Real news can still be used to push a propaganda narrative

...and then they link TASS. Lol.

iS tHaT a PrO rUsSiAn sOuRcE?

And yet somehow the head office with total power is hereditary just like a monarchy.

So you're saying Democracy is good then?

CTO material right there.

The guy who runs the site literally works for Brave. It says so in the about page.

Oftentimes it's done because it's cheaper, though oftentimes it's actually more expensive but they calculate that money from licenses post initial sale gets them more revenue and margin in the end anyway.

Still, even if it always was cheaper for the manufacturer this way, the point here is companies should not be able to control something you physically own once you have purchased it. It's a dangerous precedent to set and things like this will creep into more and more products if we let it.