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YSK that some internet browsers respect your privacy. Some internet browsers don't.
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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2026
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Say it with me.
Brave π owns π an π ad π network. π
Also, the homophobia.
It's worse than an ad network; it started out as a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. "Sure would be a shame if we MITM'd your ads and didn't share a cut with you because you wouldn't help us legitimize our funny munny."
If its chromium, i dont want it.
Also, the homophobia.
I didn't know that. I heard Brave owned some crypto scam, but their browser was legit and open source. As long as you stayed away from crypto, you were okay.
Doesn't their browser include uBlock by default? How do they make money with ads?
Here's a good summary of some of the shady practices that they've done by way of @cannedtuna@lemmy.world. It's a summary of this article: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
Brendan Eich's anti-LGBTQ+ political involvement
2016 β Brave Browser promises to replace webpage ads
2018 β Brave runs a questionable donation campaign
2020 β Brave injects referral links when visiting crypto wallets
2020 β Brave puts ads in user's home screens
2021 - Brave ships an insecure Tor feature
2023 - Brave hides their crawlers to websites
2024 - So-called "privacy browser" deprecated advanced fingerprinting protection
And More!
They also got caught dynamically inserting their own referral codes into peoples' URLs
Basically, the business model of Brave is that they want to block ads on websites so that the browser itself serves the ads instead.
They aren't blocking ads for the user's sake, they're blocking ads to kill their competition.
Brave isn't popular enough to actually disrupt the online ad industry like that yet, so they've found other ways to make money (like crypto). But the built-in ad network was their original idea. It's not exactly a pro-user organization.
As far as i know, they have their own ad blocker and allow the user to allow some ads and share a part of the revenue with them