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Not only that, but he has another account, @BraveSampson, which links to this one, @jonathansampson, but not the other way around. They used to have a nearly-identical pictures, and, IIRC, linked to each other, but not anymore. Would I be the only one to find it fishy for someone to post such reviews for your competitors whilst pretending that you're an individual not on a payroll from Brave? Why should Mozilla proxy requests to Google through their own servers like Brave does? And the better question: Why IS Brave MITM proxying requests to Google and other services? BTW, having multiple Twitter accounts is not against the rules if each account is for a separate purpose, but for someone working in the browser industry to be having two separate accounts where they write about browsers on each one, all whilst hiding their affiliation and pretending to be an unaffiliated individual on one of them?! Seriously? --- Keep in mind that Brave and Chrome are the ultimate privacy violators, as it's not possible to disable autoupdates on either one; Brave developers repeatedly (see https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/1877) disregarded community's complaints about this issue (ironically, going against https://brendaneich.com/2014/01/trust-but-verify/); so, you're basically running a self-modifying binary, whether you like it or not. Any review anyone does is kinda meaningless, because there aren't any versions per se, and it can do whatever the hell it wants the next day, without any public record of what it did yesterday. With Mozilla, there's a public ftp directory with all the versions at `ftp.mozilla.org` — haven't seen anything like that for neither Brave nor Chrome. In fact, many folks used various official guides from Google to disable Chrome from autoupdating itself, e.g., because the newer versions broke font support or other system-level features, only to find such officially-sanctioned settings completely ignored down the line. How about doing a review of how much it costs in roaming fees to have Chrome/Brave download updates without your permission whilst you're travelling? Or how many hosts Brave does MITM to without any good reason? |