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Firstly: The company, and especially its CEO, have a shady history which makes trusting them difficult.
Secondly: Their browser further promotes Google's browser monpoly. For some of us that is a huge downside.
They may be more secure than others, but they been catch too many times stealing data. Privacy isn’t their strong suit.
The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
Why this hatred? And where does it come from?
The CEO donated money towards preventing gay marriage in California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
It's a browser made by a company whose main business is advertising.
At one point they were trying a model where they adblock everything, but show you their ads instead. And then hold the money it made hostage untill the owner of the site you saw it on makes a contract with then to get paid for your ad viewing time.
But in general - an advertisement company making a browser is suspicious on so many levels...
The company has some questionable businesses, for some the simple fact that its chromium based is enough.
So what the alternative ? Especially for phone i think there are no browser that block ads & tracker. Also you can't use extensions
Setup a VPN into your LAN and self host searXNG
Ironfox is a privacy focused Firefox fork
Ironfox as mentioned and also Titanium browser which is built from Vanadium browser if you aren't on GrapheneOS. Both block ads and allow extensions, especially the ublock origin extension.
My process is open in IronFox, if it doesn't work open in vanadiam.
Brendan Eich has some of the wrong ideas