• lugal
    2·
    18 hours ago

    If the product is free, you are the product

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    1 day ago

    “Our malware is limited by the browser sandbox, please install the native version of our malware.”

    YES APPS THAT TRACK YOU ARE OBJECTIVELY MALWARE

    • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      6·
      23 hours ago

      Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see much pressure to install open source apps. I would estimate that for every thousand call-to-actions involving software that comes my way, zero are open source.

  • Mr. Zeus@feddit.orgEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Brave blocks the nag-screens about opening and installing apps on your phone

        • Godort@lemm.ee
          15·
          1 day ago

          Mostly it’s their attitude to controversy.

          Brave has had several major issues over the past few years and they didn’t reverse course until press got bad enough for them to make a statement and try for damage control. This includes:

          • Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue

          • Inserting their own referral codes into auto complete when users navigate to Binance

          • Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent

          • Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying

          On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.

          • Mr. Zeus@feddit.orgEnglish
            11·
            1 day ago

            On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.

            you can turn off the google stuff

            Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying

            there’s other ways of using TOR, and I don’t even think they do that anymore, they fixed the problem after the criticism came out

            Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent

            Been using Brave for over 6 years now, that never happened on any of my machines

            Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue

            they don’t do that anymore, and honestly, I’d rather have it that way than allow google or facebook or any other website to have more money, but adblocking needs to be multi-layered anyway.