New Update Brave planning to introduce subscription for customizing the browser?

@Jack

This entire thread is full of misinformation.

These are the Brave CEO confirmed facts:

1. Brave Origin is free on Linux.
2. Brave Origin requires a one-time small payment on non-Linux - if the user wants the "debloated" version.

There is no subscription for Brave Origin.
 
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@Jack

This entire thread is full of misinformation.

These are the Brave CEO confirmed facts:

1. Brave Origin is free on Linux.
2. Brave Origin requires a one-time small payment on non-Linux - if the user wants the "debloated" version.

There is no subscription for Brave Origin.
Do we really need Jack, didn't you just set it, us straight? Not every thread and post on this forum is spot on, is it? At times, we are talking around the water cooler, and do post some other interesting and helpful insights along the way, no?

Cheers :)
 
1. Brave Origin is free on Linux.
2. Brave Origin requires a one-time small payment on non-Linux - if the user wants the "debloated" version.

There is no subscription for Brave Origin.
Do you have a link to a resource stating it is free on Linux?

In Linux flatpak Brave is by far the fastest browser (on my laptop Brave scores 19.1 in Speedometer 3.1 while Ungoogled scores 14.4 and Firefox 13,3). When the fee is not to expensive I will probably pay it for my Android phone.
 
On Android I also have FF installed with uBlock, but I still like Brave better, its built in ad blocker, layout out, and settings work well for me.
Let alone like others have mentioned, on a PC, no YouTube ads (I don't, rarely go on YouTube with my phone).
Firefox is massive battery hog, isn't optimized and lack so much features that desktop variant has. The most annoying one is you can't select website language, only Firefox language which applies to websites as well.
I don't want Firefox on Croatian, but I do want to set website language as Croatian and it's one of the reasons why I'm not using it.
 
Do we really need Jack, didn't you just set it, us straight? Not every thread and post on this forum is spot on, is it? At times, we are talking around the water cooler, and do post some other interesting and helpful insights along the way, no?

Cheers :)
In the first post I literally embedded X post from Brendan Eich himself saying "modest monthly fee (pricing not final; discount for annual)" and I haven't found any new information about it being free on Linux or being one-time fee. Even if it was disinformation, it certainly wasn't made on purpose and if someone has anyone more details, it's welcome to contribute to the topic (it's free).
 
In the first post I literally embedded X post from Brendan Eich himself saying "modest monthly fee (pricing not final; discount for annual)" and I haven't found any new information about it being free on Linux or being one-time fee. Even if it was disinformation, it certainly wasn't made on purpose and if someone has anyone more details, it's welcome to contribute to the topic (it's free).
Oh, and I knew that, and saw (read it) that, just maybe my appeasing that member a bit? ;) :)
It's been a really good thread, as I've learned a lot from reading the posts :)
 
In the first post I literally embedded X post from Brendan Eich himself saying "modest monthly fee (pricing not final; discount for annual)" and I haven't found any new information about it being free on Linux or being one-time fee. Even if it was disinformation, it certainly wasn't made on purpose and if someone has anyone more details, it's welcome to contribute to the topic (it's free).
 
well, glad i don't use brave, its a nice browser but I prefer smaller screen sizes (between 22-28 inches) so a brower that has a big adress bar/tab interface UI is a no go for me, so think FF in compact mode, or as im using now Vivaldi. And brave lacks the ability to change the density.
 

So what we learned from this topic is basically following:

There will be a subscription...
It will be one-time fee except on Linux...​
It will be part of Brave...
Brave remains the same, it will be the separate build...​

As I said, it seems to me like they wanted to create a subscription, but criticism led them to one-time fee. It also seems like they were to make it part of Brave, then decided to make a separate build for Brave Origin due to backlash.

But again, it doesn't make sense to have normal Brave with the same ability for free and a separate Brave Origin build which would allow you the same for a fee. You can already disable everything through Group Policy, just not through regular settings. Does it mean users would have to pay to have ability to remove everything from settings? 😂
 
well, glad i don't use brave, its a nice browser but I prefer smaller screen sizes (between 22-28 inches) so a brower that has a big adress bar/tab interface UI is a no go for me, so think FF in compact mode, or as im using now Vivaldi. And brave lacks the ability to change the density.
Using it on a 13" screen currently:
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Edge (not Chrome, as it only works with uBOL) with uBO perform as good Brave, with only Copilot (easily disabled) while offering better UI and more "useful" features.

The only reason to use Brave, is uBO and uBOL are not working anymore.