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And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. I'm using Firefox as main browser now, and I haven't been missing brave once.ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping.

I always saw Brave as 'not chrome, and not as much of a change as Firefox', but their approach seem lazy, features halfassed at best and the sneaky anti-features that Chrome has been adding to push users to lock into Google stuff (see all my remarks about extensions) not addressed at all. I received notices that 'My account was waiting for a deposit' the entire time, even though I never allocated any money to anyone Even after adding them as unpacked, you still get the same annoying popup every time you open the browser. Does not have an easy way to load packaged extensions from 3rd party sources Still uses the Chrome Web Store as main store To be more specific, my issues with Brave are: For a browser that tries to be different, it's incredible how little consideration has been given to things that annoy users and that could probably be trivial to remove. I've used Brave since March, and I'm really not impressed.

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