Yeah but Brave? Why not Firefox or Vivaldi.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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Forgive them. They aren't used to choosing their browser yet.
They're Apple users. They aren't used to making any decisions when it comes to how their phones work
I’d defend myself, but I work in digital marketing so I’m not going to dissuade anyone from using AdWords.. I mean Android.
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Well the Brave Twitter account is likely a bit biased toward the Brave browser. 🙂
I'm sure the others were impacted too.
Edit: Firefox installs jumped 50%.
Vivaldi is a proprietary rebranding of Chromium. Can't say I'd recommend it over (or in addition to) Firefox.
We need less forks of Chromium. Any one company (Google in this case) having total control over browser engines is dangerous, and is a big reason why the whole Apple/Safari/Webkit situation is such a big deal to begin with.
Remember kids, if it's Chromium based, it's still part of the problem. The Chromium project only exists to provide the illusion of choice. Don't let Google have the power to dictate web standards at will.
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Vivaldi is my go to browser. Brave does a better job with blocking ads. I'm switching to Brave whenever I need to stream something on a site loaded with ads, or when YouTube manages to detect my Adblock for a few days.
Not like uBlock Origin is a thing?
Can it really get better than that and consent-o-matic?
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Still better than Edge or Chrome
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Chart is a little misleading starting at 7% instead of zero, but still a nice surge nevertheless.
True. Other people asked so they posted another one.
IMO, this makes it look even worse.
That's why they started with the one they did
Even then, this is still a solid 30-40% increase in downloads. That's statistically significant right there.
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Is that 7% or 7,000 installs total? The axis isn’t labeled!!
I see a k following the numbers, so I'm assuming that's total number of downloads.
Article states installs per day
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For god sakes don’t use Brave. Brave has been caught doing shady shit in the past, and the CEO is a piece of shit on top of that.
Use Firefox with privacy addons.
Don't worry, Firefox downloads in the EU have also skyrocketed.
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Brave would definitely not be my choice 😂
That is fine, as long as people have a choice.
Certainly, but it's probably happening for all browsers on iOS right now.
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That graph is trash. The baseline needs to be at zero.
That graph hurts my data scientist heart
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I mean sure I guess... but brave as a browser is atrocious. I don't trust their bullshit at all.
After all who doesn't want a crypto wallet in their browser? that's the safest place for it right?
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I've been using Firefox on my android phones for years though, I don't remember it ever being more involved then setting it as default on the popup on first launch.
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The axis is somewhat misleading. A jump from 8k to 11k installs is nothing.
Edit: just saw from the comments this is the number of installs per day so its bigger than I thought
A jump from 8k to 11k installs is nothing.
It's about a third. Imagine if your income went up by 30% in 24 hours, I reckon you'd be pretty happy about that.
Also - it tends to take months for a new version of iOS to reach a large number of users, and years to reach everyone. So a rapid growth rate (probably not 30%, but still fast) is likely to be sustained over quite a while.
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Misleading graph trying to make a 150% increase look like a 1000% increase.
that's a ~40% increase looking like a 300% increase
Read the left side? 7k-11k, the removed useless information, provided you read what is actually there first.
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That doesn't surprise me, and yes it was always because of anti-competitive practices, so I'm all for more neutrality, I'll just add 2 shower thoughts:
- Seeing that Brave is at the top of the browser list, I wonder how many selected Brave just because it's at the top of the list and thought that this must be a good choice then, not because they actually like Brave.
- It's nice to have such a thing for browsers, but it would have to be expanded to other apps as well, e.g. mail client. Oh well, maybe in another 10 years or so.
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That graph looks exaggerated but this is over a few days which is crazy
It is misleading. In a reputable graph, your y axis would start at zero
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Hurry USA! Better find some smallish company to sue for anti trust instead of working on any real issues like this
I used to use brave before they were soured. Ther BAT token disappearing from my account was another nail in the coffin.
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