Kinda new on here but am loving the bare bones feel to the forum. The karma bit in my previous comment was added as a sarcastic aid. I personally don't care much for gaining karma. Thank you for this extra context. Very helpful.
Except I (throwawei) had to login to another account (this one) to reply you as the downvotes triggered some soft ban limit on the account from replying/commenting.
So much for free speech...
I would post photos holding today's newspaper to prove ownership of both accounts. Probably not worth the trouble anyway
This looks like simply naive thinking. Without evidence to backup your statement about Apple, everything about it breaks the cardinal rule of the ads business.
Ouch. I can relate to a bit of some of your issues. What saved me from all these seemingly mysterious bugs is going with a pure Arch system. I was using Manjaro at the time and it wasn't fun patching it just so that it could break on the next system upgrade.
I digress, in my experience, whole system freezes usually points to system running out of ram and/or swap to fallback on. Might be worth checking out zram. Though this admittedly is a problem the Linux kernel has had for the longest time.
After using a Linux distro as my main desktop OS, there was no way I was ever going back to the monstrosity that is Windows. No matter how bad Linux sucks in some regards, it is the black sheep of the family that will always have that special place in my heart.
Any program that is Windows only, will be run on a VM. I like my systems clean, focused, lightweight & minimal.
Brave just like other Chromium-based browsers will link any logged in Google accounts to browser data/history. How much of this data is sent back to Google should be the question here. Am not qualified enough to give this but it's reasonable to say Google will have the last laugh in this scenario. I also have an eery feeling Google tracks you even when you go incognito. After all it is the same browser (leaks such as supercookies keep coming up) and more importantly, their own browser.
All this is however wild conjecture. Am paranoid at all things Google & tracking.
A better approach IMO would be to isolate all Google-related activity to its own separate browser or go Firefox containers.
Just because you (unique use case) don't see the problem doesn't mean it does not exist (for the common average user). The whole browser "sync" you get with Chrome is much more than keeping your bookmarks. It is a feature that now includes Google's ecosystem and for its users, the majority of people, it allows them to pick up where they left from. A major advantage in user experience.
Firefox has a long way to catch up to the polish & convenience of Chromium-based browsers. This is just a sad fact.
As for Brave, I won't give divulge too much to the recent tor dns leak news. Anyone knowledgeable enough to be using Tor knows the dangers of using a different browser from Tor and it's consequences.
Ah yes. Thanks for the memory. So they effectively cut their ad spend on Facebook by 2/3rds (an experiment) and saw virtually no difference between the two budgets. An obvious indication of reporting fraud.