Mostly it’s their attitude to controversy.
Brave has had several major issues over the past few years and they didn’t reverse course until press got bad enough for them to make a statement and try for damage control. This includes:
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Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue
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Inserting their own referral codes into auto complete when users navigate to Binance
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Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent
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Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying
On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.
Usually yes. In some cases, companies will block access to known VPN IPs outright.
But most of the time, the cost of policing that is way higher than the revenue they’d get from the handful of VPN users that decide to go through proper channels rather than decide not to engage, or worse, spread word of their anti-consumer practices and potentially lose legitimate business.