Who says they aren't going to again make undocumented changes to make it easier for casual users or do something that's legal but unethical to support their own growth?Īnd even if I didn't had those concerns. But you'll have to forgive if I'm a bit sceptical about the future development. So now they say that's brave ads are opt-in and all ad-targeting will be done offline. Brendan Eich openly stated that opt-in would be bad for their growth, and that's obviously more important than not deceiving user or using unsuspecting content creators. And that only after their practices were uncovered. Tom Scott discovered that and after it became public brave promised to create an op-out. But if the creator isn't verified with brave the BAT the user ment to send them are set aside for some time (90 days I believe, maybe shorter), there is no(!) attempt made to try and notify the creator to verify themselves so they can access the BAT, and after the time is up the money (BAT) goes back to the brave folks, without notifying the user. Brave gave users the impression they could give to creators just by visiting their website. I wouldn't trust brave shield after that.Īnother thing is that they use content creators to promote their BAT rewards system, even without the creators knowledge. They did that in order to not break websites for casual users, but that really doesn't explain why they forgot to document that for advanced users. One thing was that they whitelisted Facebook (!) without disclosing it or warning users about it. That's how they plan to make money in the long term.ĭespite their young age they also have been caught doing things that are questionable at best, but in my opinion just unethical. I think a lot of people are uneasy with brave because like Google they are ultimately an advertising company. They obviously also have their own features, namely their "shield" that blocks some tracking and their cryptocurrency BAT. Brave no longer forks Electron, they have moved to Chromium and are now much closer to Chrome in look, feel and functionality.
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