It doesn’t matter. Almost all of that is still there, except for Brave Today and SafeBrowsing (which is still there, but with their own private implementation).
Just reading the first blurb as to why brave is “spyware” automatically discredits this site as an valuable source for anything.
Brave is self updating software, uses Google as the default search engine, has built-in telemetry, and even has an opt-out rss-like news feed similar to Firefox Pocket. These shouldn’t be the things that come to mind if someone were to imagine a privacy oriented browser.
Autoupdates does not equal spyware, and in fact is essential to improving the security of the browser (especially on operating systems that don’t have package managers that update stuff for you, like windows). An RSS Feed does not compromise privacy, and even if it did, it doesn’t matter because it’s not even on by default (it’s opt in unlike what the article claims, you have to scroll down on the new tab page and press enable for it to be active), and Brave Search has been the default search engine on brave since october 2021 (coincidentally around the time this article was last updated).
Also their page on Kerbal Space Program is simply insanity and does not even remotely reflect the actual state of the game.
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Yeah, but not giving the user a way to disable a background process that’s constantly hitting the network is just wrong. Windows also has a built-in package manager that comes by default.
Some regions still use Yandex by default, which is worse than Google. I tested this about a year or a year and a half ago with a RU IP, and Yandex is still the default search engine.
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