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 🤦♂️
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2020
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The browser's original purpose was to market their shitcoin wasn't it?
Firefox ftw
The thing that pushed me off of brave before joining this community was that the fonts were broken on NixOS lmao
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).
Can't believe they're doing this AGAIN
This is a three year old post, friend.
Shits getting recommended like it happened today
Yeah, it happens on “hot” when you get low enough, I’ve noticed.
I’d really like some additional sources on this. But yeah. Even a sample of one is not good
Oh!!!
First. Yes thank you.
Second. Yeah eff them
Did you note that this is a 3 years old post m
This isn't news. This has been Brave's business model from the beginning.
It's a 3 year old post...
What are affiliatie codes?
Links that give them a little bit of money everytime someone clicks them basically