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thanks for the links and info. I use brave as well as firefox and other browsers depending on what device I'm using. The spyware link is worth a quick read to understand any risks. It's great to see some analysis done there. I actually feel a little better about brave now, I'm ok with those risks for most cases and brave blocks ads better for me than what I've seen in other browsers. I'm always willing to switch though, I have no loyalty to any browser.
uBlock Origin does basically the same thing Brave's adblock does only better and more customizable.
unlock Origin is a huge performance hog on my system, whereas Brave runs as fast as Chrome. Thank you for the heads up, but for people in the middle ground of "I know what ads are and I want them blocked, and when I see a Brave ad I'll ignore it", I think Brave is fine
Unlikely mate. Millions use it. Its pretty lightweight.
The spyware link is not a credible resource. Read some of the other comments here and look at what that site says about Firefox.