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by cbm-vic-20 1463 days ago
>>impersonates well known influencers to sell their products without their knowledge > That's has been fixed, it affected the minority as crypto is disabled by default on brave.

"We got caught doing something shady and fixed it" has been used a number of times by Brave. That's not a good look for a team that's presenting themselves as the white knights of the internet. Why would they be doing that shady stuff in the first place?

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I agree, it isn't perfect, but nothing really is. Firefox has a unique key for every installer that can link people together, and runs Ads on the home page which is new (on brave its enable by default since brave ADs started)
Companies are prone to Groupthink: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink