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[–] 4am@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The amount of people I see on Lemmy saying “Ugh Google is so bad with all their Chrome shenanigans! I install Brave on my own and all my family’s computers!” is honestly heartbreaking 🤦‍♂️

[–] MaxVerstappen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The browser's original purpose was to market their shitcoin wasn't it?

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox ftw

[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The thing that pushed me off of brave before joining this community was that the fonts were broken on NixOS lmao

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Between this and Chrome pushing their DRM bullshit to stop adblocking in Chromium based browsers, it's a fine time to get everybody to switch to Firefox (which is a better browser anyways).

[–] tajj@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't believe they're doing this AGAIN

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a three year old post, friend.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shits getting recommended like it happened today

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it happens on “hot” when you get low enough, I’ve noticed.

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’d really like some additional sources on this. But yeah. Even a sample of one is not good

[–] carloshr 7 points 1 year ago

Did you note that this is a 3 years old post m

[–] schwim@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't news. This has been Brave's business model from the beginning.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It's a 3 year old post...

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are affiliatie codes?

[–] HerbalGamer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Links that give them a little bit of money everytime someone clicks them basically