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No BAT wasn't the controversey. Unless you count the "Tipping any website but if the website didn't accept BAT it went back into the pool". The controversy cam
by dankwizard 2y ago
No BAT wasn't the controversey. Unless you count the "Tipping any website but if the website didn't accept BAT it went back into the pool".
The controversy came when it was found out they were inserting their own affiliate code into links. That's scummy.
- WD-42 2y agoOK that does ring a bell. The whole project always seemed a little on the scammy side and I wasn't sure what the browser actually brought to the table that Firefox didn't, so why even check it out?
- TylerE 2y ago[flagged]
- homebrewer 2y agoMuch better performance on less powerful hardware (I don't care about synthetic benchmarks, do your own testing and you will notice the difference). Vertical tabs. Built-in tor support, built-in efficient adblocker that supports ublock origin rules, but is complied into native code. More anti-tracking and anti-fingerprinting measures (in total, and only counting those enabled out of the box). Configurable shortcuts for absolutely everything. Probably something else I'm forgetting. Plus a bunch of crypto bullshit, but it's disabled unless you make an effort to enable it.
- TylerE 2y agoThere's far more that. Privacy violations - https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nxce6t/brave_browser_scam_a_fake_privacy_browser_sharing/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nxce6t/brav... Bundling crapware https://community.brave.com/t/brave-has-become-malware/510414 https://community.brave.com/t/brave-has-become-malware/51041...
- maineagetter 2y agoA little research proves that this crusade by this guy against Brave is poorly researched https://np.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/nw7et2/deleted_by_user/h1ffs7l/ https://np.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/nw7et2/delete...
- TylerE 2y agoOk totally authentic account with no posting history.