Brave Private Web Browser, VPN Reviews

What’s not to like right? This is hands down the fastest browser I’ve used on my Mac, iOS and Windows devices. Ads are blocked by default and it’s easy to make changes to the shields when they inadvertently block things that you want to see. Brave’s privacy focus is a huge selling point especially for people who follow tech and have noticed just how creepy the predictive algorithms are getting. One of the most interesting things is the Brave Rewards model and their solution to the current online advertising nightmare - the BAT (Basic Attention Token). Not only to they pay you for watching ads but the tech also promises an opportunity to upend the current broken system of Google-based ads and predictive marketing analytics. What they hope to do eventually is to put the power back consumer’s hands by paying us to view adds and allocating BAT to content providers based on the proportion of attention you give the site monthly. Popularity growth of the platform and additional investment and price increases for the BAT token will be required to get to a point where the system can potentially provide enough revenue to compete directly against Google etc. but Rome wasn’t built in a day. Give it a try and read up a little. I think you’ll like it too.

If anyone is still using google and especially those who still use. Are you too lazy to take time and see just how your life is being tracked and information being sold to any country or business for millions. I bet the very people who are not concerned with your privacy do not leave your home unlocked while your gone? Take charge and be concerned that your life is being sold to people by google, other search engines and social media. These people you do not know I can assure you know as much if not more about you and your family than you know yourself.
If you want request your data and what you receive will not only shock you but what information they give you is about half of file they store on your life. If time is issue just download Brave and protect yourself and your family. If you choose not to you can never complain when you find out. Being robbed of your private life is worse than your home being burglarized.
Wake up use BRAVE at least to protect your family members from you exposing them to the unknown people who know so much about them. You can expose yourself but do not drag others into your selfishness behavior.
Brave is a great free way to protect yourself from being monitored 24/7.

Update:so now it’s doing the same exact thing as the other apps for the site. Deleting this. That lasted a whole day
So I literally never write reviews (I know I’m sure people say that a lot) but I honestly don’t I could care less but I knew if there was someone out there unsure like me I had to share how awesome BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN is. I have safari on my iPhone which is alright but for some reason Walmart (don’t judge I mean hey they have great prices!) just doesn’t want to load it or will half load and take forever or it would load in like writing with no pictures or like a different layout with no button to press on for next page basically just a mess and Thats on strong WiFi so I kept having refresh or put it in desktop mode til it would work and mind you that other sites would load no problem it was just this one so I had chrome downloaded because I love chrome and I knew sometimes it would load better in chrome then safari (but still sometimes even on there same thing) so I decided to look in BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN Store and this pops up I decide to give it a try what do I have to lose and instantly it loads in a millisecond and no problems at all and the page loads correctly! I’ve never had anything load that quick and the page works fine (finally!!) and as do other sites too BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN is awesome bottom line you won’t regret downloading it I sure don’t!! Hope this helps someone decide :)

Everyone in the reviews are whining because of the tiny pop ups saying the locker doesn’t work.. YEAH IT DOES I’m coming used Brave for almost 4 years now and made well over $200 u canchoose to turn ur rewards off and not get the tiny pop ups or chose to get 1-10 an hr andat dnr of month they send u crypto which u can sell or trade for other crypto and I highly recommend instead of letting Google get paid for all ur search’s download presearch or get the extension on ur browser and ur get paid small amounts but the normal person does like 5000 search’s a year and the Vic u .25 a search see Google every search and chrome/other browsers gets $ for ur data so Take what’s rightfully ur and use Brave and presearch together and make that money itself trust me u wont be sorry ur making nothing now even if u only make 2 a month ur not letting google and Microsoft get rich off ur data and ur search’s. And braves pop up blocker works best I’ve seen saves u a ton of data and makes ur internet experience more ch smoother and faster and ppl complaining passwords ain’t saving clearly are cluelessgo to setting and turn pass off mgr on. Duh!! Lol

The only annoying bug I’ve found is that occasionally Brave randomly switch me to the adjacent tab to the one where I had was successfully browsing a site. My suspicion is that it’s crashing for a split second and then restoring me to tab #20 instead of #19. It seems like a bug that persists from version to version as well (as with so much software).

