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by rascul 546 days ago
I'm not convinced that it's much more than a Chrome skin with an integrated crypto scam.
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IronRod 546 days ago
I've used Brave for years. Never used any of the crypto features. It is just a solid, privacy-based, chromium-based browser.
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bufferoverflow 546 days ago
You don't have to use the crypto features.
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Meph504 546 days ago
when the defense of a project is that you can turn off the bad features, you aren't really making a chase better than say chrome or anything else.

A product built on trust, shouldn't involve having to go turn off untrustworthy elements.

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bufferoverflow 546 days ago
You don't need to turn off "bad features". Just don't use them. Just like the rest of the browser features you don't use, which there are many of.
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Ageodene 546 days ago
You don't need to "turn off the bad features" because they are opt-in to begin with.
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satvikpendem 546 days ago
I shouldn't need to opt into or out of features that shouldn't exist in the first place, much less in a browser.
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Spivak 545 days ago
You're scraping the paint off with how far you're dragging the goalposts.

Brave has a weird crypto thing, it's on not by default, it's not pushed on you, I don't even know how to turn it on.

Firefox right now today has ads in the URL bar. I'm using Waterfox to avoid all Mozilla's garbage but Brave is up near the top of least shitty.

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satvikpendem 545 days ago
Up near the top? It literally had a controversies section on Wikipedia due to all these shady things it did, with cryptocurrency and others, I am not sure how worse it can get [0]. I'll take URL ads any day of the week compared to the kinds of things Brave pulled over the years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brave_(web_browse...

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lelanthran 545 days ago
> when the defense of a project is that you can turn off the bad features, you aren't really making a chase better than say chrome or anything else.

> A product built on trust, shouldn't involve having to go turn off untrustworthy elements.

This is very misleading! You don't "turn off" bad features in Brave. You have to explicitly turn them on. By default it's off.

Just like how you don't have to visit dodgy sites in Chrome; you have to take action to visit dodgy sites.

Same with Brave - you don't have to do any crypto stuff; you have to put in extra work and effort to do the crypto stuff.

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mynameyeff 546 days ago
The crypto part isn’t something you turn off. It’s buried in a menu somewhere. For all intents and purposes, it’s a pretty elegant UX.
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