Brave browser - what's the catch?

[A993LAD]

Just installed Brave after seeing a recommendation on here.

Wow it seems brilliant.

Youtube without ads! Web pages loading quicker without ads too!

Fantastic. How do they cover their costs? what are they doing with my data.

Conscious of the "if you're not paying you're the product" thing

[eeLee]

they just laid off 9% of their workforce.
It's an OK browser, I find it clunky and vertical tabs are not that good on it.

[WrekinCrew]

uBlock Origin working again on Firefox (well, I get maybe 0.25 seconds of an ad) but presumably Youtube will retaliate.

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173...

[Derek Smith]

I've been using it for a few years now. No complaints. Recently I've been getting some moans from YouTube, but no action so far.

[dundarach]

I use firefox with adblock, never had an advert in youtube (logged in).

[TheLurker]

I use it as my default browser. They make their money from ads still, it's just you're in control of them. They encourage you to view them by paying you if you enable them.

Don't expect to get rich though...

[the-norseman]

I've been using it for a few years on Linux, Android and iPhone. Prefer it to Firefox, Firefox on Linux is fine but on Android I found a lot of the pages didn't load properly.

[Baldchap]

Allegedly it's one of the few that doesn't rely on Google for searches (because most non-Google search engines still use Google), so from a privacy perspective that's a win.

[the-norseman]

Baldchap said:

Allegedly it's one of the few that doesn't rely on Google for searches (because most non-Google search engines still use Google), so from a privacy perspective that's a win.

Yep, it uses Brave Search, it did use DuckDuckGo.

I sometimes find that the search results aren't great though and I often have to open Google search instead.

[rdjohn]

I started to use Brave a while back. Since last week, I can no longer get into PH using it.

I get the link but before I can login, I get the GPRD pop up, but cannot accept, or reject it and move on.

Has something changed recently? I am currently using Chrome and it seems to make my iPad very sticky, with what looks like some very simple advertising that should not cause problems.

TIA