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Can someone please explain why not to use Brave browser ?
(privacytests.org)
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What makes it a "crypto scam" and what makes "dabbling" in crypto inherently "sketchy"?
Come on mate, there's no way you'd be aware of crypto in an online space like this without being well aware of why most people consider it a scam.
On the contrary, I'd expect people in these spaces to be more capable of separating the signal from the noise with crypto and not default to "crypto bad".
Crypto is bad though. If you can't see it, you're either one of the scammed or one of the scammers (in which case you can see it but pretend you don't).
You sound delusional
Such a juvenile take.
Honestly I agree, quite sad to see such hostility to a relatively harmless technology, although Brave's implementation is a bit meh. I like the idea as a concept, to have websites and content creators to have a source of income without compromising privacy, but using BAT as the median currency kinda sucks. I'd have much rather Brave have chosen a more mainline currency. Thankfully by default, it isn't even used, only icons/new-tab-page are there to activate/use it.. having it be an opt-out solution would have soured me more. Default is essentially advertising its use, the 'disabling' is just hiding the references, which I do ofc.
That said, I don't care enough about this to take action. I still use it as my secondary for Firefox. I do actually use the brave search though, even on Firefox, as it seems to be better than DDG these days. Also not based/reliant on Bing.
Money is bad—it is used for a lot of bad things like trading drugs or hiring killers…? Money is the root cause of mugging, scams, exploitation, killing, corruption…?
Money is good—it can be used to help people…?
Perhaps money is not good nor bad; a person who uses it may be ethical or unethical. Please do not confuse pure mathematics or technology (such as public key cryptography) with its users/abusers.
Bingo. The myopia in this community is honestly kind of alarming.