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  • I was there too. Do try the freebies and see how you like it, there’s nothing to lose. Personally, that convinced me and I switched to 300 searches, then I got a new job for which I was making lots of searches and outgrew it so now I’m on the unlimited. IMO ultimate is useless unless you really like the vision or something, I just pay for a working product.














  • For starters, brave is chromium. If you care about the open web at all, you should get firefox, end of discussion. It’s also not particularly good at being private, especially considering that whenever chromium stops supporting manifestv2, brave will have to either support it themselves or use manifestv3. This is generally true of all features that enable privacy and are being eroded by google (see: cookies phaseout and ad profiles phase in, web integrity).

    If you like the idea of crypto, I suggest you watch the YouTube essay “line goes up”. If you’re still interested in crypto beyond “the idea is cool, I guess” then I still suggest you get firefox and an appropriate crypto wallet extension. Last I checked the standard was metamask but it might have changed since.

    Any youtuber you see talking about brave have been paid handsomely to tell you to use it. Do not fall for advertising, and exercise level-headed judgement.

    Is the browser good? No, not really. Any and all of its demarcating features, you can get on all others with a few extensions.

    Is it still a good idea to support it despites the ceo being a raging bigot? At this point why even do that (btw the Obama points do not stand here, because he is irrelevant to this conversation; this is textbook whataboutism).

    Similarly, you could choose to pay J.k. Rowling for her books, and support a very vocal transphobe that has stated outright that she’s using the money she makes to further her agenda, or you could buy and read better books, such as the discworld series. At this point choosing Harry Potter over a better series is choosing transphobia, and choosing brave over a better browser not made by a nutjob is choosing the nutjob’s side.