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Brave's aggressive marketing (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Was reading an answer to the question about fresh Amazon tablet and saw this. They used up the question as a hook to promote their browser. Pretty sure I'm avoiding Brave from now on.

Q: Does the fire max 11 have YouTube app on it. A: I have installed Google Playstore , but I skip installing Youtube app . There is better option . Brave Browser in Playstore !! That thing has AWESOME popup Blocker and it's own integrated Youtube Ads and other Nuisances blocker . My point ? You don't need youtube on Fire max , You don't need Google Maps , You don't need Facebook App . Just Use Brave .

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[–] [email protected] 274 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I really doubt that is marketing. I just think that’s an over-enthusiastic user.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Idk, sound like a paid comment to me.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago

Brave and Opera GX both have lots of fanboys

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

It's not even a comment, it's an answer to an Q&A on amazon, I'm sure there are more efficient ways to advertise a browser.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

You're paranoid, mate

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I shill brave on iOS regularly as a way to get past ads on mobile and watch with background playback. But that’s more because of how much I hate ads than any loyalty to brave. I highly doubt they’re paying for the kind of low quality shilling this guy is doing on Amazon. If they are, they can start paying me as well!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

if you're interested in alternatives with adblockers:

adguard extension for safari, for general browsing
video lite app for youtube, or any other video playing website. It's a browser disguised as video player, but it's really well done, feels like I'm using the oficial youtube app

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Perhaps you sound like a FireFox or otherwise Anti-Brave shill

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Do you really think that amazon questions is a place ada would be put into? Not for something sold on Amazon mind you, but a browser!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly a bit surprised their comment doesn't contain the user's affiliate links. "Over-enthusiastic" users used to spam theirs everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I really don't understand why people use and recommend brave. They've have had plenty of shady practices in the past and bundle crypto crap by default. If you want to block ads just install ublock origin on (preferably) any privacy respecting browser like firefox (or better yet librewolf), ungoogled-chromium etc

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

They just don't know any better. And when you tell them about Brave's history, they just don't listen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the first time I heard about this. Was using it in the past on iOS, but I’m now using an extension in safari to block ads. What exactly is wrong with Brave?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They were using crypto miners in Brave (now it's just opt-out optional I think), altering search result's, and also something about their CEO being a weirdo I think. And also all this dirty advertising and tactics. They're just shady all around.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was never a miner in Brave. Their legitimate crypto related features have always been optional. They did add referal links in some urls though

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah I tried it on mobile and it peppered me with requests/pop-ups to get their paid services.. Install didn't last long

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox runs really poorly for twitch and youtube videos for me in linux; mainly in CPU. Brave will use maybe 10-20% of my cpu for a single twitch stream whereas firefox uses about 80%. I use firefox for all my browsing, but for videos it just doesn't seem to work well... Perhaps a different chromium browser would be better as you say.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sounds like your Firefox is not using hardware acceleration for displaying videos. It does support it, but whether it will be enabled on Linux depends on a bunch of factors (distro/packages installed, cpu/gpu vendor/drivers, some weird settings etc etc)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The situation on mobile is dire. Bromite and Ungoogled-Chromium are dead, and mobile Firefox is slow crap that Mozilla doesn't give two fucks about. I'm grinding my teeth using IceRaven and Mulch, but I'm not surprised those with less patience would use an all-in-one solution.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Brave sucks. Firefox + uBlock Origin is superior.

Yes I'm a Firefox Supremacist.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait untill OP says you are paid by mozilla

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So then he's partially paid by me!

Link for compatibility

^Yes.^ ^Making^ ^this^ ^joke^ ^inspired^ ^me^ ^to^ ^donate,^ ^at^ ^least^ ^something.^

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Chad(And my joke is having a value for the first time)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this. I just donated to them too.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Gentle reminder that Brave's CEO is a known bigot and the browser is just chrome with a few extensions and fresh coat of paint.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You're selling them short. They also developed some crypto shit to shoehorn into it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Isn't he a Blockchain/crypto grifter as well?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Maybe, but there are LOT of weirdly aggressive Brave fanboys out there that would probably say shit like this without getting paid. Not sure how they convinced people that they were so great. Brave is a decent browser but it has a sketchy history, just like the people behind it. Would definitely recommend staying away.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Have to agree with others that this looks like an episode of FanboysGoneWild, but there are reasons to question, if not outright ceasing to use Brave and they center around their CEO, Brendan Eich. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look ! Firefox marketing ! Gotta boycott them !

[–] BigBootyBoy 17 points 1 year ago

All those wonderful people are all just passionate firefox users, and you could be one too! All have have to do is get firefox! Please get firefox, it's great! You should totally get firefox!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I mean, there are plenty of reasons not to use Brave but this poorly-written, obviously-not-a-paid-review doesn't really rank up there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is some really aggressive marketing.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what marketing campaign you think is going to tell a normal non-tech literate user to install not only a third party app store which they'd have to sideload through a complicated process, but also do so in the reviews section for a random product instead of just paying the 1/10th of a cent it takes to run an ad somewhere relevant. This post is legitimately so poorly thought out it frustrates me. Go get yourself evaluated for anxiety if you feel this distrustful of the world, my word it's insane.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Never quite understood the will for people to put so much reliance on the endpoint to filter things, at least if your talking about a device bot likely to leave home on any regular basis. It just makes it difficult to maintain cocnsistent results if you have to configure everything individually. A network level firewall + DNS filter of choice can cover a good amount of the problems of these type of things aim to resolve for everyone on the network, even if you don't get into the extreme ends of things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Is this post paid marketing for Brave browser?

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