Please, do not use Brave.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5933715

Please, do not use Brave. - Divisions by zero

I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever. Brave was already ousted as spyware in the past [https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave] and the company has made many decisions that are questionable at best. For example, Brave made a cryptocurrency [https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/brave-ico-35-million-30-seconds-brendan-eich/] which they then added to a rewards program [https://brave.com/brave-rewards/] that is built into the browser to encourage you to enable ads that are controlled by Brave. After creating this cryptocurrency and rewards program, they started inserting affiliate codes [https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/] into URL’s. Prior to this they had faked fundraising for popular social media creators [https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-browser-no-longer-claims-to-fundraise-on-behalf-of-others-so-thats-nice/]. Do these decisions seem like ones a company that cares about their users (and by extension their privacy) would make? I’d say the answer is a very clear no. One last thing, Brave illegally promoted an eToro affiliate program [https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8793], making (presumably) thousands of dollars off their users.

For the comments, can anyone give me an actual reason to use Brave over Firefox (and it’s forks)? I guess the cryptocurrency aspect is a reason, but I wouldn’t say it’s a very good one.
The thisisunsafe bypass - although I’m pretty sure it’s a Chromium feature and not specific to Brave. One of our servers has a completely fucked-up SSL cert, which I can’t fix for reasons outside my control. Firefox won’t allow me to connect, but thisisunsafe on Brave works.
It works in Chromium too.
I have no problem using firefox with my self signed cert. Just add the cert.
It’s not self-signed. I think we used to have a proper internal CA, but it’s gone along with its certs. And we can’t replace it because that particular server is held together by our desperate friday night prayers.