Brave funded by Peter Thiel's VC firm

Menkork:

venture capital is all about being pragmatic above everything else

VCs demonstrate herd behaviour (FOMO, if you will) repeatedly, as the returns are utterly dictated by power law (a very small percentage of businesses dominate their total returns). Their plays don’t strike me as pragmatic but escalating bets in a game of high risks (prospect theory be damned). It is another thing they want to appear pragmatic and ambitious and world-changing etc. Though, their shtick does get found out from time to time.

Menkork:

If anyone actually has a compelling argument showing that accepting money from a data surveillance firm has compromised Brave’s privacy first approach, I’ll be the first to peace out.

It isn’t that. It is usually the marketing copy from these companies that irks whoever is paying attention. From “What is Brave?” (archive), Big tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what's not. Brave is fighting back. Hm… nice ideal, except some also lump in (for their own mileage) beneficiaries of that big-tech-money with big tech, itself. Now, this isn’t you , but you also aren’t others. As in, in your view, the agent (Brave’s products, in this case) is aligned with the principal ’s (customer) own interests, which is totally subjective (see).