As usual in the comments, programming.dev chuds care a whole lot about performatively not caring and get enraged at the thought of other people caring, thus the advocacy for Brave Browser entirely on the basis of "melting snowflakes" the way thumbheads roll coal because they want to "trigger" people that would prefer an inhabitable environment.
Even better is the money-man early backer of Brave was Peter Theil. Peter Theil is the reactionary alt-right billionaire who founded the CIA In-Q-Tel backed Palantir, a company infamous for selling big-brother-as-a-service to the US nat-sec apparatus. I don't trust anything he has his fingers in, especially if it is claiming to be selling you privacy while browsing the Internet. It's just like how Elon Musk, another billionaire who like Theil was raised apartheid South Africa, claims to be promoting freedom and privacy by buying Twiter.
If you care about privacy and an open web, stick with Mozilla Firefox and avoid honeypots like Brave.
Programming.dev chuds in the Lemmy federation want to "melt snowflakes" a lot more than they actually care about privacy and they're fine with walled gardens on the internet if they think they will have the keys to them.
People in the comments defending Brave or saying the article is shitty: climate change denier, edgy sexist username haver, guy, anticommunist troll on Lemmygrad, person unironically talking about snowflakes and doing the ”libs triggered” bit
Sure isn't changing my preconception of Brave being a chud browser.
He served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer before he was appointed chief executive officer, but resigned shortly after his appointment due to pressure over his firm opposition to same-sex marriage. He subsequently became the CEO of Brave Software.
"You are currently clicking the link for a browser that will try to sell you a cryptocurrency every 15 minutes. Why?"
"From the look of this UI and logo, the crypto grfiting was priority number one."
"He's not kidding about the visuals."
"Taking emergency action."
You come to sitting in your computer chair, facing away from your desk to look out the window. You can't remember what you sat down to do, but you get the sense it wasn't important.
Mozilla wants to censor and cancel people, harder. And Google is the king of censorship.
I'm going to stick with Brave.
It takes a special level of galaxy-brained techbro computer toucher to be fine with spyware and malware and insidious social manipulation as long as they can say the n-word on the internet.
Just use Firefox with ublock origin. Maybe get a VPN if you're serious about anonymous browsing. There's rapidly diminishing returns in obsessing over privacy tools compared to changing your browsing habits.