Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by boogies on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:10PM
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Fair enough, I’ve edited my comment (I haven’t used Brave besides ~2 hours of trial months ago — I won’t use any Chromium browser more than that when I can help it — but that’s no excuse to leave misinformation up). Still, those promotions are more in line with the ones that Firefox is filled with (Pocket, Google and Amazon search, etc.), not really the same type of thing as Google’s banners and youtube autoplay videos, and AIUI they only track the referral source (Brave) not the individual user (a defining distinction IMO).
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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by soundnote on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:00PM
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Brave has at least two kinds of ads at present: Sponsored new tab page backgrounds, and user-controlled mechanism that delivers ads as toaster popups. The sponsored backgrounds are on by default, the popups are not. The toaster popups have a revenue share thing where Brave gives a cut of its ad profits to users so they can use Brave's tipping service to benefit creators.
Brave Talk and Brave News are ad-funded as well but I haven't tried them so it's hard to say.