Thanks, that was helpful!
Now i'm going to be singing this song all day ... thanks a lot! =)

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If you care about educated answer, here it is.

"Brave" is called "brave" for a reason. Its goal is a very specific model of how current "ad" mechanism works and this is this browser's top priority - and everything rotates around it.

Why this is important, at least in "brave"-maker opinion, is because big software like that needs man-power, which means it needs money. So "brave" is also about money. How other big projects do it:
- Firefox is paid to exist through sponsorship, today by people with political agenda, but also it gets some income from google.
- Chrome is paid by google, because its basically a tracking-friendly software and google makes money through serving you ads.

Now, users don't really like ads at all, which perfectly makes sense, because most of google ads (99,99%) are shoved into the face and is a time waste.

Which means - "brave" has basically a new idea, which users have three options:
- opt-in for ads and actually receive part of the money for looking at ads
- opt-in for ads and sponsor some organizations with that money instead of getting them
- opt-out from ads completely.
3 is only possible because of how innovative the 1+2 are.

But now, from user perspective and from stand of reality:
1. users don't really like ads
2. they want software which gives them: performance + flexibility. Brave may deliver 1 because of how technically apt its developers are, but doesn't deliver the later - because its, again, centered around its idea.

So, this is why I am not using it. In my opinion choice of browser does not really matter much, if you can get a decent ad-blocker (like kernel-level module or similar to pie-hole), enough RAM in your machine and its flexible enough for you.

I've been using Brave for about 6 months as part of my plan to become Google free. It's pretty good, but there are definitely still some pretty big bugs. Often the browser uses twice as much RAM and CPU as Chrome - sometimes causing 100% utilization, and while I love the account-less bookmark syncing between browsers, the success of this is pretty hit and miss.

Vivaldi seems nice, I'll have to check it out.

Ironically I just got an update notification from Vivaldi. They just released version 2.0, which fixed a lot of major issues. I still find Brave to be a more visually appealing browser, but Vivaldi is also pretty cool.

I switched to Brave a couple of weeks ago after reading about privacy concerns over chrome's new update (v69). So far it's been a great experience, it has a really simple hassle-free adblock and it even allows the use of tor network private tabs if that's your thing.

I have also been using Brave on my phone since its release and their adblocker is pretty effective for mobile sites as well. So yeah give it a try, they seem to be genuinely concerned about privacy and it's based on chromium so the switch should be as smooth as it gets.