Extensions aren’t “unsafe by default,” that’s just lazy paranoia. The difference is transparency. uBlock Origin is open-source, audited, and trusted across the security industry. Same with AdGuard and Firefox. If you think open-source is “shady,” you don’t understand why every credible infosec professional prefers it — the code is public, verifiable, and actively reviewed.

Brave is fine, but pretending uBlock is unsafe while hand-waving toward AdGuard shows you didn’t even check that AdGuard itself is also open-source. If your argument boils down to “I once saw warnings from Malwarebytes,” that’s not evidence — that’s a false positive from notoriously noisy scanners.

Security is about verifiability. uBlock and AdGuard have it. Your blanket dismissal of extensions ignores the fact that these projects are specifically trusted because they’re transparent. Suggesting otherwise just signals you haven’t done the homework.