When people recommend Brave browser.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40018890

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It’s a for profit ad company making a “privacy first browser”.

Thinking for literaly a second about that sentence should tell you all you need to know.

you can do privacy friendly ads

This is true. Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics used to run and maintain a good sort of ad service called Project Wonderful, that catered to webcomics and blogs and didn’t track users. Sadly he shut it down in 2018.

Currently I know of Comicad Network that’s trying a similar kind of thing.

Project Wonderful - Wikipedia

Did it gettoo hard to run or what?