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Re:Brave files adtech complaint against Google on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:53PM (#17972533)
TL;DR: Brave lied about blocking 3rd party JS and I no longer trust them.

The main reason I don't use Brave anymore is because I don't trust the Brave team to be transparent about what they're doing. I remember switching to Brave a year or two ago really rooting for them and the model they were positing. I though that blocking third-party JavaScript by default was a great idea - no more Firefox plugins! Well, I soon realized that Brave did not block all third-party JS and instead let "whitelisted"(by whom?) JS through. When I asked one of the Brave team members why this was so and informed them that I found this practice misleading at best I was given a song-and-dance about "rescuing the industry" instead of a technical explanation for the issue at hand(blocking third-party JS essentially didn't work).

I can't be bothered to use a browser who's developers can't be bothered to be honest about the feature set and how they work.