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It's because a lot of people are bought into BAT (Brave's cryptocurrency) and have a strong financial incentive to shill Brave.

• DaSHacka 3y ago
  BAT gives like no money, especially after the crypto crash. Its far more likely its just the browser wars of old, but with even less options to choose from people are going to be more adamant their choice is the best.
• boondoggle16 3y ago
  I do not use BAT or any crypto. Brave just works, and it blocks ads automatically when I tell friends to install it on their computers. I used to recommend Firefox, but Mozilla has totally jumped the shark (privacy violations [multiple], wastes too much money, blocks APIs that are useful with no real security risks while approving APIs with little use that do have security risks, etc, very user hostile). Chromium is obviously not trustworthy at this point, let alone Chrome. So that leaves like, Safari and Opera? Brendan Eich is the CEO of Brave, and I trust him. Mozilla was good until he was ousted for political reasons.
  • nicce 3y ago
    > Chromium is obviously not trustworthy at this point, let alone Chrome. So that leaves like, Safari and Opera Brave is like 99% of Chromium + uBlock…
    • boondoggle16 3y ago
      Right, I should have said "the main Chromium branch is obviously not trustworthy". It is possible to remove the untrustworthy bits, however, and there are a variety of de-googled Chromium builds. Chromium is a great browser, unfortunately the official branch has been poisoned by Google.
• tokai 3y ago
  Ah that makes sense why brave fans post a bit like cryptobros.