And its still the most private consumer grade browser out there
>impersonates well known influencers to sell their products without their knowledge
That's has been fixed, it affected the minority as crypto is disabled by default on brave.
>their search results appear to be based off of google, despite claiming an independent index. all of your queries may just be going to google anyways
If you have spent maybe 5 minutes using Brave search, you would see the difference, while Google is filled with stupid SEO spam, Brave has a forums section front and center.
And matching Google's index is a very very good thing, brave search is already better than DDG and probably also bing.
People want google results with better privacy.
>the browser frequently sends telemetry to their servers
Compared to what ?
Have you compared their telemetry to any other browser ?
Their telemetry is less than Firefox for sure.
>they have consistently added more spyware to the browser unless users en masse call them out, which only happens some of the time
Like what?, what is your definition of spyware?
> I don't think for a second you are being downvoted by real hacker news users. Brave has created some sort of native marketing arm or something that drowns out any criticisms with vague positive comments like "I've been using brave search, more privacy and better search results than google!".
This is just ridiculous, Because people like a browser which has actual privacy protections by default, an independent search engine, and an alternative ad network(that is disabled by default), they are bots or paid shells!
There is no one doing effective things to protect privacy in a friendly way like brave into the browser space, call me when Mozilla dares to block Ads or create a search engine, what they do is just increase the CEO salary while firing engineers, and then go on a political rant about fake news.
All other browsers require tweaks and changes, while with brave from your first click you are more private, I can give it to my grandma and she would be more private by just using it.