Brave says its new "Origin" package delivers a premium web experience, but the one-time fee applies to all supported platforms except Linux. The San Francisco-based company developed...
  • KraeuterRoy@feddit.orgEnglish
    311·
    19 days ago

    Gonna call it now: that 60 quid ‘one time’ purchase is not gonna be the end of it.

    In, at most, a couple of years, one of these things will happen:

    • the model will be switched to a monthly subscription
    • features will be cut and sold separately
    • ‘limited, non-targeted’ ads ‘from trusted partners’ will be introduced
    • the thing will be buried completely because it’s not financially viable
    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      19 days ago

      Don’t forget the “major” version increment that breaks “lifetime”.

      • Oh, you’re mistaken. The license is for the lifetime of version 32. To use version 33 you must upgrade. But no rush, you have until version 33.1 before we activate the kill switch.
      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        19 days ago

        Or they rebrand it, and pull the “lifetime is only to the end of the product lifetime” trick.

  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    19 days ago

    The fact that they have to charge $60 to not have all that crap in there should tell you everything about why they have that crap in there. Taking it out kills their revenue stream from their “free” fully-featured version.

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    19 days ago

    Huh, funnily enough, Ive introduced my own $60 fee if they want me to read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy agreements that come along with their browser.

  • WereCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    19 days ago

    It’s free on Linux. Still, I find it difficult to justify paying for a browser unless you want to directly support it.

  • Razen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    19 days ago

    They are endorsing linux, what a good company asking users to indirectly move to linux for their browser.

    • octobob@lemmy.mlEnglish
      61·
      19 days ago

      If you really want to use a chromium-based browser, Vivaldi does all this and for free. It’s not bad, definitely a bit faster than firefox but that’s the nature of the beast for the web these days. I also like having my tabs on the side rather than the top. I think you can do that with Firefox via an extension, I’ll have to play around. But I much prefer using Firefox in my daily life

      • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        19 days ago

        Vertical tabs is a built in function of FF. I think you just right click on a tab and there’s an option on the context menu to switch maybe?