Trying out the Brave browser

Anyone who follows tech even a little bit would have no doubt heard about the ‘new’ Brave browser.

The Brave browser promises to provide you with ‘creep’ free browsing. By this they mean none of the creepy stuff will get through and track your data, or look around your PC and take your data, or cause you to change settings you don’t want to have changed (like auto-play).

I have not done any qualitative speed tests, but I will say that Brave does seem to hold up to its claim that, as an upside to not bringing down and rendering advertising and other general click-bait, it provides a much faster and smoother browsing experience.

As you use Brave it keeps track of adverts and other creepy stuff it has blocked.

According to the Brave site, c|net claimed the Brave browser to be “hands-down” the fastest browser. In cases where it can be done, Brave changes the protocol over to HTTPS so it is more secure.

As you can see in the above clip, Brave also tries to estimate how much rendering time it has saved.

Brave also disables auto-play by default and does not allow sites to change this setting when you don’t want it changed.. I love this. I hate going to sites where audio clips or video clips start playing unexpectedly. I would almost continue to use Brave just for this feature alone.

I will be using Brave as my first choice browser for the next month to see how it works with all the sites I go to.

Obviously it works fine with SquareSpace—which is more than I could have said about the ‘old’ Internet Explorer (i.e., not the new Edge Internet Explorer browser). But I will be trying it with significant number of sites that I visit weekly.