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Title: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: Redaktion on June 06, 2024, 20:30:18
Although not even mentioned by Statcounter's desktop market reports, Brave is slowly but surely going up. In May, it broke its previous records with almost 79 million active users, as well as roughly 29 million daily active users. Brave Search also hit new peaks, exceeding 843 million monthly queries.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Brave-Browser-hits-new-all-time-high.844667.0.html
Title: Re: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: photon on June 07, 2024, 01:54:28
Always happy to see a new entrant in the browser market, but I really wish success and attention wouldn't go to one with so much controversy attached!
Title: Re: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: LL on June 07, 2024, 02:10:07
Brave is a very good browser.
Title: Re: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: John Walshaw on June 07, 2024, 11:43:54
I tested several major browsers on mobile and it was interesting to see how bad Google Chrome and others are. I gave Brave a top grade A. I was going to post the link but appears I'm a new user here still.
Title: Re: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: heffeque on June 07, 2024, 13:09:50
Brave was caught cheating not once, but twice (link farming was one of them if I recall correctly).
Also, it's reliant on Chromium.
That's a double nope for me.
Title: Re: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: RobertJasiek on June 07, 2024, 14:01:27
Quote from: heffeque on June 07, 2024, 13:09:50Brave was caught cheating not once, but twice (link farming was one of them if I recall correctly).

I cannot find information about this. Do you have URLs?
Title: Re: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: heffeque on June 07, 2024, 14:46:15
Quote from: RobertJasiek on June 07, 2024, 14:01:27I cannot find information about this. Do you have URLs?
Privacy browser Brave under fire for violating users' trust (https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect)

Brave Browser Caught Redirecting Users Through Affiliate Links (https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-users-through-affiliate-links)

Brave, the false sensation of privacy (https://web.archive.org/web/20210618144519/https://www.ebin.city/~werwolf/posts/brave-is-s***/) (replace "***" with "hit")

Brave Browser = Scam. A Fake Privacy Browser Sharing Your "Untracked" Data With Facebook & Others (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nxce6t/brave_browser_scam_a_fake_privacy_browser_sharing/)

I don't know if you need further links...
Title: Re: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: RobertJasiek on June 07, 2024, 17:26:13
Thanks! (Good enough URLs.)
Title: Re: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: Martin Cohen on June 07, 2024, 18:09:03
I've been using brave now on both my Mac and my Android phone. It generally works quite nicely.

Some sites don't display properly with the ad blocking on and I have to turn the blocking off to get certain pop-ups to happen properly. I generally now recognize what to do this but it was frustrating for a while when things do not appear that were supposed to.

I don't use the rewards part of brave at all. I just use it as a browser and it performs quite well aside from the problem mentioned above
Title: Re: Brave Browser hits new all-time high
Post by: Codrut Nistor on June 08, 2024, 05:31:46
For those who want to try something rather exotic that's not based on Chrome, go for K-Meleon.
Otherwise, when it comes to privacy and Brave's sins of the past... I think they deserve another chance. Although its built-in ad blocking can often ruin websites. I'd just suggest to disable that part and enable it just for shady websites that are unusable otherwise.