Ah yes, Brave, the browser that highjacks websites to inject their own referral code, that's the right browser to use for privacy conscious people.
Overall Brave is pretty good, they build in ad-blocking by default and their own ad service is opt-in. They also have Tor and IPFS support that does not exist in Chromium, and are maintaining Manifest V2 support.
I do wish I paid for Brave but again - I don't see ads online so I don't what they do with my information anyways.
I don't wonder about Google or Microsoft.
This data will allow us to correlate telemetry IDs with download tokens and Google Analytics IDs.
I care less about privacy than I do an annoying Internet. There NO ADS with Brave Browser - like I just DO NOT SEE ADS anywhere on the Internet.
Anyone that has been using Chrome can't possibly care about privacy anyways and they can't know what I mean about ads online.
There are no ads with any browser provided that you press one button and install a browser extension that blocks them.
Brave isn't an issue regarding privacy, it's a security issue, see what I said on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42656123.
There are no ads on Brave. Not on the side of the pages, not in the middle the content scroll, not behind the content scroll, not before or after - no ads.
If you use pirate streaming sites - I rarely, rarely have a popup ad on those when I do use them.
It's not just ads, it's all about the user with Brave - most sites open in reader mode, I have to actually select to see the website itself, otherwise I just get all the content I want by default and only that content.
I have 2 different compromised gmails - both of which happened during my years using Chrome, tho one was the Experian hack I'm pretty sure, Google is not secure, I don't know why anyone would ever think that.
Seems like a user issue.
Don't opt-in and enjoy an ad free experience.
Brave was caught inserting their own referral code in signup forms on websites. This is basically exactly what Honey is doing and under fire for right now.
Brave basically does a man-in-the-middle attack on those websites. This goes MUCH further than just a privacy issue, it's a security issue.
I don't care about privacy, it doesn't exist, and I use Chrome. But I won't compromise my security by using a browser that is happy to pirate the pages I view.
I use Edge occasionally - which is far superior to Google and I don't kno how ppl deal with browsing the Internet like that, it's wildly frustrating.