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Hey brave, get ride of crypto stuff and you’ll get users back You guy are actually building a good browser

• sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
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  • mamidon 3y ago
    Everyone has to earn a living, not just people who have the same values as you.
    • fwip 3y ago
      What does this comment mean? Just because he "has to" earn a living, doesn't mean people have to want to give him money.
  • Phiwise_ 3y ago
    A CEO that sweetened the deal would set about turning brave into chrome and google search. You cannot both castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
    • smoldesu 3y ago
      > You cannot both castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. You cannot mean to imply that Brave is worthless without Eich.
  • slig 3y ago
    Hopefully they too can find a lawyer to be a CEO of a tech company.
• louthy 3y ago
  It’s pretty simple to turn all that off. It’s bloat, for sure, but can be made invisible. If they could just fix the back-button on Brave iOS so it doesn’t occasionally pick a completely different tab, I’ll be happy.
  • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    > simple to turn all that off Technically, in the browser, yes. Culturally, at the organization level, no.
• iteratethis 3y ago
  I don't understand why this complaint survives, it seems a myth at this point. Open a fresh install of Brave. No crypto things are happening. There's one button inviting you to enable it, which you can dismiss with 2 clicks. It will never ask again.
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  • jeroenhd 3y ago
    Every time I disable a Brave Rewards setting, a new one seems to pop up. It's in the address bar, it's on the startup page, it's in the sidebar quick menu, it's in another section of the startup page, it's in the tab bar when I open the browser settings, the crypto stuff is everywhere. I wish they'd auto hide all that crap for you after you click "not interested in cryptocurrency stuff".
• alisonatwork 3y ago
  Just use Cromite. Brave already proved they can't be trusted.
  • cunningfatalist 3y ago
    May I ask why you think so?
    • nilsherzig 3y ago
      I uninstalled brave as the story about injection affiliate links broke: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
      • BrendanEich 3y ago
        See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088549.
        • nilsherzig 3y ago
          Sorry I don't really understand your comment (English isn't my native language). So there was / is a legitimate data structure which stores these affiliate links and someone accidentally used it as a source for the url auto completion? I assume the legitimate reason to store affiliate links, are things like the widgets on the "new tab" page? If that really was an honest mistake I'm sorry for spreading stories like this, without checking them first in more detail.
          • jonathansampson 3y ago
            Brave published a blog post regarding this feature/news; you can read more (as well as see images of the feature in action) at https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/ https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/. I hope this helps!
• deleted 3y ago
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