It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:
- It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
- It has ads right out of the box.
- It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
- They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
They accepted donations for every creator on every platform. Using the creator’s photos. Implying the creators would get the donations. In fact they only got the pseudo-money if they handed over all their personal details to Brave and agreed to Brave’s terms. Otherwise, those donations quietly vanished, presumably into Brave’s coffers.
See also https://web.archive.org/web/20181221180137/https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1076160882873380870