Why would anyone in 2026 ever use Brave?

In 2016, Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners
In the same year, CEO Brendan Eich unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list.

In 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent.

In 2020, Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites.
Also in 2020, they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: "the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression."

In 2021, Brave's TOR window was found leaking DNS queries, and a patch was only widely deployed after articles called them out.
In 2022, Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.

In 2023, Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users' computers without their consent.
Also in 2023, Brave got caught scraping and reselling people's data with their custom web crawler, which was designed specifically not to announce itself to website owners.

In 2024, Brave gave up on providing advanced fingerprint protection, citing flawed statistics (people who would enable the protection would likely disable Brave telemetry).
In 2025, Brave staff publish an article endorsing PrivacyTests and say they "work with legitimate testing sites" like them. This article fails to disclose PrivacyTests is run by a Brave Senior Architect.
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They partnered with NewEgg to ship ads in boxes.
Brave purchased and then, in 2017, terminated the alternative browser Link Bubble.
In 2019, Brave taunted Firefox users who visited their homepage.
In 2025, Brave taunted people searching for Firefox on the Google Play Store. (The VP denied this occurred, but also demonstrated ignorance of multiple different screenshots.)
In 2026 Brave releases a non bloated version called Origin, costs $60 with only 10 activations on Windows/macOS, but is completely free on Linux. To gain market share and encourage major distros to replace Firefox as default.

This list was shamelessly stolen from Reddit

And yet he can still use it to obtain a securities-based line of credit or a margin loan.

Hot snow falls up

Property taxes are not low, actual good jobs are only plentiful when the price of oil is high, cost of living has drastically increased due to inflation as well as food and gas while wages are typically stagnant, the power grid is a piece of shit, public transportation is shit, traffic is shit, 40% of new expressways are toll roads, education system is shit as the government is actively working to kill public education in favor of bullshit vouchers...

Lower employee wages, weaker employee rights, weaker enforcement of any laws or regulations that could negatively impact corporations...

Chasing profit is not and has never been a fiduciary legal requirement for any business.

If that was the goal, it could easily be achieved by making it so the cameras are only enabled when the bus activates its stop sign/lights. But they want the cameras to always be rolling and reading plates.

They've been advertising the shit out of it on TikTok

You said people shouldn't have to give their phone number to use email. You don't have to give Google your phone number to use Gmail, only if you want the extra free storage space. What exactly are you not following?

Good news, they don't have to give their phone number to use email!

Is that when they were relentlessly pushing Tidal?

Israel gets the US to do most of their dirty work for them.

But we let Israel get away with stealing over 200 pounds of enriched uranium from the US in 1965.

Let me guess, 10,000 are in HR, 2,000 in Legal, 3,000 in Marketing, and 3,000 in Sales

LinkedIn is a fucking cesspool now. Its full of retired boomers posting memes and shitting on people who don't want to work 12 hours a day, just like Facebook.