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Re:Brave, the false sensation of privacy by mikro2nd on Friday June 18, 2021 @10:36AM (#27550792)
So... I dunno... Just ignore the whole BAT/Rewards nonsense? I use none of that shit, though I do use Brave for a (very) few things that require a Chrome-like browser (i.e. Won't work in Firefox with my battery of plugins). I don't regard it primarily as a high-privacy tool (FF is better at that, though far from perfect) but it's better than using Chrome on non-Goog sites.

Ah, the world has become a strange place. I currently use no less than 5 different browsers for different contexts, but mainly Chrome for Goog properties on the seldom occasion I have to go there, FF for almost everything else. Then the corner cases...

Re:Brave, the false sensation of privacy by smaryjerry on Friday June 18, 2021 @11:00AM (#27551065)
Isn’t this only an issue if you actually want to cash out your $2 or whatever. The bigger benefit of Brave is that you can contribute money to websites or content creators that your prefer. This is like the “old” internet where ads didn’t care what content they were shown next to, giving much more freedom of expression on the net. Say YouTube thought your video joking about COVID meant they thought you deserved to demonetize your whole channel, we’ll now brave donations still allows you to make some sort of ad profit. That actually ads up for people from pennies from millions of people together. Cashing out for a few dollars a year is not really the intent of the system.
Re:Brave, the false sensation of privacy by skinnymuch on Friday June 18, 2021 @09:56PM (#27557077)
You can’t cash $2. There’s a 25 BAT minimum