I’ve read some things online about it all but I’m not a total IT boff. Is it really true that Brave browser won’t be able to block ads once the changes are made next year?

Ps. I use Firefox with uBlock but my SO and most of my clients absolutely love Brave

  • Seytoux@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    True concern from a person that just got rid of chrome (finally) and switched to brave, how is it garbage? o_o

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      2 years ago

      One thing that rings alarm bells for me is that they have a built-in adblocker, but you can enable Brave’s ads instead and get a cryptocurrency reward. Brave takes 30% cut on the ads they show this way, so they are essentially replacing the website’s monetization with their own monetization. Kind of scummy, and it being a cryptocurrency also looks grifty.

      https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ (See “what % of ad revenue”…)

      Secondly, the founder has really awful politics, but I will leave that to the reader.