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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[+] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social -25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the stuff that happens on the backend of any software goes on "without your consent".

You clicked on a webpage.

You were brought to that webpage.

You weren't tracked, logged, or had your data exploited or anything. All that happened was Brave got an affiliate bonus.

Now if the companies in question were angry at Brave for doing that, I could understand. But why should we, the users, give a shit?

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

> You weren’t tracked, logged, or had your data exploited or anything. All that happened was Brave got an affiliate bonus.

You seem to not know how affiliate links work. The products shopped are tracked & logged per user, and can be analyzed by the affiliate partner as to what their users were buying, i.e. data can be exploited.