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Misleading title. They don't want you to use a VPN if you plan on watching ads to earn money, which is widely accepted as the norm, and absolutely necessary to

Misleading title. They don't want you to use a VPN if you plan on watching ads to earn money, which is widely accepted as the norm, and absolutely necessary to fight ad fraud. It's way too easy to fire up 1000's of cloud instances with brave browsers watching ads automatically all day. If you don't care about earning a few bucks a months then use a vpn.

rglullis 5y ago
Don't understand why you are being downvoted. Your answer describes the issue perfectly.
- baal80spam 5y ago
  For some reason (I suspect why, but I won't go in there), Brave doesn't have good opinion here. I am a happy Brave user for the last 5 years. FF is my backup browser but I tend to find the need to use it less and less.
  - tmikaeld 5y ago
    I'm actually back to Firefox from Brave, the development tools are better and with their new memory management and suspend feature, it's way more efficient. I just couldn't stand sorting bookmarks in brave, it closes the dialogs when you drag-drop which is infuriating even on 1 sublevel.
    - foxfluff 5y ago
      > new memory management and suspend feature What have I missed?
dang 5y ago
The submitted title was "Tell HN: Brave doesn't want you to use a VPN". Then the submitter changed it to "[Ignore this]". Submitters: please don't do either of those things! Both are against the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22level%20playing%20field%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

rglullis 5y ago

Don't understand why you are being downvoted. Your answer describes the issue perfectly.

baal80spam 5y ago
For some reason (I suspect why, but I won't go in there), Brave doesn't have good opinion here. I am a happy Brave user for the last 5 years. FF is my backup browser but I tend to find the need to use it less and less.
- tmikaeld 5y ago
  I'm actually back to Firefox from Brave, the development tools are better and with their new memory management and suspend feature, it's way more efficient. I just couldn't stand sorting bookmarks in brave, it closes the dialogs when you drag-drop which is infuriating even on 1 sublevel.
  - foxfluff 5y ago
    > new memory management and suspend feature What have I missed?

dang 5y ago

The submitted title was "Tell HN: Brave doesn't want you to use a VPN". Then the submitter changed it to "[Ignore this]". Submitters: please don't do either of those things! Both are against the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22level%20playing%20field%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...