Brave Browser’s Ad Replacement System: Vulture in Lion’s Clothing?
Editor’s note: At the request of the Brave team, Bitcoinist will be conducting an interview with the company’s CEO so he can make his case for Brave’s data collection practices. We will publish this interview in full on Bitcoinist.net. Editor’s note (3/13/2016 3:39 PM EST): The Brave CEO did not agree to an interview with Bitcoinist. Instead, an interview between Bitcoinist and “someone from Brave” was discussed. We would like to apologize to our readers for this miscommunication. Brave has since declined any interview with us. Instead, they have opted to leave their input in the comments....
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