These obviously guesstimated statistics are a thinly veiled attempt to promote Brave, right? I'm always surprised that Brave is so popular among the HN crowd. I guess that cryptocurrencies are the hot new thing, but Brave's alleged future business model is "hide ads from web pages, and then show our own ". That's shockingly sketchy. Using a built-in cryptocurrency to convince users to do their marketing for them unde…
I use Brave on my Android because it's fast and mobile-ready (unlike Firefox) and it blocks ads and trackers by default. I don't need the crypto stuff, and I with I could hide the icon from the URL bar, but I don't care that much.
I read too that they had plans to switch ads in all pages for their own ads or some crap like that. If they pull that off on me I will switch to something else.