Oh shit. Someone finally called my "I'd pay not to have to use AI" bluff.

Unless you absolutely want to contribute to the chromium monopoly, Firefox is right there and still free. If you're concerned about the telemetry, LibreWolf is worth looking at.

The fact that they have to charge $60 to not have all that crap in there should tell you everything about why they have that crap in there. Taking it out kills their revenue stream from their “free” fully-featured version.

Huh, funnily enough, Ive introduced my own $60 fee if they want me to read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy agreements that come along with their browser.

It's so weird to me that people go nuts over Brave or Opera GX or whatever when Firefox and forks like Zen or LibreWolf are around and do their job so well.

Brave is a scam and not security or privacy

Brave is something I never wanted in the first place.

Good news for me! I don't have to pay since I don't use brave at all. Yay me!

Don't give bigots your money...

It’s free on Linux. Still, I find it difficult to justify paying for a browser unless you want to directly support it.

That's what you get for using a broader called brave. We all knew we'd end up here.

You can go into the settings and manually disable (nearly?) all the features that are removed in the paid version without paying anything. That’s what I did. They aren’t paywalling the ability disable the features.

It doesn’t matter to me whether someone uses Brave or not, but the headline is misleading, though pedantically accurate.

Donate to LadyBird.

They are endorsing linux, what a good company asking users to indirectly move to linux for their browser.