If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I mean, it’s even listed on the reputable PrivacyTools website. Why am I telling you to steer clear of this browser, then?

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      17 days ago

      Every time I mention that brave is a bad choice that is basically the response I get.

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      17 days ago

      Every time someone uses Brave, I know I can ignore their opinion. They’re either a useful moron who is too dumb to look around them, or they support every single one of these things.

      It’s no wonder why 4chan’s /g/ loves Brave.

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      15 days ago

      Might be nicer if they just didn’t care.

      Check the comment section for the video version of this article by Niccolò, or the comment section of the post on r/browsers, or the replies whenever these issues are mentioned on Twitter, and so on, and you’ll find a bunch of brave people saying stuff like:

      you unintentionally just made me like brave over firefox. now i can switch to a chromium based browser and not even feel bad about it

      Yes i am installing Brave after this advertisment!

      Thanks to this video I deleted Brave then redownloaded it

      These were taken directly from the video. They’re on the mild side. Throw in also some “stop inserting politics (other than mine) into tech” comments, and a few homophobes not even trying to hide it. Rather than not caring, many of them like it a lot, especially the right-wing politics.

      I don’t think every Brave user is a cunt, but fucking hell, are loud cunts seemingly attracted to Brave.

      To folks bothered by this: know that the lead developer of Ladybird is a big fan of Brendan Eich.