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Yet people keep recommending products by this scummy company and pile on Firefox for slightest missteps.

Brave has always been a joke. And Brave users will always be a joke. And anyone who’s ever simped for Brave will always be a moron.

Fuck that leaky browser. Asshole development.

Firefox users stay winning. I love how mad some people are about Firefox.

Brave lets people use Origin for free if they're on Linux

lol

Brave thinks its users are suckers

The bad news is, if you're not on Team Tux, you're going to have to pay $60 for Brave Origin. Granted, you only need to buy it once, and you'll get unlimited activations across all of your devices.

It's amazing people still believe this BS.

I feel like if you're writing the sentence "an optional, paid version of our browser that offers Brave [...] without its extra features," you need to sit back and take a long, hard look at yourself.

Reminds me of a joke:

My dad always warned us about Septic Tank Steve, and that we should never pay him to do anything, and we should have listened. One day Steve came by and said if we gave him a nickel, he'd swim around in the septic tank. We thought that was hilarious, so we gave him a nickel, and he swam around the tank a while. Then he came and sat next to us on the porch and said "If you want me to leave, gimme $100."

Can we agree that Brave:

• Is scummy.

• Has a shady ceo, and a shady history.

• Is possibly a security risk.

• Is still orders of magnitude better than using Google Chrome.

And that:

• This headline is both true and clickbait-ish.

• You can turn these things off in Brave’s settings, for free.

• That doesn’t make this feature not scummy.

Basically no one should be using Brave, but no one should be using Google Chrome either, yet here we are.

And the revolving door of “best unabandoned Chromium fork to use” (Helium for the moment, or Ungoogled Chromium if you don’t mind some broken features, just to name two), is buried under so much SEO that it’s legitimately difficult to research.

So… I’m not gonna go out of my way to flame Brave users. If they’re trying to do better than Chrome, good! Not-Google is good. They can pay for this I guess. I’m not installing Brave, though, I’m not recommending it, and this certainly isn’t making me want to.

Brave runs an ad network.

"Origin" is a peculiar choice for a version name. I wonder if they're trying to go off of the popularity of a common extension

That’s a brave move.

The top comment on that site says you can already disable all of these features from within the settings. Is this true?

Are brave and Plex related?

I don't use Brave, and don't recommend it to people, but it seems like the $60 is intended as a donation/"vote-with-your-wallet on how we monetize" type product rather than something that is actually worth that much.

It doesn't change all of the OTHER problems with Brave, but it might be a step in the right direction when it comes to monetization? Pay once vs. LLM/crypto/injected ads

https://account.brave.com/?intent=checkout&product=origin

Brave Origin is a paid version of the browser for users who don't need all the features that support Brave as a business, but still want the privacy that only Brave offers. Origin users will continue to benefit from our industry-leading privacy, adblock, and speed (via Shields), as well as regular software updates, Chromium patches, and security and privacy improvements. Origin is available on desktop and mobile versions 1.91.x and above.

• Support our mission & open-source work
• Minimalist browser UI centered on Brave Shields
• Maintain core adblock, privacy, & speed
• One-time purchase can be activated multiple times across all your devices