Brave just released their own privacy-preserving AI assistant named Leo.
Brave just released their own privacy-preserving AI assistant named Leo.
You can test it in Brave Nightly 1.59.
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https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser
The Brave web browser has carved out a niche over the past few years as an alternative to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and other mainstream web browsers. Some of that has come from its marketing as a privacy-preserving web browser, and it has also been repeatedly evangelized by cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.
Also likely its dataset was trained on stolen user data.
Exactly. AI and privacy don't fit in the same sentence.
Except for the part where the article has a metric fuckton of sources. Just shut the fuck up if you don't want to even read the content you rant about.
ed: wait your profile lmfao. Brendan is that you? If not, he won't fuck you you can stop simping lol
Who simps for a company this hard? Seems like a Brave PR account with the age and previous pro-Brave content posted.
Yeah yikes, that's just pathetic
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Wow, that’s worse than I thought. What a shitty company. Glad I made the right judgement when they went all in on cryptocurrency bullshit.
It’s so easy to download the Hardened Firefox profile and tweak uBlock to do a way better job. I don’t know anything about brave but the fact it gets pushed a lot by paid sponsors was always a bit concerning for me.
Your quote is worthless, that summary doesn't give any reason what's problematic about the browser.
It's also unfortunate that the article's author chose to start with politics - I prefer technical reasons to stop using technical tools.
The crypto bullshit and injection of affiliate codes to URLs are indeed problematic. However, to me that just says to stay vigilant when using Brave but it's still not as bad as Chrome.
Personally I use Firefox anyway but unfortunately, webdevs get lazier every year and only test Chromium browsers and sometimes some stupid website doesn't work correctly on Firefox. If it's something like an airline checkout I need a fallback browser and today that's Brave.
Your quote is worthless, that summary doesn't give any reason what's problematic about the browser.
That's why you read the fucking article, sheesh...