Please, do not use Brave.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5933715

Please, do not use Brave. - Divisions by zero

I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever. Brave was already ousted as spyware in the past [https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave] and the company has made many decisions that are questionable at best. For example, Brave made a cryptocurrency [https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/brave-ico-35-million-30-seconds-brendan-eich/] which they then added to a rewards program [https://brave.com/brave-rewards/] that is built into the browser to encourage you to enable ads that are controlled by Brave. After creating this cryptocurrency and rewards program, they started inserting affiliate codes [https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/] into URL’s. Prior to this they had faked fundraising for popular social media creators [https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-browser-no-longer-claims-to-fundraise-on-behalf-of-others-so-thats-nice/]. Do these decisions seem like ones a company that cares about their users (and by extension their privacy) would make? I’d say the answer is a very clear no. One last thing, Brave illegally promoted an eToro affiliate program [https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8793], making (presumably) thousands of dollars off their users.

I used to use Firefox but have been using Brave cause I was getting tired of having to open Edge every time there would be an addon or tool that was Chrome exclusive. So unless there’s other options for privacy focused chromium browsers I’m just gonna stick with brave.
What addon or tool that’s chromium exclusive do you mean? I never need to open any other browser than Firefox. And use Opera with privacy addons instead? Better than supporting brave at least.
Why would you ever use Opera vs Brave if you care about privacy? Brave at the end of the day is fully open source. Yes that is a huge plus even if you yourself cannot review the code.