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I’m glad it solved your slow speed problem, that’s wonderful. The idea of living with fewer ads sounded appealing but i wanted to check it out before downloading. At the moment, these were too much red flags for me — though ‘YMMV’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

“In August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital and the Digital Currency Group“

“In 2020, the company was found to be appending affiliate referral codes to the end of certain cryptocurrency exchange URLs typed into the browser's address bar. The practice applied to exchanges such as Binance and Coinbase, and was later discovered to extend to suggested search queries for terms like "bitcoin" and "ethereum". Following media attention, Brave CEO Brendan Eich called the behavior a mistake…”