The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1520219
From the article:
"I know for a fact that Wikipedia operates under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which explicitly states that if you’re going to use the data, you must give attribution. As far as search engines go, they can get away with it because linking back to a Wikipedia article on the same page as the search results is considered attribution.
But in the case of Brave, not only are they disregarding the license - they’re also charging money for the data and then giving third parties “rights” to that data."
Some information about the co-founder & CEO of Brave, Brandon Eich.
Controversial past and opinions:
Anti-vaxxer:
Eich pushed an anti-vaxx conspiracy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1538253982845399040 - If you look at the “source” it’s from a nutritionist who’s also a conspiracy nut. There are no verifiable trusted sources.
Here are some controversies surrounding Brave and their browser over the past couple of years:
Privacy related:
Brave automatically redirected searches to affiliate version of URL’s which Brave profited from:
Brave collected donations on content creators behalf without consent:
Brave leaked Tor/Onion service requests through DNS:
Sending unsolicited marketing mail to users, though Brave claim its all anonymous:
And this to some degree where they temporarily whitelisted certain Facebook and Twitter trackers without telling their users:
One more on the unsolicited marketing mail issue from r/privacy. Might be the same data, but just in case:
https://nitter.net/sebmck/status/1531740563900448769
Valeu pelos links. Mas véi, não sabia que o navegador era tão suspeito assim.
acho que a melhor opção hoje é o Firefox e se vc for MUITO desconfiado Librewolf.
Meu navegador do dia a dia é o firefox mesmo. Só que, às vezes preciso usar algo baseado no chromium e até então estava usando o brave. 🤷
o vivaldi não é chromium tb?
É um navegador bom, mas prefiro os de código aberto… Só que… entre chrome, edge, opera e vivaldi, vou de vivaldi toda vez.
eu faria o mesmo