Ah, the self-anointed "Brave" browser, that believes what humanity really needs is a middleman between publishers and readers, skimming off the ad revenue.

Brave ads are entirely opt-in. By default it only blocks ads in the same way that Firefox's tracking protection does.

That's no longer true. I seem to have been opted in to ads on the new tab screen recently.

It's Chrome with everything that people want from Firefox (privacy features). I use it too. Brendan Eich did it again.

I still don't see what's to like on brave. It's basically chrome with ublock origin and https anywhere and like maybe one or two more privacy-oriented extension - why is there a need for a different browser, like why isn't that only an extension? Also, once chrome disables adblockers I doubt they would have the manpower to fork chromium.