[dkhenry]

This is precisely what I want from my browser, let me pay directly for a critical piece of software, and remove myself from the Surveillance Economy, without having to settle for some second class product.

Brave has been, in my opinion, the best browser for a long time, and I am happy to be able to pay for a product that I use without worrying that its going to need to sell its soul to continue to provide support

[greentea23]

But payment in of itself is necessarily surveilled.

[edsimpson]

They address that in the FAQ:

Some early Brave Origin users have asked how Brave can maintain user privacy while requiring a purchase ID (either from a Brave premium account or from the App Store / Play Store).

Brave uses a blind token protocol based on Privacy Pass, which decouples payment identity from service usage. These privacy-preserving subscription credentials allow the browser to verify you have a valid purchase of a premium product (like Origin) without learning anything about you.