On the other hand, I’m glad there’s someone out there at least trying to counter this mad track-and-spam-advertise arms race that we’re currently experiencing online. I used to use the number one search engine (which last decade has increasingly resembled #2 IMHO) and everywhere I would go I would be besieged by obnoxious relentless spam search results and horrible invasive “targeted ads”. Now, with Brave, I have other choices of search engines beyond the usual ones (which I find to be each one totally terrible). I don’t find myself paddling round the same gyre of crap sites that I used to find myself repeatedly directed into as if I were trying to escape a black hole but failing to.

Having said this, note that Brave is not 100% successful at anonymizing you, and these sites are bound to keep growing ever more clever; but over the last year or so it has been a noticeable improvement for me.

Main issue is website data DOES NOT CLEAR when all tabs are closed, NOR when the brave app is closed and reopened -even in private mode with all boxes checked on the Privacy settings page. This is NOT how privacy should work! We should not need to manually clear website data! Also, we should be able to block only third party cookies and/or block all cookies. Not just block cookies. Which if NOT blocked, brave retains these cookies between launches of BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN , AND ALSO, displays cookies (website data) that was previously MANUALLY CLEARED after previous uses of brave before closing it.
Finally, Whatever iphone ios 15 App interface is used to pass links to brave, has in the past, failed to use brave as the default browser and sometimes also, fails to open the page in brave when the link is passed to brave. Nothing is in address bar, nothing opens. Brave opens then nothing. If this is a brave or ios setting related design or issue it should explicitly say so. Brave also holds old webpage in cache of a tab in tab view screen that has already been navigated back using the browser ‘back’ arrow. Why should we have to be bothered by having to use community page and create login and create report FOR A PRIVACY BROWSER and troubled by such trivial issues. Emphasis on privacy.

This browser honestly is so nice. It’s got a lot of features that you seek in a browser, especially ones that Chrome lacks. It has a clean interface for the favorites bookmark, it has a built-in adblocker and reader mode (which isn’t the best but it’s still nice), it has cool animations, etc.

However, it’s still not perfect. Some “issues” include that it’s not really friendly towards one handed use, a feature that I would really appreciate if added. For example, a button at the bottom could be added in place of the 3 dots that activates the search bar. Then, those three dots could be integrated into the Brave logo at the top. Moreover, the tabs page, which has tiles that are somewhat hard to reach, could have a button at the bottom that reaches the top. Also, it would look cleaner if the url is shorter at the top and that, when you scroll down, that shortened url still appears. I completely realize how I’m nit-picking, but these would be nice to have nonetheless.

First of all, I LOVE this browser. The level of privacy and security is a breath of fresh air compared to most. Wonderfully they are developing a email that forwards to yours, keeping yours anonymous and less easy to be compromised while purchasing online (such as duck duck is). That is a huge bonus feature. I do find that BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN has many more privacy options than most and that seems to be the company’s #1 priority. However I only deducted a star because I mobile app would be top notch with full security and privacy customization options that are standard on the PC version. That is surprising to me. I also appreciate if there were more accessibility options within BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN settings. I am moderately vision and hearing impaired. For some reason Brave doesn’t seem to recognize my phone setting to accommodate for those disorders. It does seem to break sites on occasion, although the devs are pretty good at promptly fixing those issues once you report them plus sometimes this is my VPN. All in all, I would 100% recommend this, especially if you just need a basic browser that doesn’t track and get in on your business.

I would rate this browser second only to a quality TOR Onion browser in regards to privacy, anonymity, and digital footprint protections.

With its many options for privacy and security settings which includes a built in VPN designed specifically to work in tandem with the browser provides for effortless protection of your digital personal identification markers which are not only at high risk but even exploited openly by other browsers and services offered as “free” by its more well known mainstream counterparts.

