It is autocompleting a URL for you, in a manner that is profitable for them... but you still get to the site you are going to.
I could use Mozilla Firefox 77.0.1 (the current version), but its own web layout engine is a tad slow at times.
I'm one of them. Dang, this doesn't make me happy. Yesterday I learned that Ubuntu 20.04 installed an empty chromium package and some issues with snap installing by default w/o user knowledge or consent, now this.
This after I made the very conscious decision to kick Micosoft all the way out of my house and convert everything I had to Ubuntu Linux.
Just damn.
What's a privacy minded luddite like me to do to protect my privacy and security? It's damn' near impossible.
Lately I have been using the Avast browser and it seems pretty good. It’s chrome based, it has some privacy features and it’s stand alone so you don’t have to install Avast anti virus to use it.
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Funny. I never used it but once was going to try. DDG ive been using since for years now becaause of the anti-tracker feature for privacy which everyone here likes.
This is just anti-Brave propaganda. Initially it was touted that Brave rewrote links in pages. But it's just doing it in the autocomplete. In what is basically the search bar, and frankly Google does it with search too, benefiting ad programs. Often I catch link shortening services doing the same thing with temporary redirects.
It's a nice browser, and the auto-complete can be switched off, which isn't a bad idea anyway (my daily driver is so old there isn't any autocomplete anyway; Brave isn't available). Mostly works faster than most, although the load time for the background graphic when opening a fresh window or tab seems to take forever when I'm at work (aging CPUs).
I will personally vouch for Brendan Eich as good guy. A fairly conservative, pro-life, family man. He is trying to make Brave work as a business model and that may mean misjudgments along the way. He is human. All things considered this is minor.
I don’t use it, and probably never will. I tried it in its infancy and found it lacking. I prefer Flashpeak Slimjet and Palemoon.
Huge nothingburger. The left still has it out for Eich for supporting traditional marriage.
IE and Edge will direct you to Bing which is al;so owned by Microsoft. You type in the correct address but you still end up at Bing.
I’ll stay w/ Opera v68.0, thankyouverymuch.
“I know a lot of FReepers swear by Brave.”
I’ve used it for years, and never had an issue. I wouldn’t care either way—don’t rely on autocomplete. I much prefer my own misteaks. ;)
I just shut down my last social media account yesterday (Linked In) and don’t use any regular search engines, so I feel pretty good. Brave is decent, and I’d rather support someone who is a PC outlaw...
I like brave. I don’t care if they make a buck or two as long as I get where I’m going, safely and without invasion of my machine and personal stuff. I wanted a browser independant of google and microsoft, and I got it. I don’t like tracking and I don’t like that I can’t add a privacy software to it that I like. I can’t think of the name of it...u origin or something to that effect.
But one thing I do love is that I don’t have to endure the ads in utube vids. A good part of the reason for not watching tv has is advertizing. I hate advertising! If I want something I know how to search for it. I don’t even read magazines anymore because advertising is so out of control.
I like brave better than anything else I’ve used out there.
“Brave was caught redirecting the typed URL for Binance, a popular crypto exchange, to a different version of the site’s URL that Brave earned revenue from. It was doing this without gaining the consent of Brave users. “
this is basically bullshit and nothing more than a political attack on Brave ... there are millions of links on thousands of sites (usually product review sites) that point to amazon items that include information that tells amazon where the link originated so amazon can spiff the originator with some kind of kickback ... this is pretty much now simply standard operating procedure ...
(btw, one of the interesting issues i’ve seen with these type of product review links is that while the review site sings the products merits to high heaven, when you look at the actual verified purchaser reviews on amazon, the products are often three star or lower, so as usual, buyer beware and free reviews are worth how much you paid for them.)
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And Vivaldi just did a virtue signal...
Binance is one of the companies that advertise with Brave. I will load their ads to get the BAT. As long as they don’t send PII, I am not too concerned about it. But it is good to see that the legacy media regards them as a threat. IMO it means that Brave is on the right track.
Gotta pay for those BATs somehow.
So long as the user's privacy isn't compromised by the redirection -- which is the whole idea behind Brave in the first place -- I say no big deal.