I installed the Brave browser and it annoyed me, what the hell are points and all that crap
You may disable the stuff you do not need. Such as rewards to begin with!
I went back to Chrome with AdGuard.com installed.
Chrome? It is data collection terminal ;-( Even with Adguard. Adguard by itself is fine, but...
This is what Brave does -
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove) :
Google accounts integration ("GAIA") is disabled
All features that send data to Google are removed from settings
DNS prefetching is disabled
Chrome Google URL Tracker is disabled
Domain service reliability is disabled
Inline extensions are disabled
Background sync is disabled
Hyperlink ping attribute is disabled
Battery API is disabled
WebBluetooth API is disabled
WebRTC debug log uploading is disabled
WebXR is disabled
Uploading settings after resetting profile is disabled
Retrieving OEM default settings after resetting profile is disabled
Tracing crash log uploading is disabled
Google Cloud Messaging is disabled
Firebase Cloud Messaging is disabled
Push client channel updates are disabled
Network time tracker is disabled
Google-assisted address normalization is disabled
RAPPOR log uploading is disabled
Specific features are disabled on startup via the CLI (search for disabled_features)
Remove dl.google.com repository from Linux packages
Disable metrics reporting
Disable field trials
Disable Lookalike URLs Navigation Suggestions
Services We Proxy Through Brave Servers
Google does not receive any information about which client is performing these requests (not even your IP address).
SafeBrowsing requests are proxied
Geolocation requests are proxied
Plugin updates are proxied
Certificate revocation requests are proxied
Page translation requests are proxied and replaced with Microsoft cognitive services (currently disabled by ENABLE_BRAVE_TRANSLATE_GO build flag)
Requests for CRLSets are proxied
Requests for component updates are proxied
Requests for spellcheck dictionaries are proxied
Cookies are given a maximum lifetime of 7 days for cookies set through Javascript and 6 months for cookies set through HTTP
Referrer values are modified in the following ways
cross-origin requests for iframes and sub-resources have their referrer set to be the origin of the requested resource
cross-origin navigations have no referrer at all
same-origin requests of all kinds have the same behavior as Chromium
Media Router Extension (Chromecast) is disabled by default. You can turn it on by toggling the switch in brave://settings.
Plugins, sensors and background-sync page permissions are disabled by default. Users can override these using the usual page permission settings.
Download protection remote lookups are currently disabled (
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/4341).
Remote debugging is disabled by default. Can be toggled on brave://settings/privacy (implemented with
https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/4044). This will hit Google servers and is not proxied (yet). There is an issue created for proxying and enabling this by default.