If I had to rank browsers by their security features and options, both mobile and PC I would rank them:
1. Tor Onion
2. Brave
3. Duck Duck Go

As a caveat I would suggest anyone who has concerns about digital privacy to the point where they have looked at this browser to the point of actually reading my review, I would tell them to stop using the industry standard website for doing web searches and switch to the equally effective and extremely safer competitor Duck Duck Go.

I am not an employee, family member of an employee, or have been in any way influenced or incentivized monetarily or otherwise by any of the companies or products mentioned in this review. It has been written by me without request for the sole purpose of educating and informing fellow citizens of the world that are concerned with the 3rd Industrial Revolution of the digital age.

Essayons.

This is a great browser, probably the best mobile one in my honest opinion and wayyy better than Safari because it blocks ads, allows you to easily search with different search engines, and actually shows the different tabs at the top. However, Idk if this is a security thing but now that I have most of my passwords on iCloud and Brave I rely on both whenever i forget them and unfortunately there is no way to view my Brave passwords on mobile (at least for iOS). This is extremely annoying because then I have to hop on my computer and spend a couple minutes opening up my passwords and finding the correct one. It would be nice if it just worked exactly like it did on the desktop version of Brave.

Also, with the new Safari rolling out in November, maybe it’s time to consider a design refresh based off of user response to the new Safari and other browsers. Current design is the best imo on mobile but maybe it could be improved further and beat out the competition.

There’s not a lot I can say about Brave in general that hasn’t been said in other reviews, and BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN specifically is a generally solid mobile browser. A few sites won’t work quite right with it (and are not a mobile issue, because they work alright in firefox or chrome), but that’s pretty rare.

A little pet peeve I’ve recently encountered is that, for some reason (unlike more mainstream browser apps), Brave often sets off the iphone’s ‘data detectors’, aka when it highlights something that says ‘tomorrow night’ or ‘this afternoon’ so you can click it and set a reminder or create a calendar event. This is distracting when trying to read a news article or webnovel, and makes no sense. It’s not a thing that can be disabled on the iPhone at large, and I checked the same sites on other apps (firefox, chrome) which don’t have the same issue, so I’m not sure why Brave does. Again, this is a pretty minimal issue, but I do personally find it irritating.

Likes: blocks a lot of tracking and data gathering which eats up data and slows things down. Definitely faster than safari. Blocks a lot of pop ups that other browsers won’t block.

Dislikes: they change things just to change things, some of the “features” are pointless and can’t be deleted. Whatever the quick pop up when you touch a link is pointless. If I want to go to another page though a link then go to that link, I end up having this pop out that I have to wait to go away and then hit the link. Double or triple the time which eats up whatever times savings I get from the restricted tracking.

Also in the latest update on the favorites page you can only see one line of favorites, you have to hit a button to see the rest of your favorites. WHY??? Absolutely no point here except to aggravate me and make me use extra time to see my favorites. Who is making these decisions? Are you trying Lisa people off? What is the point?

I downloaded Brave two years ago after hearing about it from a friend, and I couldn’t have been happier. However, in the last 6 months, I feel betrayed by the experience.

It still blocks the majority of ads in websites so if that’s all you’re looking for, it’s excellent. I can’t recommend it enough. But now the formerly blank background has ads that you can’t really avoid on it. It started with NewEgg and a few random things I’d never heard of before, and now it’s got Chipotle ads. This will probably be the new norm unless they offer some subscription option to get rid of it all. Plus, now that they’re advertising more mainstream companies, how long before we get to ads from more poisonous sources?

The whole point of going ad-free is because advertising is disgusting and arguably immoral. Please offer an alternative to ads through some kind of one-time payment option or a subscription method. We support you and use your product to get away from the constant bullying and nefariousness of advertisements. Please let us keep it that way.

