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The BAT system is opt-in

judge2020 6y ago
However, you must keep in mind that BAT is brave’s profit motive. Google only rejected the proposal because of money, you can’t expect brave to stay angelic in behavior forever.
- merlinscholz 6y ago
  Sadly, browser engines have become complicated enough, that an unfunded open source project is unsustainable after some time. In my opinion, Brave offers a new attempt to solve this (and other) problems with the modern web. I understand that not everybody likes this business model, but I think everybody has to decide on its own, which browser they want to use. After all, browser diversity is important.
  - Daho0n 6y ago
    If browser diversity is important to you I can't see how you would want to support Brave? No matter how good it is still Chrome you support. If we ended up without Firefox, how do you think Brave users would protest and try to force a bug in standard compliance of CSS to be fixed for example? The answer is they wouldn't as for them and everyone else using Chrome it would be invisible. Chrome is cancer like Internet Explorer, except it has now metastasized. Supporting Brave is supporting a future monoculture of the web with fancy browser reskins and no matter how good Braves added features are it doesn't change the fundamental problem but becomes a part of it, working for instead of against the good of users.
yen223 6y ago
Brave puts advertising on new blank tabs, by default.
- merlinscholz 6y ago
  Yes they are using sponsored images on their new tab page, but at least these are privacy focused, and you can easily disable them. After all, even open source projects need sponsoring. I'd much rather have some sponsored images than have my data being sold or turned into advertisements.
  - Proven 6y ago
    Brave Today > Disable New Tab Page > Show background images (OFF) These innocently named options are where the ads are coming from.... Didn't see them before (I could swear they weren't there before...).

judge2020 6y ago

However, you must keep in mind that BAT is brave’s profit motive. Google only rejected the proposal because of money, you can’t expect brave to stay angelic in behavior forever.

merlinscholz 6y ago
Sadly, browser engines have become complicated enough, that an unfunded open source project is unsustainable after some time. In my opinion, Brave offers a new attempt to solve this (and other) problems with the modern web. I understand that not everybody likes this business model, but I think everybody has to decide on its own, which browser they want to use. After all, browser diversity is important.
- Daho0n 6y ago
  If browser diversity is important to you I can't see how you would want to support Brave? No matter how good it is still Chrome you support. If we ended up without Firefox, how do you think Brave users would protest and try to force a bug in standard compliance of CSS to be fixed for example? The answer is they wouldn't as for them and everyone else using Chrome it would be invisible. Chrome is cancer like Internet Explorer, except it has now metastasized. Supporting Brave is supporting a future monoculture of the web with fancy browser reskins and no matter how good Braves added features are it doesn't change the fundamental problem but becomes a part of it, working for instead of against the good of users.

yen223 6y ago

Brave puts advertising on new blank tabs, by default.

merlinscholz 6y ago
Yes they are using sponsored images on their new tab page, but at least these are privacy focused, and you can easily disable them. After all, even open source projects need sponsoring. I'd much rather have some sponsored images than have my data being sold or turned into advertisements.
- Proven 6y ago
  Brave Today > Disable New Tab Page > Show background images (OFF) These innocently named options are where the ads are coming from.... Didn't see them before (I could swear they weren't there before...).