I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever.
Brave was already ousted as spyware in the past and the company has made many decisions that are questionable at best. For example, Brave made a cryptocurrency which they then added to a rewards program that is built into the browser to encourage you to enable ads that are controlled by Brave.
After creating this cryptocurrency and rewards program, they started inserting affiliate codes into URL’s. Prior to this they had faked fundraising for popular social media creators.
Do these decisions seem like ones a company that cares about their users (and by extension their privacy) would make? I’d say the answer is a very clear no.
One last thing, Brave illegally promoted an eToro affiliate program, making (presumably) thousands of dollars off their users.
uBlock Origin does basically the same thing Brave’s adblock does only better and more customizable.
unlock Origin is a huge performance hog on my system, whereas Brave runs as fast as Chrome. Thank you for the heads up, but for people in the middle ground of “I know what ads are and I want them blocked, and when I see a Brave ad I’ll ignore it”, I think Brave is fine
Unlikely mate. Millions use it. Its pretty lightweight.