Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

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aphextron ◴[21 Dec 18 19:26 UTC] No.18735814[source]▶

I'd been really loving Brave and using it as my daily driver for a few months now, until that I noticed that little "Brave Ads" icon at the end of the address bar. That's when I realized their entire business model is just in the usurpation of existing Google ad revenue, dressed up with "privacy concerns" for the good PR. This sent me on a journey to find a really solid, free, Chromium based browser that is totally de-Googled, which seems absolutely impossible. I've tacitly settled on Vivaldi, but it's just impossible to really know if they are trustworthy as a company in the long run. Ultimately I feel like I can only trust a browser who's entire build process is open source at this point.

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1. colordrops ◴[21 Dec 18 20:44 UTC] No.18736485[source]▶

>>18735814 #

Brave is open source where Vivaldi is not. Vivaldi seems to have some performance issues as well.

Aren't the Brave ads opt-in?

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2. brandnewlow ◴[21 Dec 18 20:49 UTC] No.18736522[source]▶

>>18736485 (TP) #

Brave ads will be 100% opt-in.

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3. Sephr ◴[21 Dec 18 21:08 UTC] No.18736662[source]▶

>>18736522 #

"Will be" or "are"?

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4. jessaustin ◴[21 Dec 18 21:17 UTC] No.18736722[source]▶

>>18736522 #

That's not exactly symmetric with the policy for creators... You guys screwed up on this issue, and you need to stop everything else you're doing until you figure out how you're going to fix the screw-up and apologize. Until then, posting here is not helping your brand image. Maybe if you don't understand what you're doing wrong you could re-read this thread until you do, but really you should just hire a CPA. A bank is not allowed to commingle deposits with its own funds. You should not keep money that is intended for creators.

5. imustbeevil ◴[21 Dec 18 21:24 UTC] No.18736777{3}[source]▶

>>18736662 #

"Will be", as in, "are not".

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6. pedrocx486 ◴[21 Dec 18 23:54 UTC] No.18737825{4}[source]▶

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I have Brave installed on my work machine, it's opt-in... I don't have it activated and never even clicked the Ads button. It even shows as disabled in the settings.

7. brandnewlow ◴[22 Dec 18 03:44 UTC] No.18738788{3}[source]▶

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I used "will be" because the product has not actually been launched yet in a release version of Brave.

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