Its possible he benefits from the BAT system. BAT is Brave Attention Token, a form of crypto exclusive and locked into Brave. Its like a little crypto mining scam.
Brave also has a known history of whitelisting Facebook and Twitter trackers, and has a crippled adblocker that does not work on Brave’s “acceptable” advertisements.
Do it like this, Firefox (or fork) as main browser, and Ungoogled Chromium as secondary browser in case of 0.01% websites that do not work with Firefox.
Why not use Brave? I have a friend who’s been trying to get me to switch from Firefox to Brave for forever.
Its possible he benefits from the BAT system. BAT is Brave Attention Token, a form of crypto exclusive and locked into Brave. Its like a little crypto mining scam.
Brave Browser is funded by DoD: https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/fe34ls/exclusive_brave_browser_funded_by_dod_contractor/
Brave traffic detected with Cryptocompare despite BAT rewards disabled: https://unddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/gr8nue/ (removeddit no longer works, use unddit)
Brave also has a known history of whitelisting Facebook and Twitter trackers, and has a crippled adblocker that does not work on Brave’s “acceptable” advertisements.
Brave Browser hardcoded their crypto partner Binance referral links (https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/1269201480105578496) alongwith Ledger and soon-to-be-compromised Coinbase (https://decrypt.co/31461/coinbase-wants-to-identify-bitcoin-users-for-dea-irs)
Also some new stuff you might want to check.
https://sick.codes/sick-2021-109/
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/13527
Yikes I wish I knew all of this, now I gotta change browsers and move all my bookmarks again 🙄
Do it like this, Firefox (or fork) as main browser, and Ungoogled Chromium as secondary browser in case of 0.01% websites that do not work with Firefox.
Thanks for the detailed answer! I’ll tell my friend to get off Brave.