I actually appreciate the openness. As long as it is openly communicated and optional (but yes... its opt-out instead opt-in), I do not mind that much.

Hmmm not keen on letting Brave censor the web for me. And why the hell would Brave give Waterfox money if there's no telemetry?

Idgaf about allowing search ads by default on their search partner, whatever fine.

But the Brave part smells really really bad, wasn't their ad blocker inserting ads of its own?

Brave's adblockers is subpar in comparison to uBlock Origin and their tool set. It is not only about block lists.

use ublock...