First of all, let's start with the fact that the Brave browser is completely made on the basis of Chromium (on the Blink engine) and has a settings interface and main menu items that are quite familiar to many. It was developed by Mozilla Project Corporation co-founder and JavaScript creator Brendan Eich. As for now, you can download Brave for Windows for free without any payments on our website. 

It's a free and open source web browser - so anyone can, if they're smart enough, check for NSA "bookmarks" and compile their own version with whatever tweaks they see fit.

The main feature of the browser, postulated by the creators, is  complete ad blocking . However, if desired, the user can enable a setting in which the browser will unobtrusively recommend its own ads based on the user's interests. Advertising will pop up in the lower right corner in the form of a small elongated die. The user himself can decide whether to click on it. If the user clicks on the ad and studies it, the browser rewards the user with a Bat token that can be traded on the exchange or gifted to the content creator.

Ars Technica was skeptical about the moral and legal aspects of Brave's behavior in advertising, calling this behavior a "double jackpot" and adding: "Brave looks like a robbery." Well, of course - Brave does not allow advertisers to profit from readers with impunity, and instead offers a model of transparent and user-controlled display of ads (which can be completely disabled if you so desire).

Previously, this opportunity was available only to foreign users, but relatively recently, users in Russia and the CIS countries received this opportunity. In the rewards settings, you can set the frequency of showing ads per hour from one to five. You can view the history of the ads shown to you and evaluate it - or turn off the ads completely.

This is the only browser that has implemented a system of "rewards" (rewards) for useful user actions.

I must say right away that the browser does not mine on your equipment and loads the system in much the same way as a regular browser based on Chromium. Since the browser blocks ads, it is ahead of all competitors in terms of page loading speed and is the fastest browser at the moment.

The Brave ecosystem provides the ability to share tokens and reward content creators. For example, you can support the author of a Twitter or YouTube channel. The developers plan to create an Internet linking sites to a reward system for authors who post content on them, as well as resource visitors. The purpose of the browser is to create conditions in which everyone would benefit - both the creator and the consumer of the content.

Another convenient feature of the browser is the presence of a  private Tor and DuckDuckGo window , thanks to which, with one click, you can access sites that are blocked in the territory of a particular country. This eliminates the need to open the application and turn on the VPN or install third-party plugins.

The mobile version of the browser is available on both the App Store and Google Play. They also have the ability to earn rewards and open a private Tor window, which saves a lot of time by not having to constantly turn on the VPN. Just open a new tab.

Moreover, there is a separate item in the settings, thanks to which you can synchronize browsers on different devices and transfer history and other saves. The whole process goes through two-factor authentication, so supposedly you don’t have to worry about your data.

By the way, mobile versions of the browser are developed first of all, a stable release was available for iOS and Android already in 2017, stable versions (not beta) for desktops (Windows, Linux, MacOS, BSD) came out later.

Otherwise, this is the same Chrome browser, only without ads, with interesting features, its own forums, updates and, of course, the opportunity to receive rewards.

  1. The first versions were not on Chromium, but on Neon - then it was really very fast on weak devices. With the Blink engine, it - like Chrome - wants a lot of RAM. If there is memory, it is fast (say, on a tablet with 3 gigs of RAM, and the RAM is very slow in terms of access speed, it flies like a reactive one), if there is no memory, well, the stump is clear, the system itself starts to slow down, because the browser ate all the memory.

And yes - you need to be aware that the ad blocker sometimes destroys the design of sites and blocks images from third-party sites. This is a problem with absolutely any effective blocker - because the site creators specifically fight ad blocking, making the design of the site so that it falls apart without ads.

In general - due to its paranoia, lack of spyware from Google and a couple of really convenient solutions - Brave wins over Chrome. And tokens can be turned off and not bathed - which I did.

Brave is already interesting because it caused wild anal pain among Internet advertisers. And for mobile devices, it is quite good, according to my feelings.