Great concept for protecting privacy and funding your preferred content providers with Brave rewards. I have my own vpn so haven’t tried using Brave vpn in conjunction but that’s a great feature to have available for users without vpn. Unfortunately Brave hasn’t worked out the Rewards option with Apple for iOS, and it stopped doing rewards on my iPhone after only 5 rewards were accrued. It’s only real competition is DuckDuckGo I think. The DDG fire button for instantly wiping out all tabs and data is a feature I miss when I use Brave. I also haven’t found an option in Brave to autoclear on close. The only options are closing tabs manually, after one day, a week, or a month and closing does not delete the history. So that is always manual. For these reasons I’ve rated as 4 stars instead of 5. The advantage that tips scales for me towards Brave is the commitment to their privacy model and the ability to easily use reader mode that seems less available in DDG.

OK so I do love this browser and I’m going to keep using it but I am taking two stars off because for some reason it doesn’t synchronize between desktop and mobile devices which is a huge drawback, because it means I can’t use one single passwords database, or my saved cards, and maybe most annoyingly I can’t pool all of my Brave rewards in a single uphold account, in fact I can’t even figure out how to get my BAT off of it either on mobile or tablet device at all. They seem to just sit there in the wallet and only allow me to use them for tips, which I would actually be fine with if more content creators accepted them but otherwise they’re mostly only useful to cash in. If this whole synchronizing issue were fixed so that my Brave experience were a single unified experience across all my devices then I would bump it to five stars because other than that I love it.

When I first learned that the maker of Brave was also responsible for launching Mozilla Firefox, a trust had already been established, especially since Fox was the only browser that had the capability of accessing all of my online courses. During my studies, I used the internet to access credible resources on the internet, but it’s quickly become obvious how distorted Google’s algorithms have become because it is common that I can’t find the answers I seek, especially when it is political! Out of frustration, I downloaded Brave, using Duck Duck Go to search and the answers I was seeking appeared at the top .... My only request for Brave is to clearly mark the dates in the link, so users know which option is the most updated data ~ Thanks for bringing Brave into the world ... The public needs unfiltered access to knowledge if we intend to evolve in tomorrow’s world!

Since I am a growing mind, I need something to satisfy my hunger for knowledge. So, I use this search engine every day. It offers the best, top quality, FREE(I’m not kidding), search tools to help enhance your experience surfing the web. This includes ADVERTISEMENT BLOCKERS on all websites, and more complicated blockers. There is even a private browsing mode! Additionally, the Dev(s) added in a rewards system that makes using Brave Browser, well, rewarding! You can get points the more you use BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN , and you can donate ACTUAL MONEY to Brave Rewards verified website/content creators!
I don’t think you’ll find Safari being this brave!😏

Note to Developers: There’s just one thing. If you guys could add in an option to delete your non-private browsing history ALL AT ONCE instead of one by one that would be awesome! I don’t know if this is how it how it works but like I had mentioned before, I do a LOT of surfing on the web, and so my history fills up fast. This makes the caches on my phone take up whole gigabytes of space(I think so), of which for me is extremely scarce. If there is a way to delete it all at once please let me know. This is such an amazing app to me and I hope others and myself can experience it to the fullest of its potential.
Thanks!🙏🏾
—A citizen of the Brave Kingdom

Brave is the best browser in terms of privacy, ad blocking, and preventing cookies/trackers. Despite all the I have noticed that the interface gives a cheap feeling. Someone who has been an Apple user for a long time, I have gotten used to the clean interface which Brave lacks, it rather complicates it by adding so many things in visible places. Also, there have been instances where I haven’t been able to access the top bar when it was hidden during interaction. Often with privacy browsers websites don’t function properly but with Brave, they seem to do find and Brave even lets you customize the type of Brave shield being used which allows you to be able to disable a certain thing that may be preventing the website from functioning properly. Overall, best privacy feature and good quality browser.

