Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User

Good. Brave is a solid browser.

As someone who used Firefox continuously from when it used to be called “Mozilla” until early 2020 Brave is vastly superior.

-better UI/UX

-awesome ad block built in and by default, no need for extensions

-noticeably faster

-free of the political WTF-tier decisions of the organization backing Firefox.

Edit: since when do I need to Reddit space here? Maybe I don’t post lists enough and it was always this way?

Edit2: Can anyone explain why more and more comment sections require double-spacing to nest properly? Seems like a HN-relevant question.

And yet, one of the main features to benefit publishers is dead on arrival - for example I get paid by Google AdSense about 300 times more than Brave's Basic Attention Token on a monthly basis. They do a great job at blocking ads. They do a good job at pushing their own crypto ads but their Brave Rewards idea of rewarding publishers based on a monthly contribution from the community never quite worked because, really people want to block ads and are not interested in paying for the content via a wallet that requires you to exchange hard cash for tokens that you can't withdraw and can't control where it goes.

Actually moved from being a long time Google Chrome user to Edge Chromium.

I think Brave is a GREAT option for this scenario:

Typical Chrome user decides they want to start moving away from Google. They rely on a ton of Chrome extensions so don't want to switch to Firefox or Safari or some other walled garden.

Brave is a good drop in replacement for Chrome as it's compatible with the app store and runs on Chromium.

Add uBlock Origin and EFF Privacy Badger, they're in great ad-blocking shape.

The ads are opt-out, Brave Rewards is also opt-out and you can even turn off the button for it in the app tray. You can stop the "new tab" ads and also turn off the "cards" for their crypto stuff.

I heard allegations of including their own affiliate links in typed URLs. I don't care one iota. If it doesn't raise my price then that's between Brave and whatever company.

I don't care if they are destroying the internet ad industry. There are more important things to worry about like not letting my personal or professional life become the subject of nation state spy campaigns and Big Tech overlordship.

Brave needs to provide it's own app store.

I used Firefox for 19 years. Just left for Edge in August 2021. They just kept cutting features. I'm not someone that thinks alternate rendering engines are relevant... userbases are, that's where power comes from. I also wanted to move to my native browser, get the benefits of the billion dollars pumped into Chromium, and move to a major vendor for longterm support and advanced features.

That said, in my quest to find a new home, Brave came in a close 2nd. It's the only non-niche browser other than FF that's open source. Open source transparency with a focus on privacy? Everyone should be signing up by default. And the only one of those two built on Chromium, which fighting ~70% of the web on that has become pretty ridiculous. Brave is the only place if you want the best of every world.

I am firmly in the Edge camp, because other things matter to me as well that I won't go on at length here, but Brave is the only other browser I'll be keeping tabs on.

Congrats to Eich and the squad!

I would gladly switch but Firefox Containers are irreplaceable.

Now my main browser for 6 months. Running with uBlock Orgin, it's the bees knees.

I would not trust my browsing to someone with their history. I'd even pick Edge before Brave but for now I use Firefox and I doubt that will change.

for me its a no-brainer, i spend 6-8 hours on the browser p/d and with brave i'm getting bat tokens in exchange

all browsers are shady, ff paying ceo huge sums, chrome being evil, brave ceo political beliefs - so at least im getting something in return

i will never use edge, microsoft is and always has been an evil company - and no amount of virtue signalling will change that

Brave blocks advertisements very aggressively and lets us tone down it to uBO level.

Brave is also notorious for not listening to user feature requests. Vivaldi is more receptive.

I hope there is a [maximum Rust and minimum JS] browser. Our world of problems would get solved.

Vivaldi is the better option. Please change my mind.

How? Browsers need to die. Move all Js to apps and have browsers just display images/video/text in the way that we have found applies to 99% of modern use cases. The only reason Js existed was to afford more flexibility in the time that we didn’t know yet how the web would be used. Move all the code into apps where sandboxing/reputation can handle the security issues more effectively than Js.