The usual trick is hdparm I guess? For me with a 8 disk raidz2 pool I found that playing a movie from that might put it to sleep between reads, because the longest timeout is a bit short. I’ve been using hd-idle with a 30 minuten timeout because of that for quite a few years already which has worked quite nice for me.
The only issue I’ve run into is that smart data reads count as activity, so make sure that any smart data software has a long timeout between reads and is configured to not wake disks.
Then we point to the in opt-out able donation systems they embedded into YouTube. The money goes directly to brave unless claimed and even if the content creators are against donations for their content (like Tom Scott) it’s never refunded.
Or we point to their affiliate links they embedded in every link to crypto sites for a while. Or the one site that recommends them as the best privacy browser that’s actually run by a Brave employee.
Everytime they fix it in a few weeks and tell everyone they will be better. And every time they find some other way to manipulate websites you are viewing for their gain after a year or so.
At this point it’s not the current state anymore, it’s the track record of the company that just scummy that should make you lose trust in them, but apparently their ad campaign is so effective everyone just sees the default ad blocking…