Mobile. I tried Mull but my fingerprint was very unique (according to EFF). Brave randomizes it, so I should be more anonymous.
Chrome-based. Much as I want to use a Gecko-based browser just to offset how much Chrome is used, many sites and extensions work better on Chrome-based browsers.
Brave Search: I’ve used DuckDuckGo (which is a lil’ sketch lately) and Startpage, but I like the result from Brave Search better. I could change that to be my default in another browser, but I haven’t seen a reason.
Security. As far as I can tell, Brave gets a lot of hate baking their crypto-currency into the browser. But I was easily able to turn off all reminders and UI elements of it without issue. I’m not earning anything; I have no Brave account. I don’t feel pressured into their crypto in any way, so it doesn’t bother me. It still seems like a very secure browser to my knowledge, unless some debacle I missed has marred their reputation. I don’t really want to go through the trouble of hardening Firefox when Brave does it out of the gate.
If my reasons are wrong, please correct me (with sources please since I have seen too many people go “Brave bad, lol. Crypto.”). I’d also love to try out a new browser if there are better options. I’ve heard great things about LibreWolf, but that is desktop only afaik and I haven’t seen if it does better than Brave on fingerprinting.
It’s crypto bro trash. Why use it when Firefox exists?
Several reasons.
If my reasons are wrong, please correct me (with sources please since I have seen too many people go “Brave bad, lol. Crypto.”). I’d also love to try out a new browser if there are better options. I’ve heard great things about LibreWolf, but that is desktop only afaik and I haven’t seen if it does better than Brave on fingerprinting.