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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-26T11:53:54.000Z",
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  "textContent": "> Sorry I read this while at work and thought you were @Menkork. If you were, your response would have implied that position.\n\nI mean, to be fair, it’s funny you apologized for confusing me with that other poster, because “Is that what I said?” is exactly what I would have replied to you anyway.\n\nI think there’s just been a bit of a disconnect here. I never said the browser necessarily had to be exactly $60, nor did I claim Brave has zero other revenue streams. I was just pointing out that they can’t monetize these specific users. You’re trying to argue Steiner math, and I’m just trying to argue the broader business principle. I think the assumptions behind your math are doing more heavy lifting than my point about Brave already having limited ways to monetize that audience.\n\nIf we look at what you wrote, we actually agree on the core issue. You correctly pointed out that the only people who want this Origin browser are the hardcore anti bloat crowd who already block all ads. As you noted, they generate zero revenue for the company.\n\nSince maintaining a separate, bespoke fork of a browser costs real money, (a LOT of it by the way as privacy guides pointed out on their stream) the challenge with raising the subscription price by $1 on everyone else is that it asks regular, everyday users to subsidize a boutique browser for a set of users who refuse to be monetized.\n\nThere is a huge risk of cannibalizing their own product if it’s too cheap. If Brave makes this premium bloat free, ad free version so cheap, that it’s not even slightly gatekeeping a little bit to even download, why would anyone use the regular version? That could end up, biting them in the ass harder than anything else in terms of operating at a loss. Some people are already freaking out that they’re selling a $60 version and that’s not sustainable for their business. That I don’t necessarily agree with, but I think if they go too low, then it could be a problem.\n\nThat is really why a price tag exists in the first place. It covers the cost of the users who don’t want to be monetized, and it acts as a barrier so the rest of the user base doesn’t abandon the core product that keeps the lights on. It’s just tough to expect a company to build a custom product for free and pass the development bill to everyone else.\n\nI personally feel like $60 is too much. On the other hand, we have to keep in mind, there is nothing wrong with the standard Brave. Origin is just a boutique solution to a boutique problem, and if someone insists on the boutique experience, it only makes sense they pay the cover charge, rather than asking users of other services from brave to subsidize that bill for them.",
  "title": "Wish for \"clean\" Brave Browser"
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