mesa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive adswww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down10
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minus-squarezewm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWeird that you tell people not to use Chrome because it’s adware but suggest Brave which is a crypto miner.
minus-squareWalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoBrave 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.
minus-squarePeffse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI 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.
minus-squareTywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoBeing owned by a turd is reason enough not to use it.
minus-squareLunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoI 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.
Weird that you tell people not to use Chrome because it’s adware but suggest Brave which is a crypto miner.
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.
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.
Being owned by a turd is reason enough not to use it.
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.