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Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Nope.
No, I don't trust them. Their idea to replace people ad with their own ad (https://archive.is/W0k4j) and their experiment with cryptocoin are two of the biggest red flags.
Just use firefox instead of brave if you wanted a privacy respecting browser
Don’t trust Brave nor its conspiracy spreading, narrow-minded CEO Brendan Eich.
Never trusted them, they just feel like a Opera clone with a "crypto bro" mindset haha
Absolutely not
brave is like the mcafee of browsers Theoretically protects you, but there are much better options
I personally do trust Brave as a company. I don't think they're perfect by any means, and I strongly disagree with and dislike their CEO, but overall I think their browser is the best Chromium option out there, and search engine is probably 2nd best to Kagi. I don't primarily use Brave's browser, I do mainly stick to and recommend hardened Firefox (as I dislike and am strongly against Chromium and it's monopoly), but for the rare times I run into a site that needs Chromium, I use Brave. I do also primarily use Brave's search engine because I think it's just currently the best option out there for search (Kagi is excellent overall but its paid and too expensive imo), and I love that Brave Search has its own index, so no reliance on big tech like Google and Microsoft, unlike other options like StartPage and DDG. I've never bothered with Brave's VPN.
I just think overall a lot of Brave as a company's controversies have been blown out of proportion and aren't as big of a deal as people make them out to be. Their browser is open source which means it can be fully audited, they have very strong privacy protections in place out of the box, and they're even recommended by trustworthy sources like Privacy Guides. Their browser and search engine is really solid from a technical standpoint, and I don't think that should be overlooked just because of a few fuck-ups as a company which were walked back and fixed.
Brendan Eich is a little bitch.
No.
When I have to set up one of my not-so-privacy-conscius friends' system, I usually install Brave and turn most of the shit off. Not because it's the best choice out there, but because it basically doesn't have a learning curve for ex-chrome users and is still probably the best, when it comes to chromium-based browsers.
I never trust a company that pretends to provide a browser that respects my privacy for free. "Free" and "privacy" are mutually exclusive in the corporate surveillance economy.
In order of trust I put it third for browsers that I expect to work with most of the internet. It goes Tor, Firefox, and finally Brave. I like Brave's direction and appreciate them trying to find ethical and sustainable funding models, but they're just not as heavily audited as the first two
I don't trust VPNs that I don't run, Tor is the answer here for me too. Search I am not sure how it compares to DDG tbh so no idea
In terms of level of trust, it's enough for a threat model that doesn't include state actors or any other APT, but nothing more. it shouldn't be ran with elevated privileges and should be sandboxed (i.e. flatpak) and if possible on a separate system from sensitive information. I could be convinced otherwise but I haven't seen a reputable organization discuss an audit of it's code nor have I audited it's code
Fuck no.
Why would I?
Not really. I used it for ~2 years but after a conversation on irc 5 months ago I switched back to Firefox and I have been mostly using it ever since. Search I trust slightly more and the VPN I dont really trust at all. Also it is better to support firefox and other smaller browser engines so chromium does not have a monopoly on web browser engines. Now that I don't use mobile as much and I don't really care about syncing I am happy with firefox. I originally started using brave because I used an iPad a lot and brave was the only free ios browser with ad block back then. The history with injecting referrals into urls and all the crypto crap makes me not trust it much anymore.
Nothing chrome based deserves my trust. Don’t need to even start about the shady crypto shit in regard to brave.
No. Still stumps me why some people put it up there with Firefox, there is no contest. Brave is sketch as hell.
Absolutely NO
Brave is (or at least, was) a good browser technically (as good as any Chromium implementation), at least while it still has the ability to turn off their crypto crap, the proxy/vpn integration and run a "clean" version, but I highly doubt those options will remain forever the way their wankbag of a CEO seems to want to go with it, he can not be trusted.
So no I cant say I trust them anymore, they will make money from you, in increasingly devious ways.
There are many, many better "Clean Chromium" browsers out there like Librewolf that are a better way to go.
No
Yes except for the VPN as I know nothing about it but that doesn't mean I'll go and blindly recommend any product they release, as with every other company I will read about the product as much as necessary to make an educated decision