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Brave browser app review
Brave browser app review












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In some areas, we felt the design of the Browser lacked continuity and could use improving.The development team is quite extensive featuring a variety of academic researchers from top universities, members with history working for Microsoft, Khan Academy, Apple and AOL, as well as founding huge projects like Mozilla and creating JavaScript.The code is all open-source and available on GitHub for anyone to verify.What's more, private browsing tabs open in TOR - amazing! Brave automatically upgrades all HTTP to HTTPS encryption where possible, and browsing data is stored on your device not servers. For example, you can configure settings to automatically clear cache, history, cookies etc on close, easily control your Brave Shield settings to block/allow ads, trackers, scripts, etc on a page, site or browser wide basis. Security and privacy are at the forefront of Brave's vision, offering unparalleled levels of built-in user control.As it is built on the open source platform Chromium, all settings and data can be imported directly from Chrome. Moving from Chrome to Brave was completely seamless.The settings are fully customizable too! This creates an entirely new revenue model for publishers that moves away from often irrelevant ads, in turn improving user experience. This can be done in several ways including automated contributions split by the percentage of time you spend on each site, fixed monthly contributions to sites, direct tips when visiting a site or tipping on Reddit, GitHub and Twitter. Publishers also stand to gain as users can now directly reward them for producing good content.You can choose to view a min of 1 and max of 5 ads per hour. Users not only save, but can actively earn money through opting in to view ads through Brave Rewards, receiving 70% of advertisers profits.On average, pages load up to 8x faster! That said, Brave on desktop is reportedly 2-3x faster than Chrome or Firefox. Given that up to 50% of monthly data goes to loading ads and trackers, which in turn can reduce battery life by up to 21%, Brave for mobile can save both time and money. From the user perspective, one of the greatest advantages of Brave currently seem to be on mobile.














Brave browser app review