Is there a web browser based on Brave but without the crypto scam features?
Under comments, rule #1, 2, 6.
No one benefits from your comment. If you think it's a scam, put some rationale. It's a lazy comment that adds no value.
Ungoogled Chromium is probably your best bet.
I think the solution is from regulations, like GDPR in Europe. It’s not popular to say that here, but at least you can think about it.
as far as I can tell the crypto settings are the only settings that don't sync across devices which I think is a pretty annoying and deliberate dark pattern.
Vivaldi is forked from Chromium directly rather than from Brave, but the similar pro-privacy stances mean that they remove or mitigate many of the same features. E.g. both disable FLOC, both have built-in ad-blockers, and both have committed to maintaining compatibility with ad-block extensions broken by Manifest V3. For what it's worth, Vivaldi is closed-source.
Therefore not even remotely a replacement for Chrome, Brave or any browser really. Vivaldi is also some of the chattiest in a network analysis I saw, which does not bode well either.
Good UX is nice, but orthogonal to privacy, sane defaults and user freedom.
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I've heard that the cryptocurrency features are disabled by default in Brave, but I've never used it.
Yes the button is there, but you can just hide it.
Then they completely Microsofted it up. More tracking than Google, with more opting out you need to do and no way to opt out completely. Even comes with an interest free loan plugin that sometimes alters the HTML of checkout pages.
Edge is the bloated corpse of what could be the best new browser from the last 10 years. A corpse that keeps coming back to life, trying to replace your default browser every other Windows update.