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Appearance
No options to customize apperance, and make the bookmarks appear on the home page, for instance.
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Free/libre software
Released to the community under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), this software respect the FSF's four freedoms, including the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute with or without modification freely.
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Quite intrusive advertisements, especially on Windows
Advertisements keep popping up in the Windows notification center. Must opt in to ad system, but no option to disable sound for ad notifications only.
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Developed by creator of Mozilla and Javascript
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Useless built-in 'ad blocker'
Its adblocker is useless to be honest. Since the extension uBlock Origin is a great blocker by itself, the Brave ad blocker does not block every ad!
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Built-in adblocking
Other apps make it difficult to block ads without rooting your phone or going through unoptimized add-on stores, but Link Bubble blocks them out of the box, making browsing much less crowded. Contains an optional "Allow Brave Acceptable Ads" So you can support the site you truly enjoy.
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Promotes search engines that track users such as Bing and Google
Google Search is the first search engine on the list.
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Option to disable additional privacy concerns
Like fingerprint tracking.
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Uses much RAM
1 tab, 400+ RAM, also it depends on what website you're on.
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Takes care of privacy and security
Takes privacy seriously by blocking ads and trackers and not tracking people's searches. Things like HTTPS everywhere and no tracking are standard with Brave. In most other browsers, things like these are optional at best.
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Download package is very large considering it as a browser
Brave takes on a lot of roles besides just browsing so it is understandably a larger file.
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Brave is an Ad company
Brave Software is a for-profit company (though users must opt into Brave ads and Brave doesn't track users.)
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Creator support limited
Most creators don't use it and so will not profit from the crypto system.
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Tor mode is not available on mobile version
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Bookmark management
Bookmark management is not as seamless as other browsers.
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Dumbed down in the latest versions
In previous versions, Brave felt more like Firefox. Now it's been dumbed down, it feels more like Chrome/Chromium. For example: There's no menu-bar.
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Poor customer support
Only customer support available in Brave community. Mods usually does not help.
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Doesn't remove search engine ads
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Still dependent on Google
Since it's based on Chrome.
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Bookmark button located on the left side of the URL bar and can't be moved
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Same security-holes as Chrome
On the desktop: Brave uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-holes as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a webpage that will hack Chrome may also hack Brave. However, Brave has security features that Chrome doesn't (such as a built-in adblocker). Those features will stop many hacking attempts.
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The iPhone version has some odd behavior
On reopening Brave, it often returns you to the "search results" page, rather than the webpage you had previously browsed to from the search results page. Might just be a specific configuration.
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No reader view
Can be accessed with an extension though.
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