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ITT: we guess how many MAU and DAU there will be in the next update

My guess is 29 MAU, 9.4 DAU

>>29944467
holy shit nobody cares man. get a fucking life good god. if you want to use ungoogled or fucking netscape navigator, go ahead. your 1996 geocities site is not impressing anyone.

dont use the browser, dont buy BAT. try not to neck too hard after having spent this much time in BAT threads only to completely miss the moon mission because you couldnt see the forest through the trees.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/27/brave-beats-other-browsers-in-privacy-study/amp/

"Users looking for a privacy-focused browser might want to consider Brave first, according to a study published this week.

Douglas Leith, professor of computer systems at Trinity University, examined six browsers for his report – Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home? He found that Brave’s Chromium-based browser is the least likely to reveal unique identifying information about the computer using it.

The study examined six browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Brave, Edge, and Yandex. It used several tests to deduce whether the browser can track the user’s IP address over time, and whether it leaks details of web page visits. To do this, it looked at the data shared on startup after a fresh install, on a restart, and after both pasting and typing a URL into the address bar. It also explored what the browser did when it was idle.

Even though Mozilla makes a talking point of privacy in Firefox, it was Brave, developed by Mozilla’s founder (and creator of JavaScript) Brendan Eich, that won out. Brave, which has accused Google of privacy violations, is “by far the most private of the browsers studied” when used with its out of the box settings, according to the paper.

The study placed browsers in one of three privacy classes, based on the time span over which they retain identifiers. Brave gets the top class all to itself because it uses what the study calls ‘ephemeral’ identifiers that link a handful of transmissions and then reset. This means it doesn’t remember your identifier across browser restarts.

The paper lumps Safari, Firefox, and Chrome together in the second band. These browsers share some privacy issues, the paper warns, including auto-tagging each browser instance with unique session and browser instance identifiers that can persist..."

Tldr: Brave, OOTB, BTFO other browsers in terms of privacy and security.

>>27460237
>>27460235
Fud and hysteria.

Brave:
>Built-in Ad-blocker written in C++ and Rust, partially based on uBO, and frequently updated
>Regarded as a top tier privacy and security-centric browser by credentialed academic researchers
>IPFS Support OOTB
>Optional integrated private Tor tabs
>Optional integrated lightweight torrent client for inspecting a torrent's content before you pass it off to your actual client (qBT, of course)
>Best in class protection against fingerprinting via complex entropic contextually driven anonymized randomization algorithms
>Completely FOSS
>No telemetry whatsoever (unless you opt in to Brave Rewards)
>Extremely fast page loads
>All the extension and DRM'd media playback support of Chromium
>Regularly incorporates patches from UG Chromium
>Sync works independently of Jewgle™ and utilizes blockchain technology
>Optional, completely opt-in rewards program for people living in serious poverty who want to get thrown a couple of bucks for watching ads provided via an anonymized recommendation system, which is far better than the advertising model we are forced to deal with on the rest of the web
>The rewards come in the form of BAT, essentially a stable-coin which can be traded on every crypto exchange under the sun

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Citations:
- https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
- https://github.com/brave/ad-block
- https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.08460.pdf
- https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/table-browser-protections.pdf
- https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/brave.html
- https://dottotech.com/brave-browser-review
- https://theprivacyguide1.github.io/why_brave_isnt_bad.html