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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

stackdiary.com The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

I'm fairly certain that I was not the only person in the world who thought to himself, "Did they just yoink the entire Internet and bundle it together

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Wasn't Brave always known to be shady in one way or the other? Which is why I never get why people say "remove Chrome get Brave" in 2023.
Just lovely, when you think you found a browser that works decently and cares about privacy...
The more surprising part of this article is that enough people use Brave to create enough of a dataset to train AI.

I have a feeling that in a future AI society, one trained on Brave data would be considered special needs.
The browser with fuckloads of baked-in crypto was doing shady shit? No way!

No idea why no one made a fork that just follows the original basically but removes all the “BAT” crypto, web3, all that dogshit, bullshit, annoying-ass crypto bro shit.
I just switch back to good old firefox.
ITT: Cryptobros and apologists finding new and creative ways to justify the behaviour of a company, the head of which was ousted from his last position because of crude political views, i.e. not granting people basic rights.
How is this related to privacy? The whole thing is about copyright infringement…
This article is about brave search not the browser.
I got a bad feeling about that app when i tried it. Something about it didn't "feel" right. Went crawling right back to firefox after.
I am not an expert and I am sincerely asking, but everyone who is recommending Firefox, how do you feel about DuckDuckGo?
This is important information but it really should be compared to google chrome, safari, edge, and Firefox default settings, which are all bad for privacy, and when combined, make up 99% of browsers.

This article is written like everyone already knows how to install and use librewolf.
As someone who swapped to chrome > chromium > ungoogled-chromium > brave > firefox > librefox and then back to brave....? Idk, it feels like theres no such thing as a "perfect browser" and that all browsers has a some sort of "anti-consumerism" built-in that we are (still) not aware about.
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Probably all browsers spy in some way.

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