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by pkulak 1599 days ago
Brave hate is a meme because any time anyone wants to talk about anything internet, 100 accounts come out of the woodwork to tell us some Chromium wrapper is the second coming of Christ. The rest of us are sick of all the promotion and get chippy in response.

If you’ve been around long enough, you know they’re at least paying YouTubers to use and promote the browser without any disclosure. Who knows how far past that they are going.

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> you know they’re at least paying YouTubers to use and promote the browser without any disclosure

How do you know that? You sound jealous.

Because not everyone took the money and some talked about it in their twitch streams.

I'm not aware of anything recent though, last fiasco I'm aware of was something around 2020 I think, though I doubt they changed

Are you referring to 1) sponsorships or 2) creators verifying to receive donated BAT? Either way, donations and marketing are hardly evil.
Ad hominems and smear tactic, seems the usual form of the 50c army or zealots that pops up to attack brave.

Sources please?