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.
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.