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Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

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323 points plusCubed | 4 comments | 21 Dec 18 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.665s | source
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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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colordrops ◴[21 Dec 18 20:44 UTC] No.18736485[source]▶
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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brandnewlow ◴[21 Dec 18 20:49 UTC] No.18736522[source]▶
Brave ads will be 100% opt-in.
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1. Sephr ◴[21 Dec 18 21:08 UTC] No.18736662[source]▶
"Will be" or "are"?
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2. imustbeevil ◴[21 Dec 18 21:24 UTC] No.18736777[source]▶
"Will be", as in, "are not".
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3. pedrocx486 ◴[21 Dec 18 23:54 UTC] No.18737825[source]▶
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.
4. brandnewlow ◴[22 Dec 18 03:44 UTC] No.18738788[source]▶
I used "will be" because the product has not actually been launched yet in a release version of Brave.