is this the one that requires you to log in? i tried one that looks just like that and i loved the design but forced sign-in is a deal breaker for me. how private can it be if it demands to know who i am?

I have brave on Ios and if I'm correct it's just using Apple's safari webkit anyways. It's been a few years since I compared browsers but back then it was the least shit, including firefox and firefox private.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#History might be worth a read

I only use palemoon because it uses the best version of Firefox.

i thlammed my penith in the car door

Yeah, I don't do web stuff, but I use the browser every day for all the microsoft stuff my employer uses and it's 99% LibreWolf and then 1% switching to Firefox ESR that cane preinstalled on debian.

If something didn't work at that point, I'd probably fire up my Windows VM I use for testing before I'd install even chromium. I've installed it before but there's just no need now.

Brave on GrapheneOS works great. Worth a download.

keep using that

that's allowed!

They do a ton of sketchy shit. I was skeptical, but this article convinced me.

If you need to use a Chromium browser, there are a shit-ton that aren't Brave. I use Ungoogled Chromium.

Aside from the homophobia, Brave also runs an ad network so I’m skeptical about their privacy claims.

Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google's dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.

Brendan Eich. Specifically his stance against same sex marriage. He was pressured to resign from Mozilla, which he cofounded, due to his support of California's prop 8. Then he founded Brave. The Brave browser also has some annoying crypto and AI features turned on by default. I think it's a perfectly fine piece of software. I use it as a second browser.

Their very shady history + their very bigoted owner + current shady tactics

Edit: and on top of that it's Chromium based

Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google's dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.

i'm not against it, i just don't believe it exists

Anti-Chromium gang

Brave was made by a former Mozilla employee who got fired for being a massive asshole. He still is a massive asshole and as a longtime Firefox and now Librewolf user, I don't see any ads either.