Technology

I just left the following comment on the article:

So, just to recap, don't use Brave Browser because:

Its CEO & a shareholder hold right-wing political views
It pays users (who opt-in) crypto (whereas other browsers pay users nothing)
It has an ad model (that you neglect to mention also pays users crypto for viewing ads)
It once allowed users with (pre-existing) FTX accounts to link them via a widget
It partners with Gemini (to allow users to offload/exchange the BAT they've earned, not mentioned)
Gemini has an SEC case (part of the SECs crypto witch hunt which includes a failed case vs XRP)
Crypto(dot)com faced layoffs during a bear market
And the first ever Web3 gaming expo had low attendance?

Your arguments are truly weak. I don't even use Brave as my main Browser, but I'll likely be using it more often now literally because this article annoyed me that much. Also FWIW I'm a liberal and member of the LGBTQ+ community, I detest that Eich would donate to prop 8 but I also respect that we live in a country where people will have vast political differences and still be able to see past those things and interact without demonizing and trying to cancel each other.

As for that ad replacement model they abandoned, I can kinda see what the thinking was there: The browser is going to block site's ads regardless, and the browser is going to show its own ads to users who opt into earning BAT for viewing ads regardless. So why not combine those things and replace site's ads with Brave's ads? I can see how they would have been high fiving in the office thinking that was a win/win until the problems were loudly and angrily pointed out to them by others.

In any event Brave serves a niche market segment that no one else is focusing on at the moment, problematic politics of some executives aside, that's a thing that'll have legs so long as no competition (with perhaps better exec political leanings) rises to challenge them.

Just my 2 pesos, don't kill me.