I am mostly a Firefox user, at least until it stays around.
It’s probably successful in that it’s a well known project within the tech community. And 0.05% of the global browser market is a lot of users and probably a decent business. (Are they profitable?)
But outside of HN type audiences, no one has heard of it.
They won't stop. Ever.
Hmm...
My workplace banned the use of Brave a number of weeks back because Brave started including a VPN with it. They were concerned about people using the VPN to bypass corporate security mechanisms.
If Chrome did the same, I wonder if they'd ban that as well?