[eclecticfrank]

Brave wants to replace "bad" ads from third parties with their own "good" ads.[1]

They have also in the past been caught adding their own referral codes to crypto transaction URLs pasted into their browser. [2]

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-earn-and-use-cryptocurre... [2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-...

[dartharva]

You can disable Brave Shields and just use classic uBO (which Brave supports) instead.

[esskay]

I'm not sure trying to bad mouth it by bringing up a 5+ year old long fixed thing is the right way to go about making a point. Heck if we're doing that theres vastly more "wrong" over at Mozilla and Google to complain about in that timeframe.

Aa of right now Brave has two "features" that you can disable - the crypto thing and a vpn advert. Once those are off, they are off. You don't see them anymore, they aren't sitting in the background running, and they aren't calling home.

It's no different to Mozilla's constant and blatant attempts to reactivate telemetry data in Firefox updates despite opting out - I'd argue that's a bigger offence.

[midnitewarrior]

Yeah, this seems a bit disingenuous given the nature of, and the time since that issue existed.

I did their ads, I made hundreds of dollars leaving them on in the early days. I value my attention more so I've shut them off.