Same. But on HR, many people conflate Brave’s built-in privacy with Brave’s ridiculous crypto thing. And so Brave is pooped on, laughed at, or at best ignored by many here.

To me they are completely separate and although Brave has had privacy missteps, all browser vendors have. I believe in the leadership (Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript) more than the leadership of any other browser vendor. I believe Brendan eats his own dog food.

I refuse to use them until they remove all the crypto BS. Anything extra that Brave does can also be done using chrome or firefox extensions

I tried out Brave a few years ago and soon noticed it did not completely clear history on close when configured to do so. While the history was not shown in the UI, you could see it was retained because URLs visited in previous sessions were shown in :visited style (links were purple instead of blue with default CSS. Note that this can also be queried via JS and thus allows sites to extract your browsing history).

I reported the issue at the time but they said the won't fix it since they were moving away from brave-laptop. They still had issues[1] clearing forms of local storage year later. They are not taking privacy seriously.

They also took crypto from users under the false pretense of taking payment on behalf of content creators[2].

[1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9929

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brave_(web_browse...