Because brave has a questionable business model where they, on one hand, block third party ads and trackers, and on the other inject their own ads, tied to their BAT cryptocurrency (the latter part being opt-in IIRC).
They also:
- added their own affiliate codes when visiting some sites [1]
I switched to Orion[0] as a test, discovered the awesomeness of superbly integrated, native, tree style tabs, and now I'm stuck with this browser where sites I need for work are half broken.
I tried Firefox with Tree Style Tab extension, but it's not nearly as good :(
On firefox you can also use sidebery. If I recall correctly it worked decently well. Currently I'm using Arc which performs well enough for my use cases, although being locked into chromium kinda sucks.
An unsuspected (to me!) place for good kid friendly games, free of ads and in-app purchases or other predatory patterns, is Apple Arcade on iPad.
My 5 y/o is having great fun with the Crayola app and Cooking Mama, and, honestly, between each round, I'm waiting for an ad to pop, a nag screen to pay for stuff or review, a countdown or some other crap we're accustomed to on mobile games and no. Nothing. Just the full game and nothing else. It's a refreshing experience.
This is great to hear. The website did not contain this information from what I could see. Just to clarify: does that mean that the screen and buttons are 100% controlled by the ST33 and do not go through the unsecure chip?
The "Bibliothèque nationale de France" (national library of France) did the same kind of thing with hundreds of thousands vinyl records from their archive, including international ones published in France: http://www.bnfcollectionsonore.fr/
They also:
- added their own affiliate codes when visiting some sites [1]
- installed VPNs without consent [2]
which also taints their privacy focused posture.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/brave-browser-windows-vpn-with...
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