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I don't trust Brave. Brave makes statements like this: >a secure and privacy-centric browser that allows you to explore the Internet without being tracked Bu
by annoyingnoob 4y ago
I don't trust Brave. Brave makes statements like this:
>a secure and privacy-centric browser that allows you to explore the Internet without being tracked
But you can find info on Brave's in-browser analytics:
https://brave.com/privacy-preserving-product-analytics-p3a/ https://brave.com/privacy-preserving-product-analytics-p3a/
And you can find out how the Brave browser itself tracks the ads it shows you, while providing aggregated info to Brave's advertising engine:
https://brave.com/intro-to-brave-ads/ https://brave.com/intro-to-brave-ads/
Brave appears to have simply replaced other tracking with itself, even if they claim to use aggregation to provide anonymity. To be clear, the Brave browser tracks you in multiple ways, claiming to do this in a privacy preserving way.
If you are not into crypto, and buying into Web3, then I have no idea why you'd use Brave.
- somenameforme 4y agoBrave not only shows 0 ads to you, but also blocks all ads, unless you actively opt-in to a system they have where you're paid 70% of the revenue gain from the ad in the form of a token. I do not, and will not ever opt in. The browser itself is also fully open source and you're free to verify that they're sending exactly and only what they say they're sending. You can also disable what limited analytics that they do use if you'd prefer them not see hyper-sensitive information like a bucketed grouping (1, 2-5, 6-10, 11-50, 51+) of how many tabs you have open.
- annoyingnoob 4y ago> fully open source and you're free to verify How did that work out for Log4j? Is trust but verify really trust at all?