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Comment by kusuriya | Hacker News Reader

Im conflicted, I like the general idea behind brave, their vertical tabs look good, but the browser deeply integrates this crypto grift and robs sites I visit and have their ads allowed of their revenue then wants them to "opt-in" to their grift to get the money they stole.

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You can literally disable it in the welcome screen when you first install.

They're disabled by default. It's better to try it out than to read opinions on the internet about the browser and form a viewpoint, I say this because I too have been guilty of the same.

IIRC, the background processes for these ad and crypto services still run in the background even when you disable them. I haven't checked the browser in a long while. But it's easily verifiable by opening the brave task manager.

Quick Google result: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5429

No that's not the case. I just checked.

The GitHub issues that you linked also are closed. I followed the duplicates and they're all closed with comments mentioning that it's been fixed.

I checked to. On my computer, with a fresh install, i have to kill Utility: Bat Ledger Service from the brave task manager every time the browser is started. Thankfully it stays closed.

The ads and crypto stuff are also not exactly as simple to opt out as "literally disable it in the welcome screen when you first install" as one commenter enthusiastically mentioned.

Crypto stuff is definitely disabled, even if you skip the welcome screen. Actually, I don't think they even ask you to enable it on the welcome screen either.

All of it is definitely opt-in. Even Brave Rewards are disabled by default.

Do you still have an old profile from a previous install?

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