These ads are not tracking scripts but rather system notifications. Yes, Brave needs to fetch a non-personalized list of ads in order for Brave Rewards to work, if they don’t want to update the browser daily. Also, this enhances the security of the browser, and can be disabled in the settings. Not a spy connection.īrave proxies this connection to Google (contrary to FF, might I add), so Google remains unaware of your browser installation. This fetches news articles for Brave’s news feed for every user in the same way and nothing gets send in return. Although telemetry is superfluous, it is not a spy connection. This only collects technical data, so no personally identifiable information, and it takes 2 clicks to disable in the settings (contrary to FF’s like 30 settings to make sure it’s really disabled). ![]() Also necessary for ongoing security patches, which is why all browsers do it. Only submits your browser version and OS to Brave’s servers, so that the correct update file can be fetched. Known Firefox fanboy posts an article that allegedly shows that Brave is spyware, but is there any meat on the bone? Let’s see what he as to criticize about Brave, shall we?
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