Brave Origin Daily Ping: Why Is It Enabled by Default?

I have been discussing this issue with others over on the Privacy Guides Forum. Particularly two forum posts which include several screenshots I captured of the “daily usage ping” toggle disappearing after restarting Brave origin.

  1. https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/brave-launches-paid-bloat-free-brave-origin/37300/127
  2. https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/brave-launches-paid-bloat-free-brave-origin/37300/135

Apologies if linking out to other forums in this way is prohibited/restricted, I was simply hoping to avoid replicating the work that went into those original posts unnecessarily.

Edit: I’ll add here that in both posts Brave Origin was installed via the instructions provided at: https://brave.com/origin/linux/

Linked post 1 followed the “Fedora Atomic Desktops” instructions and linked post 2 followed the OpenSUSE instructions including for the Nightly install.