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[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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?

[–] lieuwex@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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