Switched after Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and every “mainstream” media outlet began censoring the 2020 election disaster. Won’t go back - this is built on the Chromium API and it migrated all of my Google data and extensions with ease. Combined my VPN and its built-in ad blocks and tor, this is an incredible browser. If you have Chrome or Chromium, just remove your ad block extensions and set up your own rewards in cryptos if you want to get paid a little... I mean a little... to view ads your might want. It’s a very good browser and is much faster than Chrome while using a ton less resources. Did it on my Linux boxes, MacBooks, PC’s, and my phones with virtually no setup. Removing profiles is tricky because the little “x” on the desktop browser is hidden in the profile manager but other than that this thing is a 10/10 all day.

I’ve been a chrome user since day one essentially sadly so for 13 years they have been money off of my information, I never realized how much of my info was out there until I had a random thought about changing browsers after having a popular VPN for a while and how much they talk about security and how much your info is being stolen and sold no matter how much you try to secure it. Chrome, Opera, the list goes on they all have the same goal and the fact of the matter is that they aren’t upfront with it is what bothers me the most. I will never go back, Brave please don’t ever sell to a company that will take the fundamentals of what has been set from the beginning because what you guys have created is perfect and I can’t wait what you guys make this into even more beautiful.

I love using privacy apps like Brave. Most the of the websites I search on work well through this browser and load quicker with the built-in Adblocker. Brave makes it easy to sync all my bookmarks from my Brave desktop Internet browser to all my mobile devices. I also like how allows you to select what kinds of shield protections you want to use, such as fingerprint protection. The settings make it very easy to give you the privacy that you want.

What would be great is if Brave could enable the Brave BAT Rewards feature like they do on their desktop apps by viewing privacy-respected ads so I could collect BAT currency. Otherwise, I’d choose BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN all the time than switching between different privacy browsers.

UPDATE: Thank you so much Brave Team for the recent upgrade to allow Brave Rewards on the mobile browser. I’m really enjoying it!

About a month ago I deleted all my other search browsers and have been using this one since then. There are quite a few different settings that you can mess with to make it more personal for you. That being said you can leave it just how it is and it works perfectly! One cool feature about BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN is it can show you the amount of seconds it has saved you while searching as well as how many ads it has blocked. I have definitely noticed the lack of ads since using this and I mean who actually likes ads? Not me. If I were to try and find one bad thing about BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN is that while you are trying it doesn’t auto correct your words while you are typing like safari does but that is a very minor thing. Over all I would definitely recommend using this browser over most others.

The Brave Team messed up the browser recently, but it was fixed super quick. The recent update that changed the way the interface looks is super cool, but one thing that got messed up is that they replaced the new tab button with a search button. What’s the problem here? Well, there was no way to open a new tab without viewing the tab list, which I used to do all the time. The new search button does exactly the same thing that tapping the search bar already does, so this change made no sense at all. I complained in a review and a day or so later an update comes out and reversed this change completely! Thanks Brave Team for being great as always!

OLD REVIEW
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Brave team, I love the new update. It’s much nicer looking than before. But please, PLEASE change the search button back into a new tab button! There is absolutely no reason to have a search button since you can just tap on the address bar at any time to do the same thing, but to make new tabs I have to switch to the tab view and tap it there. It takes twice as long and the button they replaced the new tab button with is completely useless and breaks my workflow in the browser. PLEASE change it back or give us the option to change it back!

I had no complaints after a long time using BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN but today’s update introduced a bug (now fixed) and an undesirable feature.

(Dec 11, 2019, Fixed - Thanks) Bug: I turn off the brave tokens icon in settings. This works until I close (actually shut it down) the browser. When I relaunch, the icon is back. I have to turn or on and off again. The issue repeats every time.

Feature: Long press on a link popped a simple menu to open in new tab. Now it opens a shrunken visual of the page. However you can’t scroll in that shrunken view so I can’t tell if there is anything of value on that link. The effect of the shrunken view has no purpose so I’d rather just have an option to see my simple pop up menu instead. If you can add that as an opinion in settings, I would use it.

