{"slug": "brave-origin", "name": "Brave Origin", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 1, "score": 2.581, "rising": 3.0, "first": "2026-04-16", "latest": "2026-09-29", "why": "I just started using Brave Origin after trying to switch to Safari for a while.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I just started using Brave Origin after trying to switch to Safari for a while.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Brave Origin"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798182977, "item_id": 49886436, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886436", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-09-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's very straightforward to either disable or remove it entirely by just using Brave Origin.", "excerpt": "This isn't accurate. Mozilla stopped focusing on their core product, which was the browser. Brave has desperately been trying to monetize the creation of a privacy-focused browser for some time, much to the chagrin of folks on HN. I decided to pay for their open source offering, which doesn't have any of that. The hate for Brave is some combination of people dredging up issues from very early in their existence and m", "context": "", "use_case": "removing crypto features", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 789175121, "item_id": 49323445, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323445", "by": "microtonal", "date": "2026-08-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "though I use Brave Origin with its built-in blocker now, which is stellar", "excerpt": "If you use the Safari adblocker, it will use rule lists, not proxy all traffic. That said, IMO on Safari Wipr all the way (though I use Brave Origin with its built-in blocker now, which is stellar).", "context": "", "use_case": "browser with built-in ad blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"}, {"id": 788595584, "item_id": 49287224, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287224", "by": "mrdependable", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just started using Brave Origin after trying to switch to Safari for a while.", "excerpt": "I just started using Brave Origin after trying to switch to Safari for a while. Safari felt aggravating to use after having used Chrome for so long, but Brave has been great.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browser", "switched_from": "Safari", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 787565296, "item_id": 49222831, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222831", "by": "microtonal", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the built-in ad blocking has been very good, including YouTube, etc.", "excerpt": "Non-user hostile browsers will just build in the ad blocker. I have been using Brave Origin (the paid version of Brave that doesn't have all the extras) and the built-in ad blocking has been very good, including YouTube, etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing with built-in ad blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 764816960, "item_id": 47801060, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801060", "by": "bigyabai", "date": "2026-04-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Oh cool, we used to call these a \"web browser\" when I was growing up.", "excerpt": "> Brave Origin is a minimalist version of Brave that allows users to disable the revenue-generating features that otherwise support Brave as a business. Oh cool, we used to call these a \"web browser\" when I was growing up.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Brave Origin"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["removing crypto features", "browser with built-in ad blocking", "daily browser", "stripped-down brave", "browsing with built-in ad blocking"], "compared": [{"slug": "brave", "name": "Brave", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "safari", "name": "Safari", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878759", "title": "I switched to Brave", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220392", "title": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319633", "title": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286427", "title": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801026", "title": "Brave Origin", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 798182977, "item_id": 49886436, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886436", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-09-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's very straightforward to either disable or remove it entirely by just using Brave Origin.", "excerpt": "This isn't accurate. Mozilla stopped focusing on their core product, which was the browser. Brave has desperately been trying to monetize the creation of a privacy-focused browser for some time, much to the chagrin of folks on HN. I decided to pay for their open source offering, which doesn't have any of that. The hate for Brave is some combination of people dredging up issues from very early in their existence and m", "context": "", "use_case": "removing crypto features", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798078545, "item_id": 49879909, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879909", "by": "lenova", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "They released \"Brave Origin\" recently, which is a paid app on some platforms, but at least cuts out of all the unnecessary baggage.", "excerpt": "Ah, the author is Kev Quirk! I really enjoyed his SimpleCSS project: https://github.com/kevquirk/simple.css I also relate to this post: tried to make Firefox my default browser for years, but slowly Brave became my default browser over time due to its adblocking abilities and general speed. That said, Brave is a bit of a UI mess out of the box, with too many of their unnecessary \"features\" like their wallet and crypt", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 789175121, "item_id": 49323445, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323445", "by": "microtonal", "date": "2026-08-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "though I use Brave Origin with its built-in blocker now, which is stellar", "excerpt": "If you use the Safari adblocker, it will use rule lists, not proxy all traffic. That said, IMO on Safari Wipr all the way (though I use Brave Origin with its built-in blocker now, which is stellar).", "context": "", "use_case": "browser with built-in ad blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"}, {"id": 788595584, "item_id": 49287224, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287224", "by": "mrdependable", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just started using Brave Origin after trying to switch to Safari for a while.", "excerpt": "I just started using Brave Origin after trying to switch to Safari for a while. Safari felt aggravating to use after having used Chrome for so long, but Brave has been great.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browser", "switched_from": "Safari", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 788090834, "item_id": 49255677, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255677", "by": "antibarbarus", "date": "2026-08-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "allows you to have a browser without all the cruft compiled in", "excerpt": "Brave sort of created that themselves, it\u2019s called Brave Origin and allows you to have a browser without all the cruft compiled in. Believe it or not, it\u2019s meant to be a paid product, but it\u2019s (intentionally) free on Linux. Now, on Linux there\u2019s also a setting in regular Brave which allows you to uncover per-feature switches to disable offending elements and retain some, which is the way I use it, to avoid having to ", "context": "", "use_case": "stripped-down Brave", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}, {"id": 787565296, "item_id": 49222831, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222831", "by": "microtonal", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the built-in ad blocking has been very good, including YouTube, etc.", "excerpt": "Non-user hostile browsers will just build in the ad blocker. I have been using Brave Origin (the paid version of Brave that doesn't have all the extras) and the built-in ad blocking has been very good, including YouTube, etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing with built-in ad blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}, {"id": 764816960, "item_id": 47801060, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801060", "by": "bigyabai", "date": "2026-04-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Oh cool, we used to call these a \"web browser\" when I was growing up.", "excerpt": "> Brave Origin is a minimalist version of Brave that allows users to disable the revenue-generating features that otherwise support Brave as a business. Oh cool, we used to call these a \"web browser\" when I was growing up.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Brave Origin"}]}