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      What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren’t transphobic.

      You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I’m not a fan of Mozilla either, but that’s irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.

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          I‘m not even pro Brave but all that ad stuff is opt-in so it doesn‘t matter as long as you don‘t want to see ads. The arguments in this thread are starting to just loop in circles. Essentially using Brave is fine if you stick to the default. There‘s no sleazy stuff if you don‘t enable it and the CEO also doesn‘t make a dime from you if that‘s something you‘re concerned about. You could of course use a different chromium browser if you want but it‘s virtually the same thing.

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          The only two there that bother me are the affiliate code thing (reminds me of the Honey drama) and installing extra software without consent. The first was a bad call and probably related with how their ad replacement stuff works (if anything, they should merely axe affiliate links; Firefox has that as an option), and this"solution" to the latter is pretty odd to me:

          reinstall the browser without admin rights

          Why would a browser need admin rights in the first place? I haven’t used Windows in well over a decade, so I don’t think that particular one would be an issue for me.

          The rest can be grouped as:

          • bugs - bug fixes generally don’t get prioritized until enough users complain; I would be very picky if I was an at risk person (activist or whatever) and would probably only use Tor browser
          • opt-in services
          • their marketing department

          My options for chromium browsers are:

          • something with ineffective ad blocking
          • Opera - I used it before it became a chromium browser, then it went downhill; not FOSS
          • Brave, with all its warts

          Since ad blocking and FOSS are my prerequisites, Brave basically wins by default.

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      He could be next husband of Ivanka Trump - I don’t care

      If he provide good service for me - browser which fits my needs. I would even send him money every day

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        That’s the logic of as long as it benefits ME I don’t care and I support them no matter what they do. This same logic has been applied to all the shitty things done in history like slavery, war and so forth, and the reason the world is the way it is.

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    Unfortunately that would involve using the Brave browser, which is an antifeature in itself.

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    Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

    As does Linux.

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        An unrepentant homophobe who accused people who dislike him for his homophobic views/actions as being closed-minded and bigoted for disliking him over it.

        You can’t make this shit up

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    Let me know when it is discovered that they in fact replaced MS Recall with their own version that was scraping your data in yet another sketchy attempt to make money.

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    In this thread something I see a lot on lemmy is happening. Maybe someone can give me a hint on how that happens. The post itself is 90% upvotes, while the comment section is really anti-Brave (for good reasons). Do most upvotes come from people scrolling through without looking at the comment section and those with an opinion on the topic dive into it?

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      I upvote the post because I support the feature, and would like to see more browsers implement more privacy focused features.

      I upvote the anti-Brave comments, because fuck Brave.

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      Most people never bother to read anything beyond the title of the post. Let alone click the link to the article.

      Now, i don’t know how everyone sees up/down votes. But I always thought that content and comments that is relevant and promotes discussion is good. And comments that aren’t are bad.

      Rather than a measure of others opinions.

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      It seems to me most people simply upvote the post to reward OP for bringing things up, exposing etc. Comments serve opinions on the topic itself, but upvote/downvote is more for if it’s good according to community rules and if the topic itself is interesting.

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      people just scroll around up voting headlines that they think sound good or support their identity

      I try to counter this by randomly downvoting everything