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I used brave for a while, I got 10$ I also got 10$ from Honey, apparently only scams give me anything

Same reason they used Chrome. “What else is there?”

Software discoverability is kind of bad these days, and getting worse.

Any alternative on iOS and android? Can't find any good one.. And I'm a GOS user very privacy aware but honestly brave is the only browser I know that blocks ads

I think the only real solution to protect ourselves is to stop using any browsers.

Chromium based browsers have no cookie isolation like FF with multi account containers. They recommend Profiles but a separate window eats way more RAM and the experience is just much worse. I use Zen

Personally as long as I'm not contributing to their wealth in some way I don't think it really matters what the CEO of the company that makes a product does. I'm mostly just going to use the best product for me. Now there is an argument that simply by using it I'm contributing to their usage numbers which helps them, and that's definitely true for social media platforms because of the network effect (which is why I stay off of the corporate ones), but it's less true of other products. In fact if i use an ad-supported product but block the ads I'm likely costing them more than I am a benefit.

It's also a spectrum rather than black and white: every medium or larger tech company, especially if american due to the deregulated and in many cases openly corrupt capitalism, is going to do evil things for profit and be both run and owned by evil people/corporations. But their level of danger to global society varies. Musk is extremely dangerous because of his active campaign to bring fascism and nationalism to power in Europe, which is why x.com is blocked in my house at a DNS level. Other billionaires are dangerous too but they're not all equal.

That said, other browsers should improve their ad blocking. Can't let Brave win.

I used to use brave when I just started becoming privacy aware. Here are the reasons why:

• it's chromium based. I loved the way chromium based browsers looked, especially when compared to Firefox. They had a comforting feel to them, whereas Firefox had a very "office-ey" feel to it.
• I wasn't aware of the issues of chromium dominating the market share that it does and how monopolization in this manner can be harmful.
• I wasn't aware of the people behind brave.
• I had seen older people use Firefox (with the default UI, which I didn't like). That's why, I associated Firefox with "old and outdated". I hadn't seen anyone use brave, and it looked quite good at the time for me.

Now, I use Mercury, a Firefox fork (ikik, it hasn't seen an update in a long time, shush). I've loaded it up with my custom CSS, so its appearance is exactly the way I like.