Brave Passes 25 Million Monthly Active Users 📦

111    02 Feb 2021 18:01 by u/ruqs_user

50 comments

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New Brave user here. I'm one of those statistics. I swapped from being a quarter century Firefox/Netscape user after THAT Mozilla tweet.
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Yep, same. That article was the final straw. They had been on a downwards spiral for near decade now.
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By chance could you link that tweet? I've been using Brave for two years now and it is great.
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https://pic8.co/sh/yErbsG.png Sorry for the late reply.
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All good. I appreciate the response. Damn, Mozilla became Nazis
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#metoo lol
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BAT to the moooon
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Yeeee
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Swapped from Firefox when Mozilla published that anti-free speech article... That was the straw that broke the camels back. Maybe if they worked on their fucking browser instead of writing shitty blog posts I would have stayed.
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I’ve been using brave for a week or two and it performs remarkably well.
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Yep me too
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I just switched to brave. It was recommended to me by some users here and I love it so far
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If you're going to use Chromium then I recommend Ungoogled Chromium, unless you're into BAT. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium > ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services. > ungoogled-chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible. Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, ungoogled-chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium. > ungoogled-chromium features tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency
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What about extensions and bookmark synchronisation?
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Extensions can be added. No native bookmark sync, unless you can turn it on (?) but that would defeat the purpose of ungoogle. But I think last week google announced they were blocking sync for chromium forks anyway, so...
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You can import and export bookmarks yourself. I recommend keeping the back up in a file folder. Old school like
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[removed - friendly reminder that ruqqus does not respect user privacy and does censor free speech]
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The same as literally any other piece of compiled software.
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I am using brave right now. ^_^ I love the ad blocker and the fact that I can use my old chrome extensions. I just wish that I could easily send a tab to my phone and vise versa.
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I didn't understood about sending tab to phone but there's extension called Pushbullet in which you can send links and texts to the phone vice-versa. Maybe you can check that out.
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And I'm one of them!
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le shill lion
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I have used it for around a week now and it recieves full marks!
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Love brave been using it for like 2 years now!
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Switched to brave from Firefox myself last month. Currently only usefirefox for Facebook container until i can find something that blocks facebook off from the rest of my browser. Unless brave dors that already? Been using firefox since the mac power pc days and xp but brave is nice. Was worried about that smear piece that brave js just as bad but i wont know until we see more proof i suppose.
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I’ve been using it for a few months now and I’m liking it
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Congrats Brave!
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I do use brave, but isn't librewolf better? Was thinking to switch... Wish duckduckgo had a browser for desktop, it's awesome on mobile.
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[removed - friendly reminder that ruqqus does not respect user privacy and does censor free speech]
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Brave is good but Brave is based on Googles chromium engine. So basically Brave is slave of Google.
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Unfortunately there is no alternative right now to Chromium. Used to use Firefox but Mozilla is cucked to extreme proportions regarding censorship and wokeness narrative, can't do no more especially when its for me a shittier rendering engine. Safari is in the apple eco system otherwise I'd use that.
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I see. I also do use Brave both on PC and on Android. It is good.
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look man, what we the people have is numbers, if google sees its users drop, dosent matter where they go. thats gonna be alarming for them.
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I believe Google is moving away from Chromium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhWwEmJgMo
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So what will happen to chromium 💭
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It will remain an open source project. It just won't have nearly as much resources driving its development. But there are now a ton of developers who understand it well.
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> doesn't Brave sell your data? > Our company does not store any record of people’s browsing history. We don’t write any personal data to the blockchain. The only way a user’s data is stored by Brave is if the user has switched on Rewards or Sync. Disable the gay rewards and you will be fine.
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They push their own ads on you though. When I open Brave I’m frequently shown a pop up about buying bitcoin and shit. I don’t participate in their reward program.
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Do you mean the cards in the new tab? you can disable that easily. ![](https://i.imgur.com/NWJ1eWZ.png) ![](https://i.imgur.com/MwIRRAx.png)
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settings, you can turn it off first thing i did
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Who dosent? tbh, its free, and i get they need money.
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you go brave...
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If only Dissenter would do the same. Its arguably way better.
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Don't use dissenter. It is not safe when it comes to privacy.
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Elaborate?
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Checkout this [tweet](https://mobile.twitter.com/BraveSampson/status/1350685642846572546) from one of the brave browser developer. He is advising to not to use that browser.
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I’ll elaborate. There have been juicy fuckin vulnerabilities discovered in chromium over the last year that have been patched in most chromium-based browsers. Using an unpatched version is a bad idea generally
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I'm a Firefox user, any reaosns/benefits for me to move to Brave (other than thar Mozilla tweet down bellow) Also hasn't brave done some slightly sketchy stuff by redirecting some site links to their affiliated versions or have they stopped that?
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If you set Brave up correctly in the settings and add a few extensions then it performs nearly as well as Firefox for the privacy conscience, and you have the benefit of a better browser engine. Brave feels more responsive, faster, uses less memory. There is a good article on gHacks.net that explores the settings you need to change to get the most privacy. I think the 'slightly sketchy stuff' you might have heard about is related to their cybercurrency that is completely disabled by default (you must opt-in) and you need never interact with.
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I like Eich