It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
  • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Nowhere near. I use it at work, but Brave still outshines it. Most people haven’t tried Brave because of the icky factor of the CEO, fair enough, but then they don’t know it just works without fuss and that’s why people use it. And Android, as I mentioned