com
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Brave does have a feature that displays ads in exchange for BAT, so it's not a cheap shot. https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
It is a cheap shot because you have to explicitly go out of your way to enable it. There’s no conceivable way a Brave user sees ads without very explicitly digging through the settings and enabling them. Which leads me to wonder, have you yourself ever used Brave?
When you open a new tab, does it not show an ad for you as the wallpaper of the new tab? I thought that space would show an ad regardless of rewards are on or off.
The ads that I get that I know are because of rewards is the desktop notifications that it pushes, that you can click on. Only ever clicked on a couple of them at most I think, but still have them enabled because I think the idea of Brave rewards and BAT is interesting.
Also, I no longer remember but, when you install Brave it does ask whether you want to enable Brave rewards or not, didn’t it? In which case I think at least some people might be clicking yes without meaning to/understanding. But in my case it was intentional anyways.
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> I don’t, I’ve never used Brave. In this case your entire comment is pure FUD and a cheap shot at Brave. I’ve been using Brave for 2 years, never saw a single ad.
Brave does have a feature that displays ads in exchange for BAT, so it's not a cheap shot. https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
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How are you seeing ads in Brave? I don't see anything. I believe you have to turn them on, no?
> How are you seeing ads in Brave I don’t, I’ve never used Brave. From https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ Brave Ads do not replace current web page ads. By default, Brave blocks privacy-invading web ads and trackers that are embedded in page content. Joining Brave Rewards and viewing Brave Ads does not affect your current blocking settings for each website you visit. The ads you see as part of Brave Rewards are shown s…
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https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=europe If you don't want to follow the rules (against anti-competitive practices) of a certain set of countries, perhaps you shouldn't have offices in that set of countries? Just an idea...
Okay, so they spin off a bunch of shell companies holding all these offices and stop displaying them on the Google website in order to address the EU requests. But the mothership still gets to remain a single company.
In the real world, they have to bribe their way to the same effect.
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Those things have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
The topic at hand is whether or not people's hate towards Brave is legitimized. I'm explaining to you how people come to despise the browser and it's developers. You can take it or leave it, but you can't act surprised when people come out in droves to tell you that they don't want to use a browser developed in-house by the same people directly commoditizing the attention market.
A very distant second is the whole chromium bullshit