Brave just released their own privacy-preserving AI assistant named Leo. : technology

[-] ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago

I'm supposed to trust BRAVE with privacy? Did I receive a massive head injury and not realize it?

[+] roadkill@kbin.social 27 points 10 months ago

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[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

Also likely its dataset was trained on stolen user data.

[-] MahatmaGandhalf@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

Exactly. AI and privacy don't fit in the same sentence.

[-] Rooki@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

https://lemmy.world/post/1510069

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Wow, that’s worse than I thought. What a shitty company. Glad I made the right judgement when they went all in on cryptocurrency bullshit.

[-] GigglyBobble@kbin.social -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Your quote is worthless, that summary doesn't give any reason what's problematic about the browser.

It's also unfortunate that the article's author chose to start with politics - I prefer technical reasons to stop using technical tools.

The crypto bullshit and injection of affiliate codes to URLs are indeed problematic. However, to me that just says to stay vigilant when using Brave but it's still not as bad as Chrome.

Personally I use Firefox anyway but unfortunately, webdevs get lazier every year and only test Chromium browsers and sometimes some stupid website doesn't work correctly on Firefox. If it's something like an airline checkout I need a fallback browser and today that's Brave.

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 26 points 10 months ago

Shady browser from a shady company.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In the comments: crypto bros and privacy nerds have the same shit fight they always have in every brave post. I honestly don't think anyone even uses this browser and likely never will.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 0 points 10 months ago

I use it for YouTube and spotify because the ad block works. Firefox i had some sites that wouldn't work with the extensions I have running

[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

...Aaaand I'm officially tossing the browser. AI has it's place, and that is not embedded in every fucking program I use.

[-] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

How is Brave covering cost of this thing?

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

Probably with the money they made secretly redirecting users to their own referral links when visiting crypto websites.

[-] Shizu@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

There is a paid subscription tier of the brave search which certainly is used to partitially fund this project. Other than that. Brave also serves ads in their search results for free users. Those however are not based on your profile but are based on your current search (similar how DuckDuckGo and Startpage are handling their ads).

[-] FatCat@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago

Blog post from Brave: https://brave.com/leo-release/

[+] ooli@lemmy.world -7 points 10 months ago

sorry you got downvoted by mob mentality. Thanks for sharing

[-] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 7 points 10 months ago

I mean, they're scummy but you're right. There's no reason to downvote news. OP isn't advertising.

[-] Rooki@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

OP advertised it in my opinion. Because he didnt talked about it. Just posted a pic and small text.

[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 0 points 10 months ago

If I were to post a link to a Google Chrome "What's New" post and say nothing else, would I also be advertising?

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