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Their motives here are not questionable. Everyone knows exactly what their motives are. Google makes Chrome, a competitor to Brave. Also, Brave’s whole schti
by downandout 7y ago
Their motives here are not questionable. Everyone knows exactly what their motives are. Google makes Chrome, a competitor to Brave. Also, Brave’s whole schtick is that it is better on privacy than other browsers. So their motive to make this complaint was simple and self-serving: they are trying to take their competitor down and use the publicity from it to boost their business. This isn’t the first abuse of GDPR by a jealous competitor, and it won’t be the last.
Intentionally or not, GDPR was designed in a way that will drive complaints and cross complaints by competitors large and small, across the world. As companies realize how easy it is to weaponize GDPR to impose significant defense costs on competitors at no cost to themselves, regardless of the legitimacy of their complaint, filing such complaints will become a competitive necessity.
- _eht 7y agoYou should learn more about Brave. Those were two large paragraphs full of ignorance.
- downandout 7y agoAre they not competing with Chrome? Also, you literally raised the exact same concern I did in another comment: ”Brave, I wish I liked you more. As much as I am cautious with trusting Google, your motives and history are somehow more questionable to me.” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19990086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19990086 You seem to agree with me, at least when you aren’t replying to a comment of mine. Where is the disconnect here?