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Do you trust Brave company and their products: Browser, Search, VPN, etc..?
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Fuck no.
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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Yes except for the VPN as I know nothing about it but that doesn't mean I'll go and blindly recommend any product they release, as with every other company I will read about the product as much as necessary to make an educated decision
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No, of course.
And I don't understand this stupid Brave promotions from DT, CTT and other bloggers.
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No. Still stumps me why some people put it up there with Firefox, there is no contest. Brave is sketch as hell.
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Absolutely NO
Nothing chrome based deserves my trust. Don’t need to even start about the shady crypto shit in regard to brave.
No
If its a Chrome reskin (which it is, ofc) it's a no go. And that's only the tip of the iceberg with this garbage tech bro tier software.
I did once, but after the crypto thing, then the trying to sell rights to other people's content, then finding out how awful Eich is, it's a 'no'.
No. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Not a lot, at least not anymore. Brave has annoying cyrpto-ads that I always have to turn off every time I reinstall their browser, their sync service sucks, and ever since they dropped Bing, Brave search became useless.
Not their browser or VPN. But I do like and use their search as default on Firefox. Other popular search engines leech off big tech's index (DDG: Bing, Startpage: Google), at least Brave maintains their own index. Their AI summarizer is pretty good.
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the thing about brave is whenever a company markets itself as privacy forward with no obvious business model/monetization strategy, it's safe to assume that, if they're not already, they will begin selling user data/ads heavily in the future. especially with brave searches lack of care towards web publisher's right not to be indexed, and Brendan eich generally being a gremlin of a human, I won't go near it. I'm not even starting with their crypto nonsense.
edit: and to the people saying they don't care what the CEO thinks just realize, by supporting the product, you support the company and in turn, the CEO. to support him means, at the very least, complicity with his views.
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No