People love to nitpick, and hypocrisy is always perceived as worse than just doing bad things even when the bad things are much worse than the thing they did that's hypocritical.
Perfect is the enemy of good and all that jazz. It's basically impossible to try to be a good actor/explain a good thing without HNers throwing whataboutisms at you.
Of course maybe Brave is actually a bad actor, but none of the things people are calling them out for are meaningful evidence of that. The thing they did wasn't a tracking mechanism, it was just a sponsorship deal.
Perfect is the enemy of good and all that jazz. It's basically impossible to try to be a good actor/explain a good thing without HNers throwing whataboutisms at you.
Of course maybe Brave is actually a bad actor, but none of the things people are calling them out for are meaningful evidence of that. The thing they did wasn't a tracking mechanism, it was just a sponsorship deal.