[rglullis]

I am fairly technical and I prefer Brave because of the ads. It's the one model I think that has acceptable ethics and that can be an alternative to Surveillance Capitalism. Crypto is just an implementation detail, but an important one if you really want to make it a global alternative and that can include the unbanked.

It made me contribute to content creators way more than I have with Flattr (now owned by scammy EyeO, remember them?) or with Patreon. I can not do any of that with any other offering.

Lastly: what telemetry?

[beefee]

Here's the telemetry documentation: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/P3A

So it's sending some amount of telemetry, but it's not so bad compared to mainstream browsers. A more detailed comparison is available in this report linked by another commenter: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

[jonathansampson]

See also https://brave.com/p3a. The implementation details of P3A are really neat