It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:
- It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
- It has ads right out of the box.
- It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
- They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
I think you are probably assuming most people are as informed about such things, even tech literate people. As someone who tends to stick his head in the sand on anything that isn’t specific tech news I care about organically it would be pretty easy to miss all of the scummy things Brave has done over the years. Let alone the sketchy history of Eich himself.
It’s a bell curve situation.
Those who are uniformed don’t have anything against Brave and would consider it a pretty decent browser.
Those aware of the controversies hate Brave and want it to die.
Those who have taken even a moment to dig into the actual “controversies” and read beyond hyperbolic headlines don’t have anything against Brave and would consider it a pretty decent browser.
im one of those who had taken their time to check every major controversy for every mainstream browser and brave it still trash
(not happy with mozilla either but hey librewolf exists)