Brave Launches Paid, Bloat-Free "Brave Origin"

Menkork:

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The “security assurance” angle does sound reasonable in a commercial scenario. It makes sense for Brave to take advantage of this as a company. Although, even staying within the confines of commercial strategy, my preferred approach would to seek improvement in community projects, rather than having security delivered by a restricted few to a restricted few. But yes, it makes sense.

In a personal use scenario, though? I don’t really see the point. It does make sense for someone who considers spending the money as an end in itself. As for the security of Chromium vs. Firefox, I do not claim to have any credential on the matter, but I think that Chromium’s security advantage over Firefox is heavily overstated; mostly due to the virulent spread of an older article written by Madaidan that criticized Firefox, and interpreted by the online masses with varying levels of technical understanding.

Anyways, thanks for the insightful response. I appreciate it.

anonymous610:

Isn‘t this always the way to go for companys to do money (YouTube shows ads [problem] and then sells YouTube Premium [solution], same with Spotify, Pandora, Twitter etc. etc.)?

Yes, this is a problem prevalent in most of the tech industry and online services. You can probably see why I don’t think this is anything worth praising.