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Isn't brave supposed to be "private"?
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You can disable this in the settings. Nobara ships with Brave now but with all of the telemetry and crypto BS turned off out of the box.
It's a shame this is necessary, to be honest. It's the same argument with Windows users: "you can just run a debloater and fiddle with the registry to disable tracking". It shouldn't be needed in the first place.
Yeah, Zorin did this recently too. They made some good arguments on why Mozilla's trustworthiness has nosedived these past few years, but awkwardly centered on a ToS change that didn't really amount to much.
They didn't make a case for why Brave is more trustworthy, though.. (and I'm not sure one can)
I don't think you can say the same as MS plays shitty cat and mouse games and is constantly patching the workarounds. And the changes required are much more involved than just toggling a switch. And Brave won't randomly toggle it back on after an update or just blatantly ignore it altogether.