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> And people can shit on Brave (Eich's next browser venture) but the reality is that they're doing a pretty incredible job.

It depends on how you look at it. https://www.w3counter.com/trends

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Brave has the same user agent as Chrome to avoid being treated differently or blocked outright because of the built-in adblocker and anti-tracking features. It counts towards Chrome in web analytics.

We hide in Chrome's user-agent (too many sites break if you vary it but otherwise are Chromium-based). We're detectable by many means but that site and the other ones such as statcounter do not count us. I post our monthly user counts on "X", I just did September's stats. Here is living thread of threads:

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1711480079094837273

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