Brave has decent ad-blocking but has a shady history ...

What is shady about it?

When you try to visit https://lobste.rs using Brave on Linux (on macOS it somehow works) you are blocked and given the following links:

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761 https://web.archive.org/web/20250109000904/https://lobste.rs...

edit: in the past you would always get blocked, now I don't get blocked anymore when visiting lobste.rs with Brave. Anyway, do with this information as you please.