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WARNING: Do NOT use Brave under any circumstance. If you believe in Bat tokens, buy them separately. Do NOT fall for the Browser/Ad scam.

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html

>On its website, Brave claims that "Brave fights malware and prevents tracking, keeping your information safe and secure. It’s our top priority.". Yet despite this claim, Brave actually disables its tracking protections for Facebook and Twitter's scripts that allow them to track people across the web. Brave has been actively downplaying the role that JavaScript plays when tracking someone.

Brave has committed DONATION FRAUD:

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/browsers.html#brave

https://web.archive.org/web/20200131173824/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

Not only do they have sponsored backgrounds (recall Mozilla's Directory Tiles?) in their New Tab page but they were also earning big money from the included affiliate links without telling you (this is illegal and they've locked the convo as expected)! More recently, they were caught rewriting typed web addresses to add referrals for various partners. Brave Browser also has auto-updates (archive) that cannot be disabled which is extremely malicious (complete with a closed topic, of course - in a Mozilla-esque fashion). The only real reason to use Brave is their so-called Brave Rewards program with which you can earn their Basic Attention Tokens in exchange for watching ads (displayed as system notifications). Here's the catch: to pay out their BATshit tokens, you need an account on Uphold, whose Privacy Policy states this:

"To verify your identity, we collect your name, address, phone, email, and other similar information. We may also require you to provide additional Personal Data for verification purposes, including your date of birth, taxpayer or government identification number, or a copy of your government-issued identification"

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/browsers.html#brave

This browser has made waves thanks to its built-in privacy protections - such as AdBlock, HTTPS everywhere and script blocking - but in the end, they are outclassed by uMatrix. More than that - after checking them out, I can confidently say the Shields are pretty useless - the vast majority of trackers are left alone; in fact, sometimes it seems that a site can have hundreds of them, and yet none of them will be blocked by the Shields. Script blocking option simply blocks JavaScript fully - it's just NoScript revisited. Brave used to be able to install Chrome extensions only from source, but now does it the same as the other Chrome based browsers. Despite those, it not only spies on you (https://web.archive.org/web/20181012155256/https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html)) but is actively working against your privacy by whitelisting Facebook and Twitter trackers. Brave has also been soliciting donations in the name of other people without their consent!