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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Frostwolf@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] ryan659@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Brave likes to push BAT (and thus its own ads replacing the existing ones on the web) but it's ultimately opt-out. Same with their analytics (which, in fairness, Firefox also does by default).

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave is shady af. It's also pretty much just Chrome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735777

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

The article you mention is about the search engine, not the browser.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Brave doesn't replace web ads with their ads. Their ads they show you for you to earn BAT are in a totally different area. Places like system notifications.

I don't support Brave, but it is important that we criticize them accurately.