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The Brave browser: Some cheery reading from Cambridge Analytics on the Brave browser, and on other “privacy-first” products and services: “Brendan Eich’s 2015 promise was seductive in its simplicity: a browser that blocks trackers, ads, and the entire apparatus of surveillance capitalism. Seven years later, Brave has attracted 60 million monthly active users with that vision. What those users largely don’t understand is that Brave replaced Google’s tracking with its own.” https://cambridgeanalytica.org/guides/the-privacy-illusion-how-brave-browser-built-its-own-surveillance-machine-50302/ Unrelated to the ad tracking, some years ago Brave was collecting (Brave cryptocurrency) donations on behalf of others, without prior permission or even knowledge of those it claimed to be collecting the donations for: https://www.theblock.co/article/5839/brave-browser-is-collecting-donations-on-your-behalf-did-you-know There was the affiliate-link interception scheme implemented by Brave, too. https://factually.co/fact-checks/technology/brave-2020-affiliate-link-practice-explained-company-response-eb778c Searches will find other privacy and policy discussions involving Brave. This whole Google and the Wannabes — great band name, that — is headed in the entirely wrong direction for my own privacy preferences, though. #privacy