For me, the advantages are negated by the fact that it's still using Chrome's rendering engine. So, in my view, it's nothing more than a Chrome reskin.
Allowing users to control how their browsing history is used for monetization is the future and Brave is way ahead here.<p>I use Brave everyday as a secondary browser, particularly when I need to access sites that run anti-ad blocking scripts which Brave handles better than any other solution I’m aware of. And of course I use Brave to get familiar with the Brave payments system.<p>Keep in mind this is a fairly early beta; version 0.20.29 just came out today; dozens of issues and bugs were fixed: <a href="https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/releases" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/releases</a>
I'm writing this comment with it now. I use it as my daily driver on my home machine when running in Windows (FF when booted in to Linux). I use Chrome at work because of integrations we have with Chrome.<p>I'm pretty happy with it. I do notice some sites are wonky in it compared to Chrome, most notably medium. However I don't visit those sites very often and when I do if it becomes an issue I just open it in Chrome and then come back to Brave. I have it set as my default browser and there is a notable lag when clicking a link in Slack or another non-browser app for the tab to open in Brave. A minor annoyance but not really an issue for me.<p>I'm content with it.
I wanted to use it, but there is one "feature" that I don't like: Private tabs share the same data. On safari on iOS, I can log into two different accounts on two different tabs. In Brave, both accounts are logged in at the same time on both tabs.
I use Waterfox on desktop and it's the brand-less FF with all the tracking crap disabled. Hardly ever have to resort to using FF Quantum but when I do, rest assure, there's the song and dance every single time of having to go in about:config and adjust/disable everything.<p>On mobile, Brave with PIA's killswitch enabled for daily browsing but it doesn't matter because of GCM and I can't seem to rid myself entirely of Google.
I use Brave's mobile browser daily, and have for months. It renders like Chrome mobile as far as I can tell, it's at least as fast, and compared to Firefox mobile, I don't need to add another plugin to block ads.<p>I'm not really interested in the whole BAT thing that Brave is trying, and haven't heard much else about privacy or security lately.
I don’t use it for my day to day simply because it doesn’t have my history/autocomplete from Chrome/Safari. I do however use it quite often when cooking because most recipe sites are loaded with ads that either make reading a recipe an annoyance or the site crashes my iPad’s browser 10 minutes in.
I use it almost exclusively on Android. I'll use Brave if I want to keep tabs open for a while and Firefox Focus if it's just a fleeting read.