It's a for profit ad company making a "privacy first browser".

Thinking for literaly a second about that sentence should tell you all you need to know.

They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.

a for-profit company partially funded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, of Palantir fame. the same Palantir spying on Americans in order to allow nazis to round up immigrants and throw them into concentration camps. the same Peter Thiel that said democracy is not compatible with freedom.

Yeah it kinda mystifies me that anyone is still recommending that shitty bigotware.

In the emulation scene, RetroArch is in a similar boat if I'm understanding things correctly. Awful maintainers, but people keep recommending it and supporting it. Sucks too, because there are even fewer alternatives there.

They added referrals to links you clicked. If there is one thing a browser should do its go to the link you click without modification.

They also tried to get away with URL injection. Do not use Brave.

Brave is just a shitty browser. Did not know they were anti-freedom kind of people. Makes browser no-no.

5. it's fucking Chromium

Go use some Firefox-derivative like Librewolf or Fennec, like a sane person.

This:

https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

I use Firefox. I know it's not perfect, but it's not that bad.

And if I didn't, I'd use Vivaldi. Only reason I don't is I do prefer open source whenever possible and, well, Firefox isn't Chromium.

I think a lot of pro-Brave people are astroturfers, or heavily influenced by astroturfers. They are definitely not a first choice by any privacy advocate worth their salt.

Just mentioned how I didn't like people recommending this like last week and got "ok" as a response lol. Some people are just ignorant and don't care.

FWIW I remember a former colleague who recommended it to me and his argument was about the cryptocurrency you "earn" from it.

I asked him if he could withdraw it. I asked him if he tried. He said not yet but he would. He came back to me few days later saying something along the line that "it's not straightforward" which was a polite way to say he didn't manage yet. He worked in IT.

To be clear I'm not saying it's a scam or that one can't use the crypto "earned" from it but at least back then, few years ago, some people were just riding on the hope, or even faith, that it would amount to something yet it seemed made in such a way to just hold.

So... not a scam but not exactly empowering users IMHO.

Also, the Brave defenders in this section… holy moly.

Some folks simply cannot admit they made a questionable choice. They picked it and use it, so everyone else must be wrong.

I’ve met people like this in real life.

I don't think an average person would listen to me if I instructed them to get rid of chrome and get Firefox and install couple extensions for privacy.

So, I just ask them to download brave and tell them it's just chrome but better,  It blocks all the annoying stuff on the internet and atleast they will stop using the hell of a pacifier that chrome is and move on.