Brave funded by Peter Thiel's VC firm

I use Brave very begrudgingly. They have been heavily sketchy pretty much since the beginning but there is nothing to migrate to that is chromium based for the time being. I am actively looking at the Hardening Chromium Project to have MacOS support but for the time being I am stuck using Brave with policies. Brave had a referral program that seemed to have the intention of getting people on Brave to raise the value of their shitcoin and has always made me skeptical of them. We all should’ve stopped trusting them the moment when they got caught adding affiliate links to crypto urls and pocketing the BAT of creators who had no idea they were getting contributions which is very much giving the same vibes as the Honey extension to be honest. I view Brave the same way I view Apple when it comes to privacy. They only care about protecting it so their market share is more valuable in the future. Some may disagree here but I personally believe any form of advertising outside of word mouth and promotion is coercion. People argue all the time about it being open source but in practice that really does nothing if the rest of the company is pretty opaque. With that being said it may be difficult to migrate away from Brave for various reasons On iOS it can be used a solid YouTube Client since nothing like NewPipe exists and when they do pop up it never lasts long term. On Stock Android it’s the only decent alternative to Chrome that can keep up with security updates. On desktop there is Helium but the inclusion and integration of the unmaintained uBlock Origin MV2 is a major security concern for me that I cannot overlook. Trivalent is awesome if you have Fedora and Vanadium if you use GrapheneOS and looks like the best implementation of web browsers I’ve seen so far. Issue is they are restricted to one OS