If the allegations are true, Brave has found a remarkably efficient business model: block the publisher’s ads, bypass its paywall, scrape its articles, then sell the results to AI companies. All while marketing itself as the browser that protects people from shady internet practices.
Brave’s always been shady.
Sounds about right, given that its previous business model was MITMing ads in order to extort website owners to buy its crypto.
Glad I decided to drop them and go with Duck Duck Go instead six months or so ago. Heard some shitty things about the owners of Brave…
Sure. Let media outlets owned by the rich fight tech companies owned by other rich people. Doubt it changes anything though.
I don’t love brave… it’s kinda wierd…
How do Brave Bypasses NYT’s paywall? In the past I’ve managed that with an extension, not anymore .
you can use archivetoday and it will archive it and load it without the paywall iirc. though I haven’t been able to do that in a while since they have the Google QR captcha now.
I wonder how the Washington Post feels about it?
