1º Injecting affiliate codes into users url's without consent:
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/
2º Scamming people into thinking they are giving donations to content creatos:
Brave is always behind in security patches to Chrome by design, Google first need to push the patch to Chromium, Brave need to grab that patch and adapt it to Brave.
Brave adds new potentially security issues with all the modificatios and code they add to it.
It's suspect to me that every thread that mentions Brave attracts such bizarre vitriol, with people who keep rehashing old arguments (which are off-topic and never with any actual context so people can make up their own minds). Haven't
It should be noted that the person behind privacytests.org is a current Brave employee. That said, I haven't seen any signs of compromise yet; it makes sense that privacy-focused developers end up at privacy-focused companies.
However, you can have a good privacy record for protecting users from third parties and still make bad decisions. Not informing users about what websites do or do not take part in the crypto collection programme from the start was a bad decision IMO. Altering URLs to insert referrer codes is also a bad idea. This doesn't mean Brave doesn't try to protect your privacy, but it's still quite user hostile in my opinion.
> This website and the browser privacy tests are an independent project by me, Arthur Edelstein. I have developed this project on my own time and on my own initiative. Several months after first publishing the website, I became an employee of Brave, where I contribute to Brave's browser privacy engineering efforts.
Don't ever link such biased website shilling for Brave.
1º Injecting affiliate codes into users url's without consent:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190606100032/https://twitter.c...Brave is always behind in security patches to Chrome by design, Google first need to push the patch to Chromium, Brave need to grab that patch and adapt it to Brave.
Brave adds new potentially security issues with all the modificatios and code they add to it.