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I Recommend Against Brave

If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I mean, it's even listed on

Image courtesy of Ars Technica This happened because Brendan Eich had been donating small sums of money to very problematic, anti-LGBTQ political organizations, which — rightfully — caused Mozilla employees who were part of the LGBTQ community to feel uneasy and in danger under the new leadership. Amazon's affiliate program, which relies on sending out product links augmented with a ref feral code to gain a small commission from the eventual purchaseThe person who initially sounded the alarm was Twitter user@cryptonator1337, who, having a good level of involvement with the cryptocurrency and blockchain community, noticed something fishy going on. But yeah, if you are a big fan of AI and crypto, and are okay with having advertisements in the user interface out of the box, are okay with past attempts to steal money from websites and collect donations towards people who wouldn't necessarily even receive it, plus you can put up with occasional privacy mistakes… use Brave!

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