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No, OP is comparing VPNs to Brave. With a VPN, you don't actually gain privacy, you only replace your ISP with some foreign-country entity that operates under f
by Miner49er 6y ago
No, OP is comparing VPNs to Brave. With a VPN, you don't actually gain privacy, you only replace your ISP with some foreign-country entity that operates under foreign laws.
Brave is like that, but a browser. You replace Google/Firefox with a smaller, maybe slightly less watched, browser that still does the same stuff.
- fossuser 6y agoIn some ways brave is worse. At least with FF there isn't an incentive to sell your attention. Brave is explicitly positioning themselves as a reseller of attention which they then obscure by pretending to focus on privacy. I'm not sure why anyone uses them - they're an ad company and their incentives are not aligned with their users. I find them really untrustworthy and their pro-privacy branding has really confused their users.
- jmnicolas 6y agoTheir ad program is opt-in.