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[arkansawdave74]

I want my contributions to go to manjaro.org.

[Fabby]

Please have a look here:

Manjaro - Donate

[cscs]

I have extremely mixed feelings about this.
On the one hand if folks are going to use it and it ‘magically’ creates revenue for manjaro … then it doesnt make sense to leave money on the table.
On the other hand … I dont want to see manjaro associated with or in any way endorse brave.

[arkansawdave74]

I searched about it to find out why you feel that way, but I haven’t figured it out. Is it closed-source or something?

EDIT: No…it’s open-source.

@Fabby

Please have a look here:

I was hoping to contribute by bravely dismissing Brave ads though.

[SLaItEr]

Let me give you one example

Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to...

this is just one example. There more issues so that’s why

[nam1962]

I totally back your feelings:

@nam1962

https ://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/a-quick-update-on-brave/148864

The problem is that this browser is far from being clean (understatement).

Brave “protects” from external tracking as its business model comes from internal tracking !

Brave uses a tool called Wallet.
A monthly budget is defined via specific tokens based on Ethereum (BAT, for Basic Attention Token), that will be spent between visited sites.

Brave “blocks” the vast majority of ads, but takes advantage of this to position itself as a payment intermediary for the sites.
The more a site is visited by the user, the more it pays on the user’s wallet.
The number of visits and the time spent is taken into account by a specific algorithm.

Blatantly it’s parasitism, in addition to clearly tracking the user.

It is interesting to go to their site to see the “advertisers” section. It gives a form that the “brave” advertisers must fill out to have the right to pass their ads to users …