• Mr. Zeus@feddit.org
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    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.