One thing Brave does legitimately have over standard Chrome and Chromium on Android is that it does include it's own ad-blocker (Which can be turned on or off, or I guess set to participate in what I mentioned in point 3).
On Android, Chrome and Chromium offer no native extensions. Some people don't care about that, and Firefox isn't as customizeable UI wise as it once was, but it is still more customizeable than Brave, and, in all fairness, basically every Chromium-based browser on Windows, except Vivaldi, which has a lot of options for changing the UI. Firefox and Vivaldi on desktop can both be modified in that direction and in other directions if you so choose.
So, if you prefer a different interface, like maybe something on desktop that's a little more "classic" looking with more buttons and dropdown menus and such, you're out of luck. The Brave user interface (UI) is very similar to Chrome's and hard to modify extensively. Users can opt-out and just block all ads, but you can do that on lots of browsers (Like the two I linked to) with extensions, and sometimes without. Still, many users wonder why they are helping Brave at the expense of the website owner financially. Now, one could argue that, hey, millions of browser users out there use content-blockers or ad-blockers and the website owners get no revenue from those views (Though some of said users might forward links to other users who don't use ad-block, indirectly generating some profit, or directly sign-up for premium membership or donate to a website), and that something is better than nothing. Also, it puts Brave in a power position with those websites where they can say "We take whatever cut we want, you can accept our terms and get what we determine your cut to be, or get nothing. Brave says they will give a cut back to the website, but only if the website asks, and since Brave is a relatively small browser, not every website asks. The entire premise of the browser, and this they are open about, is to replace the native ads on websites (Or the ad networks the website owners sign up for and try to have displayed) with Brave's own ads.
Actually, that users are potentially being exposed to things that they don't know about, to me is worse than if they upfront said "Here's what we're doing", because the latter would let the user make an informed choice, whereas the former does not. That means, I think, logically, that there is a reasonable possibility that they are testing new schemes today and that people just haven't discovered them yet, and that if they are discovered and disliked by the users, they may be stopped and new ones will be attempted. Whether you believe it is unintentional or not is, again, up to you as a user, but the sheer number of times this stuff has happen lead me to believe they are constantly testing to see what users will notice or let them get away with, and pulling back only if it is noticed and there is a backlash. Every time they are caught doing something like that and it becomes publicized, they say it was unintentional, and change it. This may or may not be a "deal killer" for any given individual user, but it is something some people may want to know.īrave has been caught in various schemes such as where when you type a URL to a cryptocurrency link, the browser at one point would redirect you to a different URL that generates them money. It's not explicit, they won't tell a liberal not to use their browser, but the circumstances under which the browser came about, it's name, and it's leadership send a certain message IMO. They have aligned themselves implicitly with conservative politics and issues. Last question first, two browsers I like.
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