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This person was talking about the making money aspect (the rewards program) in the browser, not the browser itself making money off their users. At least that's what I believe they were talking about.

Because people in this community already know not to use Google Chrome and Microsoft.

There are plenty of free, open sourced, browsers that don't monetize their users.

Past behaviors are what companies are judged on. If you want a good Chromium option use Ungoogled Chromium or just don't use Chromium based browsers.

For the mobile thing, if you are on an iPhone you can use AdGuard with Safari, and if you're on Android you have pretty much unlimited options. (If you're on an iPhone you've pretty much given up on privacy anyway.)

Firefox with arkenfox's user.js or forks of Firefox such as Librewolf. You could also use Mullvad's browser.

I didn't mention that the CEO is an asshole because 1. that's subjective and 2. it doesn't relate to privacy in any way. The browser actively monetizing social media creators without their consent (and by extension misleading their users) is much more privacy related (in my opinion).

I don't hate cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency is one of, if not the, best way to pay for something completely anonymously (for example XMR). I don't believe I actively hated on cryptocurrency anywhere in this post, I simply showed how Brave is using it for malicious purposes.

I'd pay for a browser upfront if free solutions didn't already exist.

I have made an entire post detailing (some) of the reasons why you shouldn't use Brave.

For the comments, can anyone give me an actual reason to use Brave over Firefox (and it's forks)? I guess the cryptocurrency aspect is a reason, but I wouldn't say it's a very good one.

Brave is absolutely a bad browser. Brave is still very much spyware, but you can't mitigate it like you can with Firefox. Brave is an advertisement company, and has been in multiple controversies such as injecting affiliate codes into links. There is zero reason to use Brave.

Just use all of them.

so what you're saying is use SearXNG

For the record, I use SearXNG with Librewolf