It’s because no-one knows any alternatives.

If one wants a Chrome-based browser that isn’t Chrome, Brave is the highest-profile one by orders of magnitude. Next is a bunch of high-SEO scamware before honest projects like Vivaldi or Helium are even a whisper.

…So I don’t really blame folks for using Brave. They aren’t omniscient, and an honest effort to avoid Chrome is still a positive.

I don’t blame folks for using it.

I do blame folks for not reading up before recommending it.

I recommend(ed) it so people have a mobile browser with functional adblock. I don’t need to research further to know it does that well, which frankly is all most people will care about.

Congratulations for helping fund bigotry.

Plonk.

Ah yes, my massive endowment of $0 towards the Brave LGBT Hate Fund

don’t worry you just need to use it and it will generate money for them, keep the good (bad) work