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:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. 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.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
  • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Yeah exactly, Brave is for people who are scared of installing extensions but clicking a big install button on a site that runs an executable is perfectly fine

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      This makes me think that the people who install brave, are the people who, 15-20 years ago, would have a IE install that was half toolbars.

      God…remember all the scammy toolbars for IE? and how they could take up half the damn screen on some peoples machines?

    • ForgottenUsername@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Well I’d argue that with the changes to Manifest, Brave is actually one of your stronger options if chrome is a must have.

      If you don’t need chrome, Firefox (or a fork) with ublock is enough for most.