(Dec 11, 2019 - Addressed - Thanks for the feedback ... I had not understood how the Bookmark button provides improved use over a simple home button) Request:
Can you add an option to display a home button (icon). I hate having to close or open tabs just to see speed dials so I can select the one page I access 90% of the time. A home button really is my #1 request of any browser but it seems to be going the way of the headphone jack.

I recently switched from chrome to brave after realizing the full extent of the information alphabet collects on you from chrome. I anticipated a decrease in my browser experience with brave in exchange for the privacy benefits, but I was very pleasantly surprised to find that my browser speed was noticeably better with brave. Since Mozilla has begun engaging in extremely concerning behavior regarding Firefox privacy, Brave is, in my opinion, the essential alternative for those who wish to use the internet while maintaining their civil liberties. For those familiar with the software engineering industry, brave is led by former Mozilla Foundation chief and JavaScript author Brendan Eich, a person for whom I have great respect and admiration. I strongly recommend this browser to everyone.

I love Brave, I use it on desktop and it’s fantastic to have it both on my iPad and on mobile. I appreciate that devs give a crap when it comes to privacy and that there’s an entire browser dedicated to protecting our information. However, it’s pretty buggy, and since the last update, there’s an issue with consistent crashes. It doesn’t crash on my iPhone, but it does on my iPad (which is a fairly new iPad Pro)—I haven’t been able to use it for the past hour without it crashing. The other bugs are things such as favorites not saving, copying a page doesn’t always save the link to the device clipboard, “find in page” search vanishes right after attempting to use it so you have to try 2-3 times before it works, tabs overwrite each other even though I’m opening new tabs, and old tabs vanish without explanation. Hope these things clear up so I can raise my rating!

I downloaded this because I was trading small amounts of their Crypto Currency (BAT) on Coinbase and thought hey I should see what this actually is. After reading up on it and confirming it’s an actual browser and not a scam I downloaded Brave and surfed around the web and wow. From what I have read it is not as good on desktop but I have not actually tried it so I have no idea, but on my phone and tablet it is amazing. Everything loads so much faster, they really do cut out all those annoying adds. This is something I completely stumbled on by accident and love it. Still pretty new so if I end up having a lot of issues and realize I over hyped this I will change the review, If not I highly recommend you try this out.

Hot diggity! The BRAVE browser for the World Wide Web is, BY FAR, the absolute BEST web browser since web browsers began to exist! Taking all of the wonderful inner workings of a perfect chromium based web browser, then making it MU H faster, and MUCH more secure, blocking ads, scripts, etc., maintaining the option of adding Chrome extensions while blocking all of that nosy, all up invading your privacy nonsense that Google is so into, a freaking SWEET “Dark Mode” just to give the user the opinion to make the GUI very much cool, to go right with the new “Dark Mode” settings option in iOS 13. It’s so early in the morning that I am writing this review in that ever dangerous “pre-coffee mode”, so I had best stop now. Words are escaping me. Just suffice to say; “Be brave! Download and use the Brave web browser!
MUST. HAVE. COFFEE.

The best browser. Simply put. The ad blocking is very effective and I love the incognito mode gets hidden in BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN switcher. However, as much as I'd like to support many online creators, I find the whole BAT and rewards thing complicated. I just want to click a button on a particular website and support the creator of that website in a privacy-respecting and unobtrusive way. I could probably figure it out if I spent a few minutes searching up about Brave Rewards, but if it was just a bit simpler I think it would deter a lot fewer users (and try not to push the Brave Rewards thing too hard; it gets a bit obnoxious). That aside, truly the most stunning browser ever. Mad respect for you, Brandon Eich.

I used to love the functionality of BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN, but its racked up a fair share of bugs & they haven’t been fixed in a while.

First, I normally keep tabs to pages I visit frequently open in my main browser, but sometimes I use the private browser for things I don’t want in my history. Going from main to private is fine, & going from private to main (used to) close all tabs open in private (not main !), which I liked, but recently BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN has just ben crashing when I go from private to main, which closes all my tabs in the main browser. Luckily it restores them but there was a time it didn’t & I lost a bunch of pages I needed & couldn’t remember.

