I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever.

Brave was already ousted as spyware in the past and the company has made many decisions that are questionable at best. For example, Brave made a cryptocurrency which they then added to a rewards program that is built into the browser to encourage you to enable ads that are controlled by Brave.

Edit: Please be aware that the spyware article on Brave (and the rest of the browsers on the site) is outdated and may not reflect the browser as it is today.

After creating this cryptocurrency and rewards program, they started inserting affiliate codes into URL’s. Prior to this they had faked fundraising for popular social media creators.

Do these decisions seem like ones a company that cares about their users (and by extension their privacy) would make? I’d say the answer is a very clear no.

One last thing, Brave illegally promoted an eToro affiliate program making a fortune from its users who will likely lose their money.

Edit: To the people commenting saying how Brave has a good out-of-the-box experience compared to other browsers, yes, it does. However, this is not a warning for your average person, this is a warning for people who actively care about their privacy and don’t mind configuring their browser to maximize said privacy.

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    Never used it, I saw some twitter comments from it’s CEO and this guy isn’t trustable.

    I go with Firefox and sometimes epiphany. Last one tries to accomplish the level of the well known ones but is mostly years behind. That’s sad, because I really like it.

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        Not at all. He literally invested in keeping same-sex marriage outlawed, so to him it’s clearly important to be able to control people’s private lives.

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          I don’t think it’s contradictory.

          Keeping same-sex marriage outlawed is just like any other form of governmental control. The same as guns restrictions, taxes, mandatory schooling etc.

          You may argue that same-sex marriage is an essential human right etc. But this is your values, many other people don’t share them. Brave CEO may share value of digital privacy and not share value of same-sex marriage.

          I won’t continue this discussion further.