Yandex reports [1] that renaming their Chromium-based browser's GPU process name to "chrome.exe" decreases GPU process crashes 5x and memory consumption by 8% when AMD drivers are used. Why? Driver authors hardcode chrome.exe and optimize for Chrome.😠 [1] habr-com.translate.goog/ru/company/yan…

The Google Search widget on Pixel devices will open web pages in Chrome even if you have a different default browser. 🤨 But there's a fix! In the Google app (opened by tapping the Google Search widget), go to Settings > General > and turn off "Open web pages in the app."

Great work by serega w/ Shivan Kaul Sahib PM'ing to restore a way to see individual cookies stored per-website in @Brave settings (brave://settings) after Chromium removed this UX, as they tend to do :-|. github.com/brave/brave-br…

It's now relying on its own index -> Brave severs ties with Microsoft’s Bing for web search queries; Brave also announces a Search API "Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index." theverge.com/2023/4/28/2370…

Outlook now opening links in Edge 🤦 Thankfully, you can revert the behavior and have it use your system default

Brave is proud to introduce privacy-protecting image and video search to Brave Search today! Read Thurrott for the full details: thurrott.com/cloud/286711/b…

Today we’re proud to announce Leo, the new privacy-preserving AI assistant in the Brave browser! It’s now available for testing in Brave Nightly on desktop starting with version 1.59.

chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src… Good news, Brave Search (via some b.s. metric involving pay-to-play Google Play Store ASO that Google sold to EC DGCOMP as a remedy) will soon be an alternative search engine option in Chrome, poss. in Chromium-based browsers. Please choose, when you can.

When a car becomes a whip

Spoiler alert - I eventually did set Brave as my default browser 😂🤣 x.com/_brianclifton/…

Youtube self sabotage of the own site to slow down rendering, just to counter adblock extensions, Crazy stuff. The 5 sec delay won't affect Brave as of yesterday. androidauthority.com/youtube-report…

@Brave November stats Browser (historical method) MAU: 65.66M (+3.6% vs 31-day Oct) DAU: 24.54M (HWM +2.7%; 28 day mean: 23.82M +2.9%) DAU/MAU: 0.36 Browser (visible funnel method) MAU: 57.72M (+3% vs Oct31) DAU: 24.23M (HWM +2.5%; 28 day mean: 23.53M +2.8%) DAU/MAU: 0.41 1/2

@Brave December stats Browser (historical method) MAU: 65.17M (-0.7% vs Nov31) DAU: 24.57M (HWM +0.1%; 28 day mean: 23.63M -0.8%) DAU/MAU: 0.36 Browser (visible funnel method) MAU: 57.01M (-1.2% vs Nov31) DAU: 24.26M (HWM +0.1%; 28 day mean: 23.35M -0.8%) DAU/MAU: 0.41 1/3

Apple filed a bad-faith "compliance" plan for the District Court's injunction. It totally undermines the order allowing “buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to IAP”. developer.apple.com/support/storek…

January was another big growth month for @Brave. Browser: 59.21 million Monthly Active Users (MAU +3.8%) Search: 810.7 million monthly search queries (+7.3%) We also crossed 25 million Daily Active Users (DAU +4%, 28 day average lookback), a new All-Time High! 1/4

February in this leap year was good growth month for @Brave. Browser: 60.46 million Monthly Active Users (MAU +2.1%) Search: 832.43 million monthly search queries (+2.7%) 25.55M Daily Active Users (DAU +2.1%) — another new All-Time High. 1/4

Just hit 600 subs on the Brian Clifton Mercedes YouTube channel 🎉 Definitely not for everybody - but if you like working on cars or old Mercedes-Benz, check it out! youtube.com/channel/UCafqj…

April growth stats for @Brave. Browser: 64.07 million Monthly Active Users (MAU +4.7%) Search: 818.67 million monthly search queries (-1.26%) — browser-measured ↓, search engine count ↑ 2.4% (more below on this). Browser: 27.15M Daily Active Users (DAU +5.3%), strong growth!

May 2024 was @Brave's biggest growth month on record. We knew this was coming from new daily users surging and +ive search growth returning. New users especially in Latin America, helped by getting to the top of the Google Play Store in some countries, drove browser growth. 1/4