And then you have Chrome sending data directly to Google, the auto logins, dark patterns, etc, which you don't get with Brave or Vivaldi.
I was looking at their media kit[0]. They link to a presentation[1] which mentions that the ads are sent to the browser and then the browser itself picks the ones that should be shown to the user.
If this is really the case, then the browser isn't sending that information to the ad server.
Yeah, maybe. I was just pointing out that it doesn't send the user's preferences to a server.
Exactly, "seems". Once again, good marketing from the Brave team. Heck, they even sponsored chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura on his Twitch stream.
It's not utopian, but works from a capitalist's standpoint. And a lot of real users like it!
I guess my point is that not all tracking or ads are the same. You can track clicks and views of a banner without profiling users across multiple sites and apps, learn all you can, and then let advertisers target them.