wpb comments on Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I don't have a strong opinion on brave, but here's some reasons I can think of:

cryptocoin shit
based on chromium (so using this instead of firefox, for example, increases google's hegemony -- and this is true: even though chromium is open source, google completely controls its direction)
CEO is a homophobe
scammy business practices like inserting affiliate codes in urls

And this is just the stuff that I know from the top of my head. I don't particularly care about this topic, so I'm sure there's more. Although, having written all this out, I can sense that my opinion of Brave has worsened significantly.

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[–] Newuser@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't it open source ? Can someone build a fork with all of this shit removed ?

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

Yeah I guess. Doesn't really change any of the arguments against it though. I mean, it's good that it's open source of course, but the ceo is still a homophobe, for example. And it still chromium based, and so on.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

The CEO is a POS and has ties to other rich unsavory people

In the past they have done money grabs. It's been quite a while now.

They still run their own ad network and search engine, They're definitely down to sell you out if you let them.

If you never sign up for the crypto, or use the VPN, and remove the buttons, it won't hurt you.

If you run a plugin you can remove their newtab / default page

If you change the settings you can move off their search.

it is open source https://github.com/brave/brave-core

The only thing you're getting out of them that's above any other de-googled option is their anti-fingerprinting which is a little better than the others.

The other reason you'd run them is because they have a paid development staff blocking Youtube ads and they're not doing it at the plugin level, so it'll likely outlast the plugin models in Youtube's race to piss people off.

In the end, if you're in it for the paid blocking, doesn't hurt to pay them something if you're turning off all the stuff they're using to make money on you.

If you're in it for any other reason, there are literally dozens of forks you could use that give you the same experience that aren't trying to sell you as their product.

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