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asdfasfasfasfasI mean they did also inject affiliate links without the users noticing which is really shady behaviour from a browser because it has one job, open the link I click and nothing else. But that's just IMHO if that is acceptable for you personally then there is no issue with that.
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asdfasfasfasfasYou forgot the VPN service they install without consent.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925192/brave-browser-vpn-windows-11
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asdfasfasfasfasStill waiting?
The "crypto BS" also encompasses running a protection racket whereby Brave man-in-the-middles website ads to replace them with its own, then shakes down the website owners to buy into said crypto BS if they want their lost revenue back.
That counts as shady in my book: an end-user has every right to control what their computer (their property) does, but the third-party interference for the third-party's benefit crosses the line.
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asdfasfasfasfasI do turn off all the rewards and other BS in the browser, but I will look into Firefox and uBlock. Thank you.
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asdfasfasfasfasAny reason for picking it over all the other chromium browsers?
It blocks in line ads and trackers, that's why I have been using it.
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asdfasfasfasfasUngoogled chromium with some privacy extensions would probably be a similar experience.
Waterfox...
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asdfasfasfasfasOh yeah. My bad.
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asdfasfasfasfasGood. Every chromium-based browser is evil because it's Chromium based and therefore helps enable Google's disastrous web hegemony.
If you think Firefox's lack of 100% compatibility with Google's self-serving bullshit is a bug instead of a feature, you're part of the problem.
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asdfasfasfasfasFirefox with user agent switcher addon.
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asdfasfasfasfasWIth user agent switcher, you can use firefox for the sites that make you use chrome. Hasn't failed me yet with the three sites I need to use that would not work on firefox without it.
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