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Just before all the Brave haters on this sub appear telling you Brave is crypto scam etc. - this is all based on lack of research and just blindly following headlines. You can turn off all the crypto features, Brave won’t force you to jump onto crypto train once you download the browser. They had some unfortunate accident of using affiliate links based on the page you’ve been visiting, but they quickly abandoned the idea. The way I see it is they want to somehow make money out of this as developing a browser is not a cheap undertaking. And yes, Brave is an ad company. But they’re trying to do all this in privacy-preserving way, somehow attempting to change how the ad business currently works on the web. However if you don’t wish to get any ads you can opt out (or just never opt in) of all this and enjoy good browser with good privacy defaults and built in adblocker. Brave is based on chromium though. Whether you wish to support chromium dominance on the web is your personal preference.
"You can turn off X" is not a good enough excuse.
Once upon a time, I used to daily Edge when it was a pretty decent browser. But once it was handed over to the Bing team who started jerry-rigging garbage into it that was it for me. You could also "turn a lot of it off", but that doesn't help when new less-than-ideal features are introduced or setting it up on a new PC.
Brave Rewards are turned off by default.
@mercan @ducky but the advertisements are not (new tab page)
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