G2

Ansh B.

Associate Security Engineer

Capital Markets

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/17/2026

"Finally a browser that doesn't feel like it's spying on you."

5/5

What do you like best about Brave?

What I Like best about Brave is how it puts privacy front and center without making you work for it. I've been using Brave as my privacy browser for over a year now in a professional setting where data privacy and security are taken seriously, and the difference compared to Chrome was noticeable almost immediately.

Most browsers treat privacy as an afterthought something you have to manually configure through extensions and settings. Brave just builds it in from the start. Ad blocking, tracker blocking, fingerprinting protection it's all on by default the moment you install it.

The speed improvement is something I noticed right away in my day to day work. Beacuse it blocks ads and trackers at the browser level, pages load noticeably faster, which adds up significantly when you're browsing heavily throughout the workday. I ran it alongside Chrome for a few weeks and the differencein load times on content heavy sites was consistently noticeable.

The Brave Shields feature has also been genuinely eye opening from a professional standpoint. Seeing exactly how much trackers are being blocked on commonly visited work related websites made me realize just how much background tracking was happening without my knowledge. Having that visibility and control built directly into the browser rather than relying on third party extensions feels like the right approach.

Being built on Chromium also made the transition seamless for our team. Chrome extension compatibility meant we didn't have to sacrifice any existing tools or workflows, which made adoption much easier than switching to a completely different browser engine would have been. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brave?

One of my biggest frustrations with Brave in a professional context is that the crypto and Web3 focus feels unnecessarily prominent. When deplyoing Brave across a team environment, the constant presence of BAT tokens, Brave Rewards prompts, and the built in crypto wallet on the new tab page created confusion among collegues who just wanted a fast, private browser. We ended up spending time explaining and disabling fetures that most users had no interest in, which wasn't ideal during onboarding.

The website compatibility issues have also been a recurring challenge. Beacuse Brave Shields is aggresive by default, we regularly encountered situations where internal tools, client portals, or specific web applications wouldn't load correctly or certain features would silently settings on a site by site basis which adds friction to the daily workflow and requires a level of technical comfort that not all users have.

The Brave Rewards system, while interesting in concept, felt underwhelming and overly complicated when we actually tried to enage with it. The token earnings were minimal, the verification process was cumbersome, and the overall experience didn't deliver on what it seemed to promise. For a professional environment it ended up being more of a distraction than a benefit.

And Brave Search, while privacy respecting, still falls short of Google in terms of result quality and relevance for technical or industryspecific searches. In practice most of our team defaulted back to Google for anything beyond casual browsing, which limited the full privacy benefit Brave was meant to provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brave solving and how is that benefiting you?

The core problem Brave is solving is the lack of built in privacy and security in mainstream browsers. Most people don't realize how much data is being collected about them every time they browse the web every click, every page visit, every search is being tracked, profiled and monetized by advertisers and data brokers operating silently in the background. Brave addresses that problem directly by blocking all of. That at the browser level before it even has a chance to happen.

In a professional context this has been genuinely beneficial for our team. We work in an environment where data sensitivity and confidentiality matter, and knowing that browsing activity isn't being tracked or leaked through third party scripts and trackers gives a real layer of assurance that. Standard browsers simply don't provide out of the box. We didn't have to install multiple privacy extensions or configure complex settings Brave handled it from day one.

The performance benefit has also had a real practical impact on productivity. By blocking ads and trackers at the browser researching, accessing web based tools, reviewing documents that speed improvement adds up meaningfully over the course of a day.

From a security standpoint Brave has also helped reduce our exposure to malvertising malicious ads taht can deliver malware through legitimate looking websites. By blocking ads. Entirely by default, that attack vector is essentially eliminated without needing any additional security tooling specifically targeting browser based threats.

The fingerprinting protection is another problem Brave solves that most people overlook. Even without cookies, websites can identify and track users through browser fingureprinting collecting details about your device, screen resolution, installed fonts and more to build a unique profile. Brave actively randomizes these signals, which is something very few browsers address at all and something we specifically valued in our environment.

And from an organisational adoption perspective, the fact that Brave is Chromimun based meant our team could transition without losing access to Chrome extentions or dealing with compatibility issues accross the web tools we rely on daily. That made it a practical privacy upgrade rather than a disruptive platform change.

So overall Brave is solving the problem of passive, invisible data collection that happens every time someone opens a browser and the benefit for us. Has been faster browsing, stronger privacy, reduced secuirty exposure, and a more trustworthy foundation for our day to day web activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.