Brave
Fast and secure, ad and tracker blocking browser.
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- Developed by Brave Software Inc
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.7
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The sheer joy of using this browser
I have used it since its inception, is a chromium open-source browser with a rust ad-blocker that improves over time, sometimes it can break sites but that's the price you pay for having many blocked scripts.
These are my stats just for a couple of months of usage:
Trackers & ads blocked 514,084
Bandwidth saved - 6.32GB
I use all the browsers for developing purposes but brave is my main browser used for day-to-day browsing.
The only thing that's truly special about brave, is that it comes with an alternative AD system to google ads, which promotes privacy over building a user web profile.
People who know about privacy know this is b.s. - there is no more anonymity in Brave than in Chrome if you know what to do and (on the other side) when you know what to track. As for the claim on their homepage no less than it is 20x faster than Chrome or Firefox, b.s., as well I tested it and it doesn't load even 2x times faster.
The biggest con is that the wooper-dooper integrated ad filter is so bad that it breaks pages while at the same time allowing dozens of pop ups and pop unders that even the most basic extension for Firefox or Chrome can block perfectly.
Also, full of small crappy details, such as not being able to change the new tab page which shows a new random image over the interwebs (with no possibility to select the thematic/category at least) and a bean-counter's wet dream of numbers showing how many ads it (absolutely imperfectly) blocked (this tracks all the ads, pretty ironic for a browser bragging about privacy). Just to be clear: this disastrous bloatware new tab is NON NEGOTIABLE, you cannot disable it, not even through under the hood flags. Nothing. Better love to see every time a crappy stock photo and how many ads Brave failed to completely block, Bucko.
In summary, much ado about nothing. At this time it's neither more safe nor faster than any big name browser.
Feature-rich, privacy-focused browser that is fast and convenient to use.
Secure
Brave is faster than Firefox and Chrome & Respects privacy but I have a problem with Uphold and Brave Rewards due to sanctions.
It is another web that markets itself on privacy but barely delivers. The crypto domain intergration may be the only up side