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Don’t trust brave, never will.

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well their CEO is a right wing nazi so no thanks.

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And they just re-skin Chrome, so you are helping Google own the internet anyway. Use Firefox or Safari.

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the post is about the search engine not the browser

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Nope. Nope. And nope. Any company tied to crypto I will not trust.

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I re-downloaded Brave the other day, and I was disappointed to recall how bloated it feels. The attention tokens, crypto wallet, in-house search engine, trialware VPN, etc.—it’s for someone, but not me…

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Wait why would the search engine be the bloat part?

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Brave is trying to create an ecosystem where you use the browser to access their many “free” services. Once they run out of venture capital money and they’ve got people hooked, it’s a slippery slope. Just my two cents though. I never loved Brave’s corporate personality to begin with.

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That’s fair. I feel like bloat would be the wrong term to use in regards to a search engine though 😅

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“attention tokens,” wow that sounds bad in and of itself

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I’m very confused on how they were one of the first more well known companies to fully launch their own search engine. I would have expected Mozilla, Apple, or Facebook to do so first. Hopefully Proton launched one soon (or buys and open sources Kagi)

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