Brave Origin(brave.com)
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Brave Origin
https://brave.com/origin/
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So, we are paying for less features now?
There are people for whom that would be a value proposition. If that’s not you, well, you still get to keep the features you want for free.
Pay to remove bloatware? Brave is begging to be forked, LibreWolf-style.
This is precisely what I want from my browser, let me pay directly for a critical piece of software, and remove myself from the Surveillance Economy, without having to settle for some second class product.
Brave has been, in my opinion, the best browser for a long time, and I am happy to be able to pay for a product that I use without worrying that its going to need to sell its soul to continue to provide support
Brave has been, in my opinion, the best browser for a long time, and I am happy to be able to pay for a product that I use without worrying that its going to need to sell its soul to continue to provide support
But payment in of itself is necessarily surveilled.
They address that in the FAQ:
Some early Brave Origin users have asked how Brave can maintain user privacy while requiring a purchase ID (either from a Brave premium account or from the App Store / Play Store).
Brave uses a blind token protocol based on Privacy Pass, which decouples payment identity from service usage. These privacy-preserving subscription credentials allow the browser to verify you have a valid purchase of a premium product (like Origin) without learning anything about you.
Some early Brave Origin users have asked how Brave can maintain user privacy while requiring a purchase ID (either from a Brave premium account or from the App Store / Play Store).
Brave uses a blind token protocol based on Privacy Pass, which decouples payment identity from service usage. These privacy-preserving subscription credentials allow the browser to verify you have a valid purchase of a premium product (like Origin) without learning anything about you.