I’m sorry, is it that weird of a feeling to want a company that pretty much has a single successful product to invest in it when it’s an important part of the internet and in constant usage decline?

A lot of people are saying they suffer the same and me and my friend have completely different devices with different Android flavours.

It doesn’t seem to be what you are saying.

Android 13. Looking in the other replies, it seems pretty wide spread.

If nobody cared, nobody would have replied in the first place.

Also, must be sad to decide to engage based on the karma farm you’ll get, but good for you I guess…?

You should stop using products for ethical reasons

Yes, that’s why I don’t use Firefox. I don’t like companies that give their CEOs the entirety of goodwill donations and use the vast majority of the rest of the money they make on companies with empty descriptions to give speeches and whatever instead of really investing in their technology to stop having stupid bugs and maybe even be better enough than Chrome to give normies a reason to use it.

1. Don’t use Brave rewards, so don’t care.

2. See 1.

3. So like any for-profit company? Bad, but don’t care.

4. It’s very brain dead to call the VPN service spyware. Besides, you’re on Windows, you have a lot more spyware to worry about first.

5. Yeah, don’t care. If we go examining every company by if their leaders are morally good or not, we are gonna come very empty.

But do you know what I care about? A browser that actually fucking works on mobile and doesn’t crash every other time I open it up.

Yep, I have it on my Poco F5 with MIUI and a friend that has a Galaxy S23 with stock OS also has the same issue.

Idk what that guys is complaining about. I’m running Brave with also uBlock Origin (for the ads the native blocker doesn’t detect) and right now on Youtube the native ad blocker catches everything and runs just fine.

Sure, they just need to fix their annoying bugs on Android.

Everytime I leave a tab open and switch to another app, it’s a 50/50 whether I return to a black screen and am forced to restart it or it just works fine.

I’m using right now a Poco F5 with a 7+ gen 2 and, besides gpu intensive stuff (playing Genshin Impact on lowest settings doesn’t always give 60fps), I can’t tell the difference from more powerful phones.

Never said they didn’t, but Firefox does as well and the duality of criteria is astonishing.

Urr durr Brave bad Firefox perfect and always good.

/s

I don’t think it’s as much reducing performance, as it is stamping out poorly optimized cpu calls that make it work harder than it should.

Several reviewers I saw all said that the heat up issue is not consistent with doing performance work. One of them spent the whole day shooting 4k in the sun and the phone was fine. Then he went to use spotify while in airplane mode (literally on a plane) and the phone just started heating up for no reason.

Unfortunately, yes.

Like pretty much everything the CCP does, it’s “rules for thee, but not for me”.

My guess is that they are so used to controlling their people they probably think it should work for everything else.

You guys need keys?

Yeah, sometimes if I haven’t booted up my laptop in a while, I’ll run pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring to get the keys I need.

I’m 99% sure they wouldn’t pass a safety inspection.

I believe Brave is the most private chromium browser, at least with the installation defaults.

As for the controversies with the company, there were some at the beginning stages, but I haven’t heard anything new in quite a while.

Regarding the crypto, vpn, etc bloat, I use Brave on all my devices and all I have to do is hide that stuff after the installation and I’ve never been bothered by pop-ups or similar annoyances. I don’t think it’s more annoying to remove than having to remove the recommended sites and Pocket with Firefox.

Since you want private browsing, I would also say that a big plus for Brave is that it has built-in Tor browser.

I believe that they emit less CO2 compared to gasoline powered cars, but a lot more nitrates, which are carcinogenic.