Second, sometimes embedded videos won’t load & I’ll get an error. It’s a Brave-specific issue & Safari has never had this issue. I’ll even copy links to test it, & Brave seems to just not play certain embedded videos (not all, just certain ones.)

Again, I still use Brave & enjoy the privacy features & built-in ad block, but the errors are piling up & with each update more & more come, with less noticeable fixes. I also haven’t seen any way to report bugs within BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN , which is why I’m writing this review. I hope improvements & changes come soon, this definitely is one if the best apps for people concerned about their personal data & information.

i was reluctant to switch from Chrome but since they’re starting to block ad-blockers i finally made the jump and i’m so glad. Turns out Brave is a chromium (chrome-based) browser so i was able to sync it with all the same info i had on Chrome in a matter of seconds. It’s WAY faster and uses like half the data and battery that Chrome did. I even switched to it on my desktop as well and along with all the other great stuff they PAY me when i look at ads (it’s been a few days and they already paid me like $3 so it’s not that much but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). I sound like i’m being sponsored to write this review but like.. if you’re apprehensive just give it a try, i’ve been very impressed.

I really liked Brave until the most recent rev. The bookmarks icon/button is gone. I discovered that if I tap about six times hard on the three dots at the top right of the viewer window, I can get a bookmarks list, but it disappears as soon as you use it. I have had to switch back to Safari. Was this change intentional? Anyway, it ruined BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN for me.

I figured out the biggest weakness for BravePrivateWebBrowserVPN. The icons for bookmarks (“...”) and a few others require pinpoint precision of fingertip placement to effect a response. It is nearly impossible on a screen the size of an iPad mini. I was having to punch an average of six times before getting the bookmarks pop-up. Same is true now of the back and forward icons (“<>”). To get the bookmarks icon to work you have to concentrate on the leftmost dot in (“...”). Raises the probability of success to 33% if one is in a well lighted room. Shouldn’t be this hard.

I was skeptical at first, but after using it for a few days now, this is unquestionably the fastest mobile browser available. I was a die hard Chrome guy and it took a long time for me to finally give it a shot (who likes changing something like their browser?), but now that I have I will never look back and I have already downloaded the Brave browser onto my PC.

This browser has built in ad blocking and puts the users privacy first. Gone are the days of Google and Facebook tracking our every move and selling our data to any and everyone. Take back control and give the Brave browser a shot - the difference is truly noticeable.

I really like brave. Hated when bookmarks button got buried. To developers’ credit this was quickly fixed. Two improvement suggestions I would highly recommend against current version:

1. Top tool bar is too small on iPad making back and forward buttons hard to tap. Recommend you mimic size used by safari. Apple does tons on UI analysis and taking cues from their work is not a bad idea.
2. When bookmarks hit the menu sticks open until bookmark or done is hit. Would be nice if clicking anywhere outside menu also closed menu. Again like safari.

Thanks for update. Nice job with update.

——— my previous 3-star review

But the latest version redesign of the top tool bar is misguided in my view. Bookmarks are one of the most common feature many users access. This used to be a two tap operation, tap bookmarks icon and then tap bookmark. Latest release has turned this into a three tap operation, tap settings and then tap bookmarks and then tap bookmark.

For something used all the time making it 50% harder to get to is a bad UI design decision. Hope team fixes in next release.

Even when I specifically tell iOS not to background refresh ANY apps, Brave will always refresh itself in the background. This seems to be random and I have no control over it. It’s especially annoying when I’m streaming independent podcasts on a website, lock the phone, then 30 seconds later the podcast stops because it refreshes the page. This also happens if I just open another app with it playing in the background. The only workaround I know of is to keep my phone constantly on the webpage, which is annoying because I sometimes need to save battery life or just do another thing on my phone. I have no idea how to fix this, can someone help?