• HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t see any of this as legitimate reasons to stop using Brave.

    • yes the CEO donated $1k some 10 years ago to anti-LGBT stuff, and that’s bad, but kinda small fries in the totality of factors.

    • ads. Firefox has ads and trackers just like Brave. You can disable them on either.

    • you can also disable crypto.

    • hijacking affiliate codes is unethical and should be stopped but don’t actually affect me in any way.

    What else ya got?

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      The “anti-LGBT stuff” is enough imo. It may be “small fries”, but I’d rather not support someone (or their company) when they clearly don’t support me.

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      hijacking affiliate codes is unethical and should be stopped but don’t actually affect me in any way.

      I mean, alright. But you could say “I don’t care” about any infraction of freedom and/or trust. I trust software to not modify my intent, any software that does so without asking can not be trusted in any way.

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        Agree to disagree, I suppose. It’s worth it for the comprehensive privacy features.

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            I do. In fact I use 5 different browsers on a semi-regular basis. None of them are vanilla Firefox. Most of the “more private” browsers simply don’t work on many pages.

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      hijacking affiliate codes is unethical and should be stopped but don’t actually affect me in any way.

      It does affect you because it would have meant that you couldn’t claim cashback offers from sites like TopCashback and Rakuten, as the cashback site’s affiliate code would have been replaced with Brave’s.

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      CEO donating to what’s cause is ideology that should be separated from you assessment of the product.

      I don’t care about this, sounds like another Hogwarts fiasco.