> And why the flood of comments like this in every Brave thread For my part in such comments (I think I even managed to catch a snippy reply from Eich once), I

> And why the flood of comments like this in every Brave thread For my part in such comments (I think I even managed to catch a snippy reply from Eich once), I believe the Web3 vision is toxic to the possibility of a truly pro-user web, and Brave as a company is up to its eyeballs in the stuff. I've seen a rot of siloing, appropriation, and pervasive monetization consume the web in the past 20 years, and Web3 is basically about "democratizing" that rot instead of stopping it. It's a bit like offering sharecropping as an alternative to serfdom: one can argue all day that it's better (credibly, even!), but it's a far cry from being pro-farmer. So when Brave stakes out the position of being pro-user and pro-privacy, I don't think it's meant in the ways that matter to me, and that feels like a kind of dishonesty. It's not that I envision the Brave C-suite gleefully rubbing their hands together like mustachioed cartoon villains at the prospect of deceiving people like me, but neither do I feel like they're being fully candid about the aims and implications of their project. In short, one might reasonably accuse me of viewing Brave's initiatives through thorn-colored glasses, but I think I came by it honestly.