Ask HN: Is Brave an ok alternative?
Turning off the "crypto-crap" can be done quite easily (you literally right click on the BAT icon and it is gone) and the new tab ads are removed again with a couple of clicks. I've found it also runs much better than Firefox on older hardware.
The first and last time I tried Brave, it was injecting links (with a pretty golden picture) in each post of reddit (and I'm not talking about changing the referrals). To turn that off I had to look deep into the settings.
Brave really does have a bunch of very nice features, I particularly enjoyed using them on my phone to download videos from youtube for online listening. Built-in adblocking is very enjoyable too.
Do note that there had been several smaller controversies, including one that 'Honey' got recently into hot water for, which was replacing affiliate links with their own. There is currently an on-going lawsuit with Honey for this.
In honesty, look at the controversies page on wikipedia and decide for yourself, I don't think there is a good or a bad choice here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...
It has a nice sync feature so my bookmarks / extensions are sync'd. The developer tools are exactly the same as Chromes.
It has some controversies in the past, but generally it has been ok IMO.