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Con Hypocritical/deceptive stance on privacy and advertisement
Brave is advertised as a browser that respects your privacy and blocks ads while still supporting content creators. However, at the same time the company is making deals with Facebook, Twitter and others to whitelist their trackers and ads.
Con Dumbed down in the latest versions
In previous versions, Brave felt more like Firefox. Now it's been dumbed down, it feels more like Chrome/Chromium. For example, there's no menu-bar. And when you install Brave, it just installs, it doesn't give you any options on how to install it.
Con Tor available in browser
The torbrowser is specifically build so that every user has or close to the same device-fingerprint.
Because the brave-browser isn't that every user within brave which uses tor within the browser stands out allot more then those using TOR over the torbrowser package or within TAILS.
Thus compromising privacy for convenience.
Con Same security-holes as Chrome
On the desktop: Brave uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-holes as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a webpage that will hack Chrome may also hack Brave.
However, Brave has security features that Chrome doesn't (such as a built-in adblocker). Those features will stop many hacking attempts.
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Pro Takes care of privacy and security
Takes privacy seriously by blocking ads and trackers and not tracking people's searches. Things like HTTPS everywhere and no tracking are standard with Brave. In most other browsers, things like these are optional at best.
Con Uses Google as its default search engine
Quite ironic for the "privacy" browser.
Con Download package is very large considering it as a browser
Brave take on a lot of rolls besides just browsing so it is understandably a larger file.