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This led me to install Brave after being irritated at the umpteenth mid-article malvertising redirect. Definitely recommend Brave. They even pay you about 75 ce
by ashleyn 5y ago
This led me to install Brave after being irritated at the umpteenth mid-article malvertising redirect. Definitely recommend Brave. They even pay you about 75 cents an ad for fairly unobtrusive, plaintext, notification area ads.
- pmontra 5y agoI didn't know that. Do you know how much do they gain from that ad? Is it possible not to see any ad anyway?
- ashleyn 5y agoIt's opt-in, you can turn them off entirely if you want.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoThis comes up so often on HN that I feel like no-one is going to be converted in either direction at this point but I suppose just for the sake of completeness: "No, you shouldn't use Brave.": https://web.archive.org/web/20210531085250/https://aspenuwu.me/blog/dont-use-brave/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210531085250/https://aspenuwu....
- pugio 5y agoThat was actually quite helpful, thank you. Guess I'm a HN 10,000er today.
- superasn 5y agoWow seeing this for the very first time. Very eye opening I must say.
- peanutz454 5y agoOkay, I am converted. Now is duckduckgo safe? Or is there an article like this about it too?
- LeoPanthera 5y agoAs far as I know DDG is fine. It's harder for a website to be quite so malicious, anyway.