He founded the company long before taking on the role of CEO and acted as CTO, kind of imortant in terms of how the thing was designed/built, BTW so to spell it out for you:
Despite his opinions on marriage the ethos that informs your browser of preference is synonymous with that which informs Brave’s…
Does it compute?
what is the search engine that you use in your pc? do you use chrome? or edge? are you sure you are not logged in in any way on the pc?
are you using an android phone? your playstore is connected to which gmail account? have you ever logged in your browser (on the VPN) to see your email from there?
Your browser can be saving some kind of information that the trackers were somehow able to identify “you” with the “you”.
I mean multiple sites checked brave, you can disable the crypto stuff and the daily beacon call, and then have a super private open source Browser which scores top on all fingerprint tests and stuff.
OP concerns privacy. Calling a browser crap while comparing to another with, less privacy built in, that was built by the same guy who built the “crap browser” clearly shows you don’t know as much about these browsers as you lead on.
It’s fine not to know. Informing people about important things like privacy with your misinformed opinions isn’t helpful though.
If you found out the TOR browser was lead by a dude who kinda had opinions about “x-thing”, and “x” isn’t technically relevant in regards to the desired solution, “x” is irrelevant.
isn’t literally just about replacing ads with other ads and pushing partnerships with KYC exchanges.
Never saw ads with brave , neither their integrated ones nor outside ads actually you need to opt in for their ads to show and you get some of their weird currency for it also these ads get preloaded and never any data gets send to the advertisers except that it was seen.
Also can’t just disable the crypto stuff because it re-enables itself on updates.
Never did for me.
So you agree that you bringing up the person who made the browser is entirely irrelevant.
No I don’t agree, which was clearly indicated:
… lead by a dude who kinda had opinions about “x-thing”, and “x” isn’t technically relevant in regards to the desired solution, “x” is irrelevant
The “x” which is technically relevant in regards to Eich is his technical chops and vision for the internet which Firefox, The Only True Privacy Browser, owes its existence to.
The “x” which is irrelevant is his opinions on marriage as it has no bearing on his commitment or his technical chops regarding privacy protecting browsers.
Brave Rewards is optional. I find the idea interesting as an attempt to enable a more user-centric ad market based on mutual consent as oppose to the prevailing surveillance capitalism model of today. Before the term Web3 was completely bastardized Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the web, began working on an interesting protocol that is trying to address some of the same that Brave Rewards are.
I do think there is plenty of interesting conversation to be had on this subject and whether or not BAT tokens and Brave Rewards do enough, or anything at all. Regardless of the answer to that, I will lay out real quick why it is irrelevant to the argument “Brave IS NOT a privacy browser”:
| Brave is NOT a privacy browser. Also, they built Tor into it which is lame.
I hope I have made myself clear…with this damned book… mostly to anyone else who stumbles on this. But there you have it. Feel free to respond and I’ll read it but my fingers ache contemplating another response.