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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Been using brave for a few years on mobile and desktop.
They uses to give away BAT, but they have refined their system to not give any unless you spend hours jumping through hoops and linking shoddy Chinese financial apps and crypto wallets.
I still use it for the privacy, but after reading this I will likely switch back to firefox or another chrome based browser.
decided to give the bat thing a go, had to sign up for this crypto thing. that is the only time I've ever been apart of a security breach
I've had nothing but issues, first things were good, then you had to make an Uphold account. Couldn't do that from my country, then account limit issues. You can only link your wallet to 4 devices and if you reset your phone it counted as adding a device. Locked me out of my wallet after 1 phone upgrade and replacing the cpu on my desktop.
Currently you have to set some sort of account overseer to collect BAT. I still get the ads, but they haven't sent a payout in months.
All in all I estimate about 450-550 BAT I "earned" watching their ads over the last 3 or 4 years was never paid out.
Are there are any mobile browsers that have ad blocking like brave?
Firefox for Android lets you install ublock origin as an extension. I absolutely refuse to use any other mobile browser.
Thrown privacy badger and if you are really feeling rebel and don't mind tinkering noscrypt
Firefox Focus as well. Built in ad blocker.
Mull. It's FOSS (Free open source software). It should be on the official f-droid repo but I believe the divestos repo pushes updates faster since they're the devs of the project.
You can use AdGuard on Android to block ads device wide. You can also install uBlock origin in Firefox Mobile.
I'm not sure for iOS
Kiwi Browser and Yandex Browser lets you use any Chromium extension, and Firefox Nightly, with some hacks, lets you use any Firefox addon available on the webstore.
Firefox's stable version also comes with uBlock.
Do not use Kiwi Browser. It's based on an extremely out of date version of chromium and therefore very vulnerable.
The hacky extension workaround also works for Firefox Beta now if you don't want to deal with as many glitches that Nightly might have.
Fennec on F-Droid is the best for not having to resort to beta or nightly builds. However, none of the Firefox options let you sideload your own extensions like Kiwi.
Okay but I don't want to use Chromium.
Fair enough! Definitely give Fennec a try. I switch between it and Kiwi myself (the latter for a few paywall extensions and PWA).
Yeah, vivaldi. Vivaldi is pretty neat, it has ad/tracker blocker. It also allows you to create multiple tab groups so your can categorise tabs and they don't get all clutterd. It's also a chromium browser. It doesnt do anything on fingerprinting though, but i don't know if brave does that.
A few, DDG was popular for a while but I recall reading they sold out recently?
Yes
Firefox has extension support on android
edge has built in adblocker
samsung browser has built in adblocker
not sure about iphone...
mm yes samsung browser & edge definately gonna be way more trustworthy than brave.
Firefox. Ad blocking on my mobile is the same as my pc
Soul Browser with ad block and super configurable.
What privacy? You do realize the browser has access to all the data it renders right?
Mostly not sharing with ISPs, and blocking trackers, cookies and some ads natively is nice too.
Right but you also have to trust that the browser doesn't send your info to its mothership. Because unlike cookies, trackers and such, it has access to all your data.
I mean it's refaced chromium, isn't the mothership google?
Doesn't google already know what shade of pink/brown my asshole is?