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Why not Brave and Alternative to Brave. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Harry_h0udini@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I've been seeing a lot of people hate and uninstall Brave. Why? It's not like they're tracking us or doing anything else shady. If so, what's the privacy alternative?

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pro digial cash / Monero ... but it doesn't belong in a web browser. Super sketchy shit they are doing with BAT, which means they are tracking you.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I legitimately would be fine with automatically paying authors. It's not like I enjoy pay walls, ads, or AI garbage writing.

But yeah that's a job for existing crypto and a Firefox extension. Nothing about this needed a separate money supply or browser.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but if you automatically pay authors a dollar or two for every view, rather than your data, then how will data brokers resell your data hundreds of times for hundreds of dollars?