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Is Brave 100% open source? I don't trust them at all because I feel that the underlying business model is shady (replacing website ads with their own ads).
by suby 7y ago
Is Brave 100% open source? I don't trust them at all because I feel that the underlying business model is shady (replacing website ads with their own ads).
- joeyspn 7y ago> Is Brave 100% open source? They have the project on github so I guess the answer is yes... https://github.com/brave/brave-browser https://github.com/brave/brave-browser The business model is also quite smart, since the users get paid BAT tokens for viewing ads.
- tapoxi 7y agoTheir business model is quite unethical, removing the page's monetization and replacing it with their own.
- mc32 7y agoArguably but arguably so is the business model of Chrome from a user perspective. So from that POV it’s not worse than Chrome but does benefit the user, whereas Chrome benefits Google, ad industry and sellers.
- wickedlogic 7y agoIs it though? As long the person running the browser understands the tradeoffs? I mean, the browser is supposed to be your user-agent after all. To render and provide interactions as you deem fit...
- ajross 7y agoOne of the great ironies of the modern tech world is that people who hate Google on tribal^H^H^H privacy grounds generally don't care at all about open source purity.