• zewm@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Weird that you tell people not to use Chrome because it’s adware but suggest Brave which is a crypto miner.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.today
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      3 months ago

      Brave has built-in wallet support and such, but I don’t think it does any mining, does it? It just has its own opt-in ad system to pays out in crypto and is also owned by a turd.

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          3 months ago

          I use tons of software developed by people with whom I would probably disagree on politics.

          Rejecting a program because one of the developers said something you didn’t like is just childish.

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            3 months ago

            That entirely depends on if there’s an equivalent developed by not an asshole.

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        3 months ago

        I dumped Brave when it decided to install its VPN as a service without my consent. I had so much trouble ripping out all the traces of that.

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          3 months ago

          I completely forgot about that. Yeah, it’s fucked.

          Imagine if you bought a Microsoft game, say Forza, and it installed a bunch of candy crush games alongside it without asking you.

          It’s scummy as fuck.