It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
    • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      14 hours ago

      Ublock Origin is the only mandatory extension i can think of.

      Some other extensions I personally use are:

      Gesturefy is useful if you want to control things with mouse gestures (holding right-click and then drawing a shape to activate commands)

      NoScript for a little added security, with the cost of having to manually enable javascript on websites that literally can’t function without it.

      Any extension that runs userscripts.

      Dark Reader for websites that don’t offer a dark mode.

    • imjustmsk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      17 hours ago

      Just Ublock origin is more than enough, it’s pretty customisable too, Brave is for people who just wanna install and do nothing

      Except when I install Brave I have to debloat it, holy bloat so is Firefox bloated - I usually get forks (Librewolf, Zen etc)