Once you have some BAT, you can then tip users or websites on the web as a form of support. Payments come in the form of a cryptocurrency known as the Basic Attention Token, or BAT for short. Wait, what? Doesn’t Brave have an ad blocker? What’s this about ads, then? Brave is a privacy-focused browser, but it also has a “rewards” system which users can opt in and get paid to accept privacy-friendly advertisement notifications. It’s pretty rare these days that I have to toggle something, but they do happen. However, the more people report on web compatibility issues with the shield settings on Brave software’s forums, the better the shields become at not breaking sites. When I first started using Brave in mid 2019, I often had to turn off shields to get some sites to work correctly. You can toggle certain options on or off if a site gives you issues. This is because the blocker itself is written in the Rust programming language and is much, much faster than anything else.Īt the end of the address/URL bar is the Brave icon, which brings up your “shields” that show you which protections are activated and what has been blocked. One of the benefits of the ad blocker built into the browser is it is faster than any ad blocking extension you could install. You can really see how optimized or unoptimized some programs are.
#THE BRAVE BROWSER REVIEW SOFTWARE#
While most modern machines are all fast enough for anything you throw at them, it’s interesting to see the performance of software on machines with less beefy specs. I have a rather old laptop that I use at my work with 4 GB of ram and a pretty old Intel core i5 processor.
I’ve tested various other browsers (Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Firefox) and none of them match the speed of Brave. And by that, I mean it feels light and fast. If you’re coming from Firefox, there’s a good chance you can find extensions that have the same functionality. Any extensions you currently rely on in Google Chrome you can safely use in Brave.
#THE BRAVE BROWSER REVIEW FULL#
If that’s the case, allow me to talk about my next point.īecause the Brave browser is built on Chromium, that means it can take full advantage of the Chrome extension store. In my experience, this has not been much of an issue unless you’re the type of person that absolutely wants to see zero ads when they surf. This means you would still see ads on for example because their ads are served through their own network and not a third party. It blocks THIRD-PARTY ads, but not necessarily first party ones. See, by default Brave will block trackers, ads, etc.
While there are other browsers out there that ship with a built-in ad blocker (Opera), Brave has a unique take on blocking ads. For anyone questioning why go with Brave over a standard Chromium install, be sure to check this list. While not an exhaustive list, the developers have a page detailing what has been removed or enhanced to their browser compared to Chromium/Chrome. Some people have argued that Firefox is the better privacy browser with the right configuration, but I like to judge browsers based on their “out of the box” or default settings.Ī comparison chart of privacy features of browsers out of the boxĪs it stands now, Brave performs similarly to Chrome, if not faster.
#THE BRAVE BROWSER REVIEW PLUS#
At the end of 2018, Brave switched from its custom Electron app to being built on top of Chromium (the open source version of Chrome) plus additional enhancements.īrave browser prides itself on being a privacy-focused browser out of the box as well as focused on performance as a result of the built-in tracker and ad blockers. Making a long story short, development on the Brave browser was slow and steady, but not fast enough to satisfy the developers themselves. The old Brave UI, originally an electron app, codenamed “Muon”
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