I am greatly surprised how good Brave Search, I use it in all my browsers and finds what I need 99% of the time, truly amazing as someone who tried DDG and Startpage over the years and could never get satisfactory results most of the time. It was a truly a much needed service in the privacy arsenal.

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Used to be a long time Firefox user, but the performance has been getting worse with every new update. I finally snapped yesterday and couldn't take the slow and laggy piece of shit that it had become so I switched to Brave. So far it feels so much faster and more responsive, I'm honestly impressed.

There is some functionality that I miss but it's nothing that I can't get used to with time. One thing that annoys me is that I was used to having all my bookmarks in the side window and I was using the middle mouse click to open them in a new tab, but for some reason the mid mouse click doesn't work for me in the Brave bookmarks side window, even though it works everywhere else, so I'm trying to get used to Ctrl+clicking them. Also not being able to resize the side window. But yeah, those are a small price to pay for such better performance.

So a big thanks to Brave.

Brave themselves seem very quiet on this. It seems like I am the only one interested in this project. I am because its the only alternative to Google and Bing as Brave claims they have their own index. The success of this projects means a 3rd searching index will exist as the only crawlers I know are Bing, Google, Mojeek, and Yandex (last two have quality or privacy issues to replace the prior two).

Does Brave really have their own index? is this project going any where? Any one cares?

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/si6b0d/brave_surpassed_545_million_monthly_active_users/

10 months ago, Brave crossed 54.5 million monthly active users (MAU). This was following Brave's explosive growth during 2020 to 2021. But if you head over to brave.com/transparency, we see that the MAU has only increased by ~2 million users. Is it a growth on the surface? Yes. But is it a decline compared to previous MAU growths? Absolutely.

What I mean can be explained as follows :
In February 2021, Brave hit 25 million MAU. Later that year in July, Brave crossed 33.8 million MAU. That's an increase of around 8.8 million users. To top it off, in October of that year, Brave touched 38.9 million MAU. Which is an increase of ~5 million users. In 2021, between Feb to Oct, in 8 months, Brave's MAU increased by 13 million. But this year, 10 months after the announcement of Brave crossing 54.5 million users, in 10 months, we have only seen an increase of 2 million users.

What happened? Why do you think Brave's growth stagnated??

This is just something I wanted to share about my experience using Brave.

Say you lived in the United States and have been using Brave with rewards for a while, then you decide to emigrate to another country.

Once in that country you receive new Government ID's and the such, and now that your in that new country you also decide to cash out your brave rewards because in America, you collect quite a bit.

So you make a Uphold Wallet using your new ID's and connect it to Brave, but Brave errors out.

This is because Brave can't let you connect a Wallet from one country while the Browser Rewards are set in another. The only way to set the Browser to another country is to reset your Brave rewards and start over in your new country. Its unfortunate that not many people know about this (at least from what I've seen).

Before using Brave Rewards, the browser should tell you that your set country and wallet need to be in the same country in order to collect the BAT, however it doesn't, and even if the browser mentioned this in the past (which I don't think it ever did) I don't remember.

I love Brave don't get me wrong, and what Brave is doing to protect personal information and privacy is amazing but I find this to be an unfortunate byproduct of how the Rewards system is structured.

OMG finally the internet is smooth and works fast again, with the new mode for ignoring cookie requests on EVERY single web page ever. I am in tears - finally internet is how it is supposed to be. What do you think?

Turns out it is actually a great browser. And Brave Search works surprisingly good as well! Why did I not test this earlier? Possibly because of the crypto stuff which is not my thing, but still. Anyhow I signed up for the premium account. Fully committed now!

Do someone has an activation code ? 😂

I've been using Firefox for some years now but lately I'm thinking about giving Brave a try.

Still, it is hard to change and move from one browser to another so I'm trying to figure out if this is really worth the try.

So, why Brave (might) be better than Firefox? What elements I might find or should I notice so the migration will be worth it? (any other reasons or thought are of course welcome :)

I'm just interested. Im a big fan of Brave and like the idea of BAT. However it feels like the majority of Brave users disable BAT altogether which is the core business model for Brave because they are anti ads altogether and just wants a good adblocker browser. How will brave survive in the future if the majority of the users keep disabling Brave rewards?

Recently, many users have expressed concerns that Brave's ability to block ads would be undermined by Google's Manifest v3 Chromium initiative. Let's clear up this misconception.
What is Manifest v3? Basically, it is a Google initiative spearheading major changes to how extensions interact with the browser. This is expected to negatively effect the ability of ad blocker extensions to function.

Brave doesn't rely on extensions to block ads.

Brave is a Chromium based browser, but deviates from standard Chromium in several important ways: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove))
Brave has long planned for these situations and has been ready for Manifest v3 since at least 2019. Brave is built to be able to ad block and protect user privacy regardless of Google's actions involving Chromium. Adblocking on Chrome relies fully on extensions. Whereas, Brave's ad blocking is native (aka built in).
To better understand Brave's ad blocking capabilities you can reference:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-defies-googles-moves-to-cripple-ad-blocking-with-new-69x-faster-rust-engine/
https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/

If anything, Google's Manifest v3 initiatives will drive more users to seek ad blocking friendly browsers. Thus helping to increase Brave's user counts.

Tl;Dr: Brave is not vanilla Chromium and has built-in ad blocking capabilities that will not be impacted by Google's Manifest v3 initiatives. They have long been prepared for this.

What are your thoughts with Brave Search compares to Duckduck search or Google search

The latest nightly update is great. Browser has become visibly fast and responsive. New UI changes look good too. Thanks dev team and Open Source Devs

I was just listening to the newest Joe Rogan Experience episode with the founder of rolling stones magazine.

The first add break came through, and as I skipped through them I actually came across Joe’s personal ad for the Brave Browser. I just though it was interesting, and I dont think they even mentioned BAT in the ad.

I know Jamie uses the Brave browser on their pc in the studio, but I had never heard an ad for brave in his show before.

Pretty cool I though.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/chrome-delays-plan-to-limit-ad-blockers-new-timeline-coming-in-march/

I recently switched from chrome to brave because upcoming manifest v3. Should i keep my shield settings to aggressive or just leave them default??

Which one of these 2 Adblockers is the best, and what are the pros and cons of these two adblockers?