The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

https://lemmy.world/post/1510069

The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training - Lemmy.world

I never understood why anyone would use Brave, the payouts are small, the utility of the crypto is zero, and watching/seeing adverts is a nightmare. I honestly believe that blocking all advertising and sending a small monetary amount to someone providing value is a better way of supporting the people you care about.
I use Firefox over Brave simply because I have much more trust that Mozilla won’t suddenly turn into dicks.
Mozilla are dicks already lol
How so? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything negative against the company, but I’d love to know if I missed something.

The latest controversy was about Mozilla working with Meta in a project about privacy in ads.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/

Don't really know if this is a good or bad thing

Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising | The Mozilla Blog

Advertising provides critical support for the Web. We’ve been looking to apply privacy preserving advertising technology to the attribution problem, so t