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And it only took legal fraud accusation and online media coverage to resolve that. Trustworthy :)

Brave is basically chromium with and adblock build in there is nothing more or less to it for privacy.

A lot of the negative feedback comes from the fact that the company needed to have high community backslashes or potential for legal issues before they would act. They also did false advertisement.

I personally opt out if something appears sketchy. I still question the privacy or user focus and so should everyone with software that claims privacy first.

"Most malware writers target Windows as the most popular desktop OS, so it has the biggest number of viruses among all other OSes (over five thousand new viruses daily)."

I thought the article had the aim to showcase solvable issues.

Yet it seems to more often just point out the same issue (e.g. privacy),

minor issues(inconsistency in legacy apps)

and even suggest harmful practices (disable security software, never upgrade...).

The Game is the layer that very often carries the streamer, if it changes the base connection to the audience changes too. This can easy create a imbalance or conflict in interests. If the viewer can't relate to the specific game they usually leave (change of audience).

So it highly depends on your Audience. If you are a variety streamer, your audience is used to the changing environment. However this does not apply to the vast majority. If changes in audience(game) can cause up to 90+% difference its hard to quantify it as negligible factor.

There are hundreds of examples for popular streamers that tried to change games but needed to go back to keep their viewer base what makes the statement that its 90% the streamer not sustainable.

This does not make your statement wrong, but there are several other dependencies that do not allow this to be generalized.

Like Money services crypto currency services also cost money.

Here is an article about it: https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-much-does-it-cost-buy-...

Chrome, Firefox and similar on iOS are just skins on top of Safari. This is only true on iOS not on MacOS.

Brave created the currency.

Creating a virtual currency sounds like a abstraction layer that has no real benefit to me.

Services that work with real money and not over a virtual currency.

Would you mind explaining why any 3rd party coin is more painless then any popular native pay service that does not need additional steps?

There where actually 2 critiques and their practice would count as fraud in a lot of countries.

#1 Money was re-distributed if donated and not claimed -> its not frozen infinite.

#2 There was no way to opt out -> its now opt in iirc

Besides that there are other critique points.

#1 Brave is controlling the add economy. They do this by blocking adds and offering their opt in add service(and gain 30% of the add revenue)

#2 Brave is using its own crypto currency to have full control over the money flow.

What additionally lowers their credibility is that they put false advertisement on their website.

This makes me wounder whats the incent to use brave.

In worst case he still gets nothing. The system is an opt in.

Its about economics, with creating their own currency they have full control over the system and also get all the transaction/service/etc fees.

ad 2: Brave takes a 30% cut of the add income. The adds you block are targeted adds, thus they yield a higher income. Besides that there are usually service fees for converting your BAT to other currencies.

The entire service is opt in making it also not guaranteed for the content creator to receive the reward.

This should lead even in the best case to a notably worse outcome.

ad 3: https://outline.com/fJm5C3

ad 4: i explained the issue in my other response.

Paypal is the most popular billing service that is present everywhere. By not using Paypal you essentially create extra steps for the end user. This goes 2 ways, you need to purchase BAT if you want to use their reward system.

This was partly an big issues as even tech savvy streamers on YouTube had issues getting the currency. This makes the end user less likely to use this feature at all.

Criticism:

#1 Brave advertise with privacy and speed while all they do is adding adblock.

#2 Brave replaces adds with their own adds. This basically means you get the same experience but cut off the income of the content creator entirely.

#3 Brave allows you to reward 3rd party sites. This system is so nice they even got legal issues as it was assumed as fraud.

#4 BAT. Brave advertise with consumer first. The best choice for the consumer would be Paypal. If there is an incent to stay with crypto currency Bitcoin or Ethereum.

Given Brave created their own crypto currency and base every model around that they can profit from Transactions/services with the currency too on top of the share they take when you use their add platform/feature.

Given the criticism its very hard for me to understand users sympathizing with the browser.

i am confused about font rendering, this article states the exact opposite: https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/

The NT kernel is quite good.

The reality is that there are not a lot of ppl with knowlage of the kernel and linux enthusiasts often tends to have a very baised opinion towards windows.