from Hacker News

List of Brave Browser Controversies

by btucker on 3/8/25, 2:03 PM with 2 comments

  • by denuoweb on 3/8/25, 2:45 PM

    It removes youtube ads and all other ads, which I care about more than all of the listed issues and hacker news number 1 issue of it having a crypto wallet. 238,000 trackers and ads blocked, 6.19 GB bandwidth saved, 3.3 hours saved on my new tab stats
  • by jsheard on 3/8/25, 2:34 PM

    They forgot the circumstances that led to Brave being founded in the first place - Brendan Eichs opposition to gay rights, and active funding of political campaigns to that end, which was why he got pushed out of Mozilla and started his own browser.