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Brave is the worst of all worlds in the modern browser space. I genuinely believe that it doesn't get much better than LibreWolf and uBlock if you value privacy and don't want to give in to Google - you probably don't need all of the stuff Brave is trying to sell to you.

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Does LibreWolf take the "Microsoft approach" like Firefox now does and abruptly force you to close the browser to complete an update, even if you are in the middle of a browsing session? I had other issues like memory leaks/bloat, but that was the last straw that pushed me away from Firefox.

I have zero problems with Brave; I don't use the crypto bit (not for me) and I still use uBlock Origin with it as Brave + uBO seems to do the best job at blocking garbage that I've seen so far.

I've been using it for a couple of years and I'm quite happy with it. What I like:

- In-browser adblocking, which is not dependent on the changes in extension API or extension policies.

- Reader view, which is comparable to that in Safari.

- Sidepanel with tabs.

I also liked the idea of distributing the payment to the websites that I'm visiting, and I'm sad that this didn't pan out.

Tangentially, I also like Brave Search, which is comparable to Google in quality, doesn't have ads and has nice AI summarization.

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