The Brave brand is nearly worthless. I'm not sure how to feel about that. They're releasing their new search engine as free software, which is nice, but their long history of messing even the simplest of things up still leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I wonder if they'll ever work themselves out of the "le shill lion" moniker. Probably not. Though with this new search engine attempt, they might finally give up on cryptocurrency, which would be nice.

Brave's cryptocurrency is the only reason millions of people use it.

Perhaps, but for many others a business model of "___, but with crypto!" is a huge turn off.

> Frankly though, the Brave brand has no better reputation with me however, so it still means seeing whatever promise the tech might've had consigned to the same headspace as the rest of the scamweb.

Can I ask why? I've been de-googling my life and recently switched from Chrome to Brave.

I think it is because they're also behind BAT which is a cryptocurrency.

> hawking browser toolbars.

Ahh yes, the lowest circle of adtech hell. I didn't know that kind of annoyware was even still a thing.

It’s evolved into an even worse beast: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/is-your-browser-extensio...