There's nothing redeeming about it other than performance, it seems to be a resource hog which might explain (or not) why it's the #1 in browser benchmarks everywhere.Ĭhrome has always had privacy issues, it's one of the least private browsers out there and this bothered me. I was a Chrome user first (go ahead, report me) and to be fair, Chrome is a nice stable browser but that's as far as it goes. I've been using this browser exclusively and during this time, I never bothered installing Chrome or Chromium which were my primary browsers before Chromium decided to kill sync functionality and Chrome just totally nuked my privacy. The opt-in nature will limit WDP's usefulness, but Brave is clearly hoping to find enough participants that it narrows gaps with heavyweight rivals.This week, I completed one year with the Brave Browser (and the Brave ecosystem: Brave Search, Brave Talk, BATs in general). The feature is anonymous and makes the data 'unlinkable,' rendering it useless to ad customers or hackers. Brave has launched a Web Discovery Project that lets volunteers contribute data to improve Brave Search's overall quality. While its independent index won't necessarily be robust as Google's, Brave is betting that the default position will significantly boost adoption. It doesn't track you, your search history or what you've clicked. The change in defaults is available across desktop releases as well as Android and iOS.īrave Search is effectively billed as the anti-Google engine.

Your browser will keep its existing search engine settings, and you can always pick Google or another competitor if you're so inclined. It'll also supplant DuckDuckGo in Germany and Qwant in France, with more countries seeing the switch in the 'next several months.'

As of today (October 19th), Brave will use the engine as its browser's default search tool, replacing Google in the US, UK and Canada. Brave is very confident in its privacy-centric search engine - so much so that it's giving Google the boot.

Brave search browser