It’s a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket, built by an incompetent misogynist asshole on a base that supports Google’s hegemony over web standards.

Ahh yes. Brave the bloated browser with very dodgy behaviour. You get a chrome fork with crypto shit, leaky VPN, ridiculously bad search, and a full blown ad engine that hijacks your notifications and tracks you in an ‘anonymized’ way. FUCK.THAT.SHIT.

There is some crypto bullfuck and AI shit you can easily opt out off, and some talk about some CEO making homophobic comments.

I feel like you know the reasons already then.

If having to install an adblocker is the biggest hurdle that means you are willing to put up with the rest of the BS, that’s your choice.

I’d rather take 40 seconds to install a adblocker on a different browser and not support shit CEOs or software that comes loaded with crypto AI shit, but that’s just me.

the ceo is the creator of javascript, some alone would say thats a big enough sin, but the man has also donated money to anti lgbtq bills before, so more than just offhand comments.

Also, in addition to what others said, Brave has been involved in some shady stuff like ad substitution/injection. See:

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

Similarly enough, Brendan Eich’s feed also contains some worrying content, in my opinion. Ranging from, again, retweeting right-wing activists, to weird Republican propaganda. He claims to be independent and not a Republican, but this does not make me any less worried about the type of ideas he follows.

But yeah, if you are a big fan of AI and crypto, and are okay with having advertisements in the user interface out of the box, are okay with past attempts to steal money from websites and collect donations towards people who wouldn’t necessarily even receive it, plus you can put up with occasional privacy mistakes… use Brave!

Why use Brave when you can use Helium or Cromite?

Helium has full (not lite) ublock origin built in, and no junk. That’s the gold standard of Adblock.

Cromite has rather obsessive antifingerprinting, making it extremely difficult to track you compared to Brave.

Basically, people use Brave because it’s got SEO; it’s the first result when people type in “Adblock browser” unfortunately.

nothing if you’re OK with companies collecting and monitizing with your data

Just use Firefox or Floorp with Ublock Origin. No crypto bullshit to be had.

Nothing. The crypto, AI and VPN is opt in not opt out. So just don’t opt in. If they really bother you. You can use brave://flags/ or Group Policy to remove it.

It’s one of the better chromium based browser.

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Can someone recommend an alternative browser for android?

I hate the Firefox ui layout on Android, I like brave for that.

I like brave browser and use it but I lost all my crypto from watching ads then they discontinued the program. I don’t know why they did that because it was a great idea.

Nothing. People complain about its crypto and AI ties, but the TOU outline both clearly and they’re easy to opt in or switch off as needed. That its native adblock works better than anything else I’ve ever used is enough for me. It’s a good browser.

People are just jerks.

nothing

that’s why Nobara and Zorin, 2 well respected linux distros, now use it as their default browser

i wish firefox had kept up with everyone else technically but they didn’t, that’s why it almost disappeared. brave is the best chromium fork and the best browser generally imo