Brave's completely open source. [1] I'm not using this as a 'go look at their source code' type meme, because obviously you won't. It's absolutely massive and one man auditing the code alone, just to see if he might want to use the browser, is absurd. But at the same time Brave attracts higher information users that are going to be disproportionately more interested in security, privacy, and so on. And there are a lot of people regularly poking through the source code, as well as contributing to improvements in it.

So I think the answer to question is - absolutely nothing. The very few missteps Brave has made get broadcast from the ends of the world. The fact the biggest thing people can find to complain about it is some crypto stuff, which is opt-in and easily completely disabled, or an autocomplete tagging a referrer - that was patched out in less than 24 hours, is strongly indicative of the quality and integrity of the browser.

[1] - https://github.com/brave/

If you can agree that moving away from a purely ad-supported internet is a good thing, then micro-payments are a strong alternative, and internet-native money at the protocol level is a technically appropriate solution.

Can you imagine google chrome bringing Tor integration into their browser? Why not?

Which crypto judgment are you seeing that’s so damning?

Their operating budget, probably.

FF is pretty crap these days (as a lifelong FF fanboy). I'd hesitate to use it except for HN where its low speed and security are part of the experience.

At least use Chromium.

Agree, my IQ is too low to catch up with amount of changes to omnibar look, addition of cool color schemes or preinstalled extensions to advertise a TV show