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It still has to be feature rich and work or of the box. I haven't been back to Firefox in a few years, but it was pretty dumpy by comparison to brave. I'll look again but the key feature of a browser to me isn't "it's not Google, it's Foss, and I don't have to disable stuff".
I'm gonna hope you're a fellow Linux user if that's the perspective you take.
You use linux but your primary criteria for the most used program on a PC is not having to configure it?
That's a pretty odd middle ground to take.
I think you misread me. I said I don't mind configuring. It's not hard to turn off default options.
I wasn’t arguing for Firefox or FOSS. It just seems to me that if your selling point is trust and privacy (at least it is what I see people citing as Brave’s Big Thing), you should be as transparent and irreproachable in that regard as possible. Having said this, of course, good features can be enough for the trade-off to be worth it (this is true of pretty much every piece of software out there, Chrome included), depending t each user finds more important.