[taopai]

It is my main browser in android. Never seen any add except some new stuff hard-coded. Yes there is something about crypto but I never used it. I am a pretty happy user. I don't understand why they market their product, I don't know any other alternative that blocks adds and is that fast on android.

Users concerned about security and privacy should use TOR. It is very useful to browse websites blocked in my country.

[progbits]

"there is crypto but I don't use it"

Fair enough, but some of us consider the mere presence of crypto features to be a problem. It entirely erodes my trust in the teams judgment and if Firefox ever added something like that would have to switch away as well.

[ksey3]

Just dismissing it as a "crypto feature" is pure robotic mindlessness. We are past the point where crypto scammers ruled the day. The scammers/hype herd have moved on to AI.

Who is left behind holding the crypto bag, are different kind of people. Even central banks are using "crypto features" to implement CBDCs. The BAT tokens Brave has proposed is not a bad thing, even if it doesn't work out, to the problem of Attention Capture and Attention theft. We need such ideas and experiments. People's attention is not someone else's property. Google and Mozilla don't even talk about how much Attention theft is going on, leave alone what the solution is.

[TheRoque]

I think you are naive to think that crypto has no role to play in Brave browser. 66% of the tokens are given to the investors, and Brave is a for-profit, which obviously mean that investors will want a return in their investment someday. I'm curious to see how they'll do it, not saying it'll be toxic, but with all their crypto stuff they are starting off the wrong foot And if they can't make it profitable, well the project will be dead anyways.