> Brave started off incredibly sketchy

Chrome has stayed incredibly sketchy from the beginning, when Google gained marketshare by sneaking Chrome into the installer for other products that people intentionally downloaded.

Then Chrome did things like "accidentally" uploading your entire browsing history to Google servers when you signed into Gmail.

Now they have declared war on ad blockers, despite the government warning that ad networks are too big a malware vector to ignore.

Same here. I don't care how they responded to the backlash, the fact that it happened in the first place was enough for me.

Brave is my default browser for non-sensitive tasks; e.g. most web browsing, GitHub, news, etc. The built-in ad-blocker & tracker blocker alone is worth it. Use chrome for testing. Stock Firefox for anything sensitive.