I installed Brave a month ago, since I read articles claiming it was one of the most secure browser.
I had a great experience, it’s really fast. Since it’s based on chromium, it’s not too destabilizing to make the transition(I moved from Chrome and liked it, I was concerned about privacy of Chrome). I like the integrated ad-blocker and like the idea behind Brave rewards.
There’s also some less great things. First, the video ads on YouTube do not have Skip button when shields are down, I know that the problem is known and a fix will be up soon. But this problem made me go temporarily on Firefox, because I watch a lot of videos on Youtube (I plan to change to Brave when the fix is available).
Also, I did a test for the web tracking protection and had some interesting results.
I did my test on the site https://panopticlick.eff.org/ and the result proved that although the web tracking protection is great, some improvements could be made. Here’s the results.
BTW, clearing browsing data between tests should give you a better result --> “nearly unique”. Testing is also dependent on other privacy/anti-tracking extensions you might have installed on Brave. Less is better in my experience, and relying on built-in features as much as possible.
Hello @technical-glove,
We’ve recently worked with the EFF to update Panopticlick. Panopticlick’s results now correctly reflect Brave’s privacy protections. The site will now show desktop and Android Brave users that they have a very high level of privacy protection. We’re currently working to enable these protections for iOS users too.
Go to https://panopticlick.eff.org/ and test it out.
