• kinttach@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Brave is a nice browser but I’m not going to trust crypto bros with my privacy.

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    I re-downloaded Brave the other day, and I was disappointed to recall how bloated it feels. The attention tokens, crypto wallet, in-house search engine, trialware VPN, etc.—it’s for someone, but not me…

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        Brave is trying to create an ecosystem where you use the browser to access their many “free” services. Once they run out of venture capital money and they’ve got people hooked, it’s a slippery slope. Just my two cents though. I never loved Brave’s corporate personality to begin with.

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    1 year ago

    It’s built on top of chromium, so they might be privacy preserving but google isn’t.

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    I don’t like the “attention token” nonsense—I turn that off—but I love Brave and its search engine. It is cool to have a search engine return results that are actually different than other SE’s and have those results be very good.

    In fact, I find its results to often be better than the big search engines because results aren’t overtuned for SEO

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    I’m very confused on how they were one of the first more well known companies to fully launch their own search engine. I would have expected Mozilla, Apple, or Facebook to do so first. Hopefully Proton launched one soon (or buys and open sources Kagi)