Re: privacy additions - I use it on iOS only for the shield toggle interface (ie I disabled the reward and vpn fluff.) Have disabled cookies. Brave user protections are as user friendly to operate as the DDG browser is obfuscated (as in DDG has one toggle called GPC, that does literally nothing.)

On desktop, Firefox built-in protection (third party cookies disabled, everything else as strict as possible) plus a few choice extensions is pretty nice.

So my two cents is that Brave is only worthwhile on iOS where you can't install browser extensions into Firefox...

Re: blockchain / human decency - I'm glad they're pushing on a complex surface that Google Contributor veered away from in horror as that builds awareness of a variety of issues, ie: I'm not sold on how they implemented / their website refuses to render anything without javascript running so that's a massive knock against them in my careless opinion. I wish librepay was as ubiquitous as patreon (stopped loading on my browser eventually due to some newly added and unknown required third party asset that I have no interest in troubleshooting...ask me what I think about google recaptcha.) The blood that lubricates the grindstone here is https://stripe.com/pricing#pricing-details which incidentally works perfectly without javascript

tl;dr: https://lemmy.ml/post/55603/comment/39186