- Brave sells Origin to strip added features—a $60 one-time fee (free on Linux).
- Origin removes email aliases, Leo AI, VPN, Wallet, Speedreader, and more via a toggleable panel or standalone client.
- You can buy Origin on Brave Premium or enable the panel at brave://settings/system.
I never thought I’d meet a homophobe defender brave enough to venture outside their own little pocket fascist instance of lemmy.
Here are some facts:
That link does not ‘debunk’ the fact that Brave was funded, in part, by Peter Thiel. It just downplays it.
Brave’s funding was a crypto scam, and selling the idea of ‘selling out to advertisers’ to investors.
They are so incredibly ‘committed to privacy’ that they keep selling user data and illegally redirecting users.
No, to answer your whataboutism, I’m not fine with the Mozilla board having Google members among others on it. I really hate that they are spending most of their money on not web browser development, and have spent most of their money in the last two years that was ear marked for browser development on AI features the majority of users turn off. But that’s still better than supporting Brenden Eich.