@marcos55 Well, extensions are something you’re installing after and they each have their own policies on what they can see or how they interact with a browser. It is up to the User whether they want to use these extensions and want to allow the extension to interact in such ways. Otherwise, you go without it. It’s also important to note that if you’re worried about privacy, that using extensions makes your device easier to fingerprint and is generally not suggested.
In terms of getting extensions, the primary way is through Chrome store until they do away with it after Manifest V3 is launched. And no, Brave doesn’t have any immediate plans for an extension store at this time.
You can avoid the Chrome extension store by manually installing extensions by downloading the CRX file and applying it to the browser yourself. Yet you’ll still have whatever data they need to interact with as part of the agreement and it will still make your browser a bit easier to fingerprint.
The purpose for using Brave?
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Brave is faster
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Brave blocks ads by default and will continue doing so, even after Manifest V3, which is something other browsers won’t be able to do.
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Brave and Firefox both isolate cookies and prevent 3rd party from tracking. One big win for Brave though will be that it also is implementing a feature to do away with all cookie notices, especially since many of them were found to be fake and still try to put cookies on your device even if you declined.
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There are a lot of included features on various versions, such as Playlist that either are already available or will be soon.
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Though may not matter to you, Brave also has Brave Wallet innate so you can use it to send/swap/receive crypto.
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Rewards is there. Regional Support is being revamped, so there’s more restricted access for the time being in terms of removing it to your bank or outside of Brave, but it can be “free money” up to $5 or so a month depending on where you live.
I’m probably missing a few things, but food had just finished as I was typing this and I don’t want to let it get cold. I will end with one thing though, and that’s a link to a Q&A we recently had with Luke Mulks and Jimmy Secretan from Brave. You might find some of it interesting. Link is Some of your questions answered. Recap of Community Call from 09/20/2022
One thing I’ll point out in particular though is about extensions:
Question #25 Will Brave ever have its own extension store rather than relying on Google’s extension store?
Answer: The overhead involved in bringing out something like an extension store is blocking it for now. There are a lot of questions about whether that would be best or doing something more like a DApp experience/DApp store. But there are no immediate plans for an extension store at this time.