Business Brave Browser continues steady growth

Brave says May 2024 was its biggest growth month ever​

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By Mayank Parmar


Brave browser experienced its most significant growth month ever in May 2024, now used by more than 78.95 million monthly users, up 7.3%.

The privacy-focused web browser experienced substantial growth in Latin America, where the browser became one of the top apps in the Google Play Store in several countries.

Using the historical method, the Brave's monthly active users (MAU) reached 78.95 million, a 7.3% increase from April. Daily active users (DAU) hit 28.64 million, a 4.3% rise from the previous high. Brave also reported a 28-day average of 27.27 million, reflecting a 4.32% increase.

As Brave Search is the default search engine for Brave Browser, it also saw increased growth due to the additional users.

According to the company, Brave Search queries per month (QPM) reached 843.02 million, a 2.97% increase when adjusted for 31 days. This equals an annual rate of 9.95 billion searches. On May 28, Brave Search peaked at 28.69 million queries per day (QPD), a 5.9% increase.

Brave's founder, Brendan Eich, announced the numbers in a post on X, warning that the growth will likely slow down in the coming summer due to school breaks and vacations.

"We are entering summer, so we're on lookout for the notorious (for browser makers) "summer slump" effect likely due to school breaks, vacations, & more time outdoors in many climes," Eich noted in a thread on X.

EU DMA also helped Brave​

On X, Brave previously reported that daily iOS installations jumped to over 11,000 after Apple implemented DMA's guidelines, allowing users to choose their default browser easily in the EU.


Jump in Brave installations after new iOS update

Brave will likely continue experiencing growth in the coming years, but getting close to Chrome's 65% market share will be a tough uphill battle.

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Crypto-Powered Brave Browser Surpasses 30 Million Daily Users, Continues Steady Growth

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By Francisco Memoria


The popular cryptocurrency-powered Brave browser has surpassed 30 million daily active users (DAU) as it continues to see month-on-month growth while focusing on growth and retention.

That’s according to Brave’s co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich, who in a post on the microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter) revealed that Brave’s daily active users are now above 30 million after growing around 1% in September. Its monthly active users are above 83 million when a historical measuring method is applied, and above 71.6 million when using a visible funnel method.

@Brave September stats

Browser (historical method)
MAU: 83.08M (+2.5% normalized to 31 days)
DAU: 30.60M (HWM +1.1%; 28 day mean: 29.23M +4.1%)
DAU/MAU: 0.35

Browser (visible funnel method)
MAU: 71.66M (+2.7%)
DAU: 30.13M (HWM +0.8%; 28 day mean: 28.80M +4.2%)
DAU/MAU: 0.4

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Brave’s privacy-focused search engine, Brave Search, has also seen significant growth last month, topping 1 billion queries per minute (QPM) and seeing an annualized queries per minute nearing the 12 billion mark after growing by 8.4%.

According to Eich’s data, QPM from non-Brave browser users stands at around 8% of total QPM. The open-source browser has been steadily growing since it was launched, according to the regular monthly stats Eich published as part of the project’s commitment to transparency.

Brave, which operates as a free web browser with built-in ad-blocking, relies upon the cryptocurrency brave attention coin (BAT) to drive its creator marketplace. Browser users are able to earn BAT for watching privacy-respecting advertisements and contribute these tokens towards supporting their favorite content.

The browser has over time expanded to also support artificial intelligence (AI) features, including an assistant called Leo, as well as a Virtual Private Network (VPN) included in a paid plan.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Well dammit, now that normoids know about it I'll have to switch to something else!

 

[The best and greatest]

Well dammit, now that normoids know about it I'll have to switch to something else!

Now its only a matter of time until it's co-opted. RIP Brave

 

[TrinityReformed]

Brave, which operates as a free web browser with built-in ad-blocking,

Still works on youtube, but for how long I'm not sure since it's getting more popular

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I recently switched to it on Android and desktop. I had it around before but I increased my usage of it significantly. It blocks ads out of the box, and I haven't enabled their crypto ads at this time (IDK if Null can receive the ad-given BAT).

More interesting than the browser itself (Chromium forks are a dime a dozen) is the search engine. I dropped that in as a replacement for Metager, and I'm having a good time with it. The search-linked AI that they use has also been surprisingly useful. For some queries, I switch back to Google for better results but it's not as often as you'd think and it's clear that they are improving. I believe they have their own independent search index, which is a rarity for the industry.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Really makes you think…

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

I know when things become popular, they usually go to shit. I truly wish the best for Brave. It allows me to listen to videos on youtube without the screen having to be on. That's more environmentally good than Google claims to do despite forcing you to keep your screen on while a video plays unless you pay for YT Premium.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

isn't it a little weird that Brave tracks their growth like this? why is this random tech site reporting their numbers like they're Bloomberg or some other money rag? if Brave is truly privacy-oriented, anti-adware software that "puts you first", why does it matter how many people are using it outside of flexing at Google? maybe it's because Brave is an investor-funded, for-profit advertising company just like Google:

The Brave browser's business model is based on its share of ad revenue. Unlike other browsers that only display websites, Brave earns revenue from ads by taking a 15% cut of publisher ads and a 30% cut of user ads. User ads are notification-style pop-ups, while publisher ads are viewed on or in association with publisher content. Brave expects to generate revenue from selling Basic Attention Tokens (BATs) to advertisers, letting users earn them while viewing ads and content.

Since April 2019, users of the Brave browser can opt in to the Brave Rewards feature. Users can earn BAT by viewing advertisements that are displayed as notifications by the operating system of their computer or device or as a native pop-up window. Advertising campaigns are matched with users by inference from their browsing history; this targeting is carried out locally, with no transmission of personally identifiable data outside the browser.

On 6 June 2020, a Twitter user pointed out that Brave inserted affiliate referral codes when users navigated to Binance. Further research revealed that Brave also added referral codes to the URLs of other cryptocurrency exchange websites. In response to the backlash from the users, Brave's CEO apologized and called it a "mistake" and said "we're correcting". He remarked that Brave seeks affiliate revenue while trying to build a viable business, adding that "This includes bringing new users to Binance & other exchanges via opt-in trading widgets/other UX that preserves privacy prior to opt-in. It includes search revenue deals, as all major browsers do."

