Their business model is theft by another name, however they can manage to swing it. When they get caught, pivot and steal content for profit a different way. Repeat.
Saint Joseph on a hot plate, the intolerance and rigidity of thinking of people on this web page is too much. Hacker News and FB and Twitter and a million other things we use every day are also guilty of theft, theft of our time and attention and ability to think slowly enough to not just reinforce our own preconceived notions. Yes, those Brave people are shifting their model all the time. Eich and team saw first hand that a browser company is almost impossible to run for profit unless you own your own multibillion dollar ad network or half the global phone business. Eich got to learn that first hand at Mozilla. He's trying to find an audience and offer what he considers innovative products. He's no more deceptive than Google or Amazon or Ycombinator are about what gets done with the attention and clicks.
billiam|4 years ago