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This is not a good look for brave.
(lemm.ee)
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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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I don't know much about brave except that its chromium based and apparently removes web ads as its main feature. Why are they running ads? Why do I keep getting this browser recommended? How the fuck do they make money to be able to target me with this info? Something is off and I don't like it. I feel like the pressure to use brave isnt coming to me organically so I'm staying clear of it. I just have a bad feeling and I'll trust my gut on this.
Because they "reward" people with crypto for watching ads so a lot of cryptobro assholes have financial interest in the browser getting more popular.
Also the CEO is homophobic and right-wing so it speaks to a lot of loud assholes.
Its full of crypto bullshit as well, and they add their own ads too some pages that they pay you to watch (in a useless crypto)
Well, they threatened students for creating a fork. So yeah, they are dead to me
They block all ads except their own.
https://brave.com/brave-ads/