EDIT: I let my parent comment get the best of me, and I apologize for using the language I did. I'm going to leave it here, though, because it does express my frustration at whataboutism.
Excuse my profanity, but what the fuck are you on about?
Why the fuck would I use a browser that has the explicit fucking purpose of tracking me, whatever fucking base they base their fucking browser on?
It isn't silly. How about I don't trust either one of them?
Brave is (and you are) saying I should trust Brave because they're going to rip out Google's tracking and insert their own instead. No thank you. I'll stick with Firefox and whatever chicanery Mozilla is up to.
>Currently, I can go to the App Store, install any app, and be about 99.9% confident that the app will do me (or my technologically illiterate mother) absolutely no harm.
That's the problem though. That last 0.1% is difficult, and Facebook (which, if your technologically illiterate mother doesn't have it installed, many others do) has been repeatedly shown to do harm to their users. Yet they're still on the apple app store.
I actually want to block ads. If you want to put a small text or image blurb anywhere on the page... I don't want to see it. I'd rather people stop whoring me out and start standing up for what they believe in.
Even Debian Stable (9.x, at this point) can install kvm and virt-manager and just run at this point. I have one VB installation that came in under the license smackdown a couple of year ago that I need to migrate. There is no point in using virtualization software the current owners don't want you to run.