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Comment by esperent

10 hours ago

Even better now that they have a paid offering with all that crap stripped out (Brave Origin) which is free on Linux.

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pogue  10 hours ago

Everyone has made these Brave debloat tools that basically do the same thing as their ridiculous Origin offering.

To sell for $60 a web browser that technically has all the features removed is a pretty goofy move.

  • topspin  8 hours ago

    > a pretty goofy move

    I'm doing a goofy thing and buying it, despite knowing I can debloat Brave, because I already do that. I didn't know this existed till I read this thread. I've been benefitting from Brave for many years now; it's great that they've provided a way to pay for this without dealing with the crypto stuff, and I'm extremely happy to do so, because they deserve some of my money.

    • chappi42  6 hours ago

      I'll also pay and support their work to provide a really good browser (which needed a bit debloating).

  • esperent  7 hours ago

    That's such a weird reaction. There's constantly, for years, people here asking for Firefox to just start offering a paid version to get away from needing support from Google. And yet when someone actually does that apparently it's goofy and we should just be manually stripping that out without paying.

    If you can't afford it or don't want to pay, fine. But why are you trying to influence other people to do that by labelling it "goofy"?

    How would you strip those things out mobile, by the way?