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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
The changes include invasive DRM (github.com/brave/browser-) and forcing people to use Google Play Services (Chromium does not) as part of their business model based on replacing ads with their own and their illegal cryptocurrency (medium.com/cryptos-today/).
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Sampson
@BraveSampson
Replying to @dark_kirb @YaserBi and 3 others
Quite a bit more than that. Brave is a soft-patched fork of Chromium. We strip out all of the bits that aren't aligned with the principle of user-sovereignty, privacy, and security. We do handle our own updates as well, so as to keep users protected. More: github.com/brave/brave-br
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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
I consider it a badge of honor being repeatedly portrayed by their CEO as an ad fraud apologist: twitter.com/BrendanEich/st Never thought I'd have future encounters with them after they got pushed out of Mozilla. On that note, I'm impressed that Rust fought off class inheritance.
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BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Replying to @DanielMicay @justsee and @bcrypt
You picked a fight. "DRM" abuse, then "enforced viewing". Ad fraud is real and the $320B/year growing to $1T system uses JS nonsense against it, fruitlessly except for the CYA shakedown artists who sell tag-level antifraud. G & FB use what you mislabel "DRM". We aim to as well.
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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
twitter.com/BrendanEich/st Consider whether you want to be using a browser based on what they're trying to do with ads, their centralized cryptocurrency and DRM (thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/).
@RichFelker
raised good points about them protecting harm done by (targeted) advertising.
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BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Replying to @BrendanEich @DanielMicay and 2 others
As for "scumbags", as far as I can tell, you are a friend of ad fraudsters. Lie in that bed you made (apples to apples: you do not require pairing tests of programmatic antifraud and I do not see you tweeting at programmatic ad vendors).
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