What's up with Brave browser?

What's up with all those people recommending brave.

It's not different than any other chromium browser plus uBlock Origin and has done a lot of scummy practices in the past like stealing money from creators

*(search Tom Scott - Brave controversy)*

and inserting referral links to urls you visit.

*(This happened twice and they stopped doing it after being called out the 2nd time, saying it was a bug. Okay sure...)*

Are most of the people who recommend it automated …

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