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People should stay far away from Brave.
Brandon Eich’s controversial past and opinions:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536
Anti-vaxxer and far-right conspiracies:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html
https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1337496169690230784
https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/khmbvl/do_you_feel_that_brendan_should_step_back_from/
https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1538253982845399040
Privacy related:
https://www.lifewire.com/brave-browser-falls-short-of-its-promises-of-privacy-5206799
Brave automatically redirected searches to affiliated versions which they profited from:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology
Brave collected donations on content creators behalf without consent:
Brave leaked Tor/Onion service requests through DNS:
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/lndfms/more_in_comments_brave_browser_leaks_your_tor/
Brave sent unsolicited marketing mail to users, though they claimed it was anonymous:
https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1531740563900448769
Brave temporarily whitelisted certain Facebook and Twitter trackers without telling users:
Firefox for personal. Chrome for work.