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minus-squarenik0@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoI believe I remember they had a crypto thing going on
minus-squareichbinjasokreativ@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agothey will show you their own ads through operating system notifications, but without collecting your personal data to do so. the program is also entirely opt-in and is thus disabled by default, so the user has to knowingly and willingly enable it.
minus-squarekate@lemmy.uhhoh.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThey guy that founded brave only did so after getting fired from Mozilla for homophobia
minus-squareAfterAll@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoWHAT!? That’s wild, and the first I’m hearing of this.
minus-squareMannivu@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI heard this for the first time too, but it looks like they’re right https://web.archive.org/web/20191223181612/https://leafandcore.com/2016/09/03/brave-is-a-browser-that-could-save-the-web-but-its-from-an-awful-person/
Why so?
I believe I remember they had a crypto thing going on
they will show you their own ads through operating system notifications, but without collecting your personal data to do so. the program is also entirely opt-in and is thus disabled by default, so the user has to knowingly and willingly enable it.
They guy that founded brave only did so after getting fired from Mozilla for homophobia
WHAT!? That’s wild, and the first I’m hearing of this.
I heard this for the first time too, but it looks like they’re right https://web.archive.org/web/20191223181612/https://leafandcore.com/2016/09/03/brave-is-a-browser-that-could-save-the-web-but-its-from-an-awful-person/