This doesn’t bode well for Brave’s self professed mission [0].
Maintaining a Chrome fork is already difficult enough on its own, especially with the number of directions where Brave wants to diverge.
Maintaining a Chrome fork is already difficult enough on its own, especially with the number of directions where Brave wants to diverge.
Effectively ever since IE broke Netscape's back, every single major web browser has been funded either off the back of other business units (IE, Chrome, Safari), or funded by search engine deals. No customer has actually had to really contemplate 'what is the value of a browser' in like 25 years. No one actually has a sense of how valuable a browser actually is (except through the perverse metric of how many ads can you serve to the user via default search...).
I think it's telling that all of Brave's new revenue streams aren't actually -from- their self-professed mission.
In a way they were ahead of the curve, considering how popular ad-based models with optional removal purchases are these days.
The only decent browser is Chrome, and the ad blockers don't work anymore.
If you need to test in a lot of browsers it's not a terrible idea as you can run both desktop and module browsers.