For the past week, I've switched to using Brave as my primary web browser. I first started using it on my computer and then within the next day, I installed it onto my phone. On my computer at least, I'd uninstalled Chrome completely.
My week with the browser has been overall a great one. I've now signed into all my accounts on it so I haven't needed to use any other browser. One of the biggest things that I've enjoyed is the built-in adblocker. I haven't ran into any of those annoying "Please turn off your adblocker" messages that I often ran into when I was using Adblock Plus with Chrome. Brave really cares about your privacy and it shows.
One quick note, speed has never been a problem for me with this browser. It's fast and responsive and has been that way since day one for me. I'd say that it does feel faster for me than Chrome did.
Lastly, let's talk about the BAT (Basic Attention Tokens) that I've earned by enabling non-intrusive ads between both my computer and phone. In my last article, my only criticism of the browser was that it seemed like I'd lost some BAT. It turns out that it was simply a visual glitch and it came back later that day. Since then, no further issues like that have happened.
Over the past week on my computer itself, I've earned 4.6 BAT which is worth $1.22 at the time of this writing.
Over the past week on my phone, I've earned 3.0 BAT which is worth $0.80 at the time of this writing.
So just for being on my devices and surfing the internet (which I do everyday anyway), I've earned $2.00 in the past week. That's not a lot, but no other browser pays you to use it. As I said before, if you don't think you're earning enough for it to be worth it for you to see those ads, you can disable those ads all-together. You have full control over it.
My honest review of Brave can be described in one word, incredible. I'm getting paid to surf the internet which I do anyways. It has great built-in security features including the best adblocker that I've ever used before. It's faster for me than Chrome was and has the ability to add Chrome add-ons so you won't have to make any compromises in switching to it.
I won't be using Chrome again any time soon!
