... but leaving its scamminess levels unchanged
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Tbh even apart from the scams, Brave is such a crappy UX compared to Firefox/LibreWolf/IronFox that I wouldn't use it regardless. Idk why people hype this garbage
Brave is the only browser I'm aware of that allows you to easily toggle cookies on and off on a per-site basis. This seems like an obvious and important privacy feature but no one else offers it.
uBlock Origin is another engine.
I'm not sure how it compares to Brave but I did some benchmarks and found uBO to use significantly less RAM than alternatives like AdGuard. Nevermind that it's more trustworthy by far than basically all the alternatives...
Alternative spyware is no better than Google spyware
Brave is/was funded by Peter Theil and Brandon Eich is an advisor for Palantir. Hard pass.
Yep. Stay away from Brave.
So, I'm guessing they coded it originally with an LLM, and then used more LLMs to optimize and fix the shit from the first pass.
"Look guys: our steaming pile of shit is slightly smaller"
To be clear: this is completely unfounded conjecture, but it sounds in-line to me for Brave.
Nice.