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Putting aside legitimate qualms about Brave’s ad blocking business model, “skeezy” refers to Brave themselves showing me by default multiple home screen ads for
by StevePerkins 5y ago
Putting aside legitimate qualms about Brave’s ad blocking business model, “skeezy” refers to Brave themselves showing me by default multiple home screen ads for various crypto wallet and NFT brokers. Opinions vary wildly on HN, but for me that entire scene is kissing cousins with MLM.
- hunterb123 5y agoYeah affiliates is how they make money. You can hide all that stuff, but it's a good way to support them if you buy crypto often. Beats being the product using Google, or having a product fall behind like Mozilla because you had to fire all of your engineers.
- celsoazevedo 5y ago> Putting aside legitimate qualms about Brave’s ad blocking business model The other alternatives to Chrome (Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Firefox[0]) also come with a built in ad blocker. Is it only a problem because on top of the blocking - which others also do - they also have the ads/crypto business? --- [0] On Firefox it's more of a "tracking blocker", but things like Adsense are blocked by it.