Brave products are not open source. Not their search, and not the browser. Your post wording seems to imply that it is.

Well they were dishonest about the product behavior in multiple cases, such as adding referral links to search results. That makes it a bad product.

I’m in the US and I only have Standard as an option in my account. Is that the same as Basic or did they get rid of it here already?

You are making it sound like it’s a fault of managers and coworkers that they don’t want some cowboy coder to replace everything that’s not on a stack they consider cool anymore with their version of “better”, which is probably some half baked idea that takes 4x longer than estimated to finish, missing 75% of the business cases, has a bunch of bugs and UX problems, has had little thought to testing, deployment, rollout or user training, and will have a huge opportunity cost on actual customer demands, but hey… “it works on my machine”. Cause all that is what I think of every time some junior dev starts complaining that everything sucks.

TIL Valve started and maintains Proton…

Wait, so people used to take this guy seriously? I watched a review he did on some sim racing gear a few years back and it was obvious the guy didn’t google even the most basic advice on how to set up a sim rig properly.