Lol. Probably Brave users think they gonna be rich by earning tokens for ads :) brave just uses peoples greed
this, it’s a cryptomoney scheme. They need to promote Brave in order to increase the value of the cryptomoney token. There’s also an affiliate referral link program I’ve seen spammed a couple of times
if all of this will turn out to be an elaborate scheme to increase the value of BAT, that would be very impressive lol
Exactly, it is astonishing how easy to sell garbage appealing to greed. And how easily people consent to believe that something useless has value. Brave not paying in USD, it pays with useless token, so literally people got as much money for watching brave ads as they believe the value of bat token is.
you can technically get usd for your bat tokens on some exchanges, no?
yes, but amount of usd is determined be peoples estimations how much bat costs :) And nothing prevents it from sinking to 0 one day.
upd. not sure though, ca a year ago I tried brave , got ad and bats, but there was no withdrawal mechanism or it required phone number and kyc
I think that any person who can fall into gambling, can get into this too.
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I’ll never understand the normies that use Brave. They’re like “it keeps my data private” blah blah blah. Don’t trust nothing unless you can see it’s code. Also really irritates me when they start recommending it to other uneducated people.
The problem is that there are too few eyes on the code, and Brave is not taken seriously in the cybersec circle, unlike how Firefox is used as base for Tor Browser.
Also, Brave’s developers are malicious in intent, adding spyware, crypto junk and malware all the time, and posturing a lot in media to look good. Honeypot botnet.
Don’t trust nothing unless you can see it’s code
Isn’t it the case with Brave?
You can see the code here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
Sharing what I posted here: https://lemmy.ml/post/63392
I feel that we must do more as a community to be positive and inclusive. I’m not a fan of Brave but I don’t think it is good to villanise people who use the browser.
If we want to get more people to use more Free, Libre & opensource software we need to make sure to be inclusive and informative so that people can make informed decisions by themselves. If you believe you are right and have good reasons for it the information you have should be enough to help people make a good and thoughtfull judgement.
People who dunk on brave and it’s users don’t care about libre software but care about being superior.
So stop smearing Brave and dunk on its users and inspire people to use cool and ethical software. <3
I agree with you, but as the OP says, Brave users, being dissidents from the Firefox community, resent Mozilla and its supporters. They are extremely hostile and they don’t like criticism of their browser. It will be difficult to convince them…
That is true, but means there is even less reason to take this approach. The current approach does nothing but satiate owns feelings. In political terms to me it is the same as people use all their time talking down other political ideas but never uses time to try to do something positive and constructive with their time. People who have nothing better to contribute to the world other than put other people down.
Changing this thought pattern would do so much for the FLOSS movement!
They probably don’t even mind youtube ads, they just want to be part of “the next big thing”
They are pretty toxic, it seems. I was told to “go back to firefox, they are wokies like you”. And a couple other comments from brave’s fan base.
i had a similar experience. i made a post on r/Brave about the lack of sensible defaults for the news feed (it had just rolled out to me at the time) and got a ton of reactionaries in the replies. i switched to Firefox out of spite and never looked back.
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Bootlicking goes brrrt
How about no ads? Once you force ads into something I use or make it impossible for me to block them, it is time to find an alternative.
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Although I thought the same, you can just disable them
