Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474842
You can install uBlock Origin in 10 seconds from the GitHub release page (see previous link shared). This is vastly better than anything I've seen for ad-blocking.
A Brave fork meant to address this issue. Time will tell.
Also that just makes me trust them more – they are the only browser vendor that are trying to find business models that don't involve selling my data or selling out to someone who does.
Edit: I feel it is slow because it has extra bloat added. Like I said, take my comments here with a grain of salt because I'm a very biased power user. I respect the efforts of these developers regardless of what project it is, the focus on privacy and building something different is truly awesome.
Ditto for developer / power-user experience – it's still chromium. Just with an ad-blocker written in Rust built-in and some other features.
Data or stop spreading FUD. There is nothing "slow" about Brave.