The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

Re:The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the ... by zrobotics on Saturday March 07, 2020 @10:06AM (#22511824)

I don't use it on desktop, but it's the best android browser I have used. For whatever reason, Firefox is a battery hog on my current phone, so I switched to brave. Although I agree with this article, the crypto model they have is scammy at best.

I should really switch browsers on my phone; while brave works OK the fact that their revenue model is broken should signal that they will likely need to do something shady in the future. I never opted in to BAT simply because I figured that maybe 1% of the sites I visit would be opted in to the program. Plus, I'm not going back to watching ads.

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Re:The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the ... by fastball on Saturday March 07, 2020 @01:11PM (#22513010)

I'm not sure you understand how the Brave/BAT/Ads dynamic operates.

Brave with the BAT features turned on still uses its builtin adblock.

From there, I think you need to state a bit more clearly how is their revenue model broken.

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Re:The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the ... by EastSmith on Saturday March 07, 2020 @11:40AM (#22512434)

Duckduckgo has a browser for android based on Chromium.

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Re:The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the ... by jsjddbbwj on Saturday March 07, 2020 @10:06AM (#22511831)

Maybe try Edge.

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