Also, it puts Brave in a power position with those websites where they can say 'We take whatever cut we want, you can accept our terms and get what we determine your cut to be, or get nothing. Brave says they will give a cut back to the website, but only if the website asks, and since Brave is a relatively small browser, not every website asks. The entire premise of the browser, and this they are open about, is to replace the native ads on websites (Or the ad networks the website owners sign up for and try to have displayed) with Brave's own ads. Actually, that users are potentially being exposed to things that they don't know about, to me is worse than if they upfront said 'Here's what we're doing', because the latter would let the user make an informed choice, whereas the former does not. That means, I think, logically, that there is a reasonable possibility that they are testing new schemes today and that people just haven't discovered them yet, and that if they are discovered and disliked by the users, they may be stopped and new ones will be attempted.

Whether you believe it is unintentional or not is, again, up to you as a user, but the sheer number of times this stuff has happen lead me to believe they are constantly testing to see what users will notice or let them get away with, and pulling back only if it is noticed and there is a backlash.

Every time they are caught doing something like that and it becomes publicized, they say it was unintentional, and change it. This may or may not be a 'deal killer' for any given individual user, but it is something some people may want to know.īrave has been caught in various schemes such as where when you type a URL to a cryptocurrency link, the browser at one point would redirect you to a different URL that generates them money. It's not explicit, they won't tell a liberal not to use their browser, but the circumstances under which the browser came about, it's name, and it's leadership send a certain message IMO.

They have aligned themselves implicitly with conservative politics and issues.

Last question first, two browsers I like.

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