Comment by Nextlevelpepega | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Nextlevelpepega | Hacker News Reader

Nextlevelpepega

I don't know how people can use the Brave browser:

Scandals:

  1º First scandal.
     Source: https://archive.ph/cAGpe

  2º Scamming people into thinking they are giving donations to content creators.
     Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190606100032/https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1076160882873380870

  3º Injecting affiliate codes into url's without user consent.
     Source: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/

Extra sources: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

From a security standpoint, Brave is most of the time at least 1 to 3 days behind security patches from chromium plus they add a new superfice of security issues with all the changes they do to it, with chromium at least I know they are the first to patch things due to it coming from Google.

I welcome competition but I just can't see what the Brave browser brings to the table.

This is a subset of what they bring to the table: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

I personally use either Safari or Brave (for chrome extensions and debugging) exclusively

I don't remember hearing about #2 at the time, but that's incredibly disappointing.

I don't really get the love for Brave. It always strikes me as being a completely opportunistic company (brave tokens were are particular turnoff).

There's some considerable context missing here. When Brave held its token sale in 2017, we allocated 300M tokens to the User Growth Pool. Shortly thereafter we began staking Brave users with tokens to identify creators for whom they would like to offer support. Brave's UI showed a check-mark for verified creators, and nothing for unverified creators (we naively followed the Twitter model).

Some users took the BAT grant they received from Brave, and attempted to tip it to unverified creators (which landed those tokens in an omnibus settlement wallet where it could later be claimed, similar to the PayPal model of sending money).

The UI/UX of this feature and process caused a great deal of confusion towards the end of 2018, leading to monumental feedback from several content creators, including Tom Scott of YouTube. Tom's insights gave us the direction we needed to overhaul the Rewards (called 'Payments' at the time) system in major ways.

Ultimately, Tom approved of the changes. But note, there was clearly no scam involved. Additional details are provided in our 2018 blog post at https://brave.com/rewards-update/. I hope this helps!

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