I think many people don’t like it conceptually because the advertising for Brave is:

Built in Privacy + Crypto + Ad Blocking

Firefox + uBlock Origin suffices well enough for most people. It’s stable, suits the purpose, and separates them from a company entangled with crypto.

Everyone is just trying to do their best to balance convenience with the social impacts of their actions. People make change because they care, either altruistically or personally, but it always comes with some sort of personal cost. Putting your neck out there and trying to make a change is more important than any specific browser choice

Yep, my block list is long. It’s updated occasionally. I call it “weeding the digital garden”. Negatively sprouts everywhere and it’s imperative to cull it asap.

The way I see it there’s far too many things in the digital world to care about, so I just care about basically none of them. I’d rather spend energy loving the people I love than being angry at what I see on the internet.

The internet is full of slacktivism and I find it’s more worthwhile to do something good rather than critiquing the bad and doing nothing.

Yeah, I can’t argue with that, it’s a shame :(

All the more reason to subscribe to independently owned ones if they’re available to keep them afloat :)

No specific recommendations, but I highly recommend following your local news orgs assuming you don’t live in a news desert.

The goal of big news companies is to get clicks for that delicious ad revenue and they don’t care about how predatory that is towards you.

Local news is much more community focused in my experience