I've used Brave since March, and I'm really not impressed. For a browser that tries to be different, it's incredible how little consideration has been given to things that annoy users and that could probably be trivial to remove.

To be more specific, my issues with Brave are:

- Still uses the Chrome Web Store as main store

- Does not have an easy way to load packaged extensions from 3rd party sources

- Even after adding them as unpacked, you still get the same annoying popup every time you open the browser.

- I received notices that "My account was waiting for a deposit" the entire time, even though I never allocated any money to anyone

- Tipping amounts are fixed

I always saw Brave as "not chrome, and not as much of a change as Firefox", but their approach seem lazy, features halfassed at best and the sneaky anti-features that Chrome has been adding to push users to lock into Google stuff (see all my remarks about extensions) not addressed at all.

I'm using Firefox as main browser now, and I haven't been missing brave once.