Essentially, if you’ve used Chrome, FireFox, or Opera at any point in time in the last say, five years.

It’s easy to use and similar in most respects to most other browsers out there.

“And 20 per cent of this is time spent on loading things that are trying to learn more about you.”īrave is fast, and does the job. The Brave browser according to its design team, is between 1.5 to 4 times faster than its competitors because it gets rid of adverts and crucially, all the embedded tracking code. “Up to a whopping 60 per cent of page load time is caused by the underlying ad technology that loads into various places each time you hit a page on your favorite news site,” say Brave. The Android app version also recently crossed the million download mark as well. While it started as something of a niche browser, Brave has gone from strength to strength since its launch last year. Brave does show ads, it’s just that they are pre-approved, there’s not that many of them, they don’t track your data, and they don’t slow down page loading times. Yes, of course you can also add ad blockers to pretty much any browser going, but it’s nice to have it built in. As a browser it claims that as well as blocking intrusive web page adverts that chew up bandwidth and cause web page slow downs, it also blocks website trackers, and keeps users data more secure by sharing less of their web activity data. The best thing about Brave is that it has an ad-blocker built into it and it runs by default. The second is that he created the popular and well-known JavaScript. The first, as mentioned above, is he co-founded the not for profit Mozilla organisation, and consequently Firefox. The mind behind Brave though is one Brendan Eich, and he has a rather singular vision for what Brave could one day become, and his hopes that it could start a revolution in web browsing.Įich is notable for a couple of reasons.

Brave: Faster loading, peace of mind, and created by a nice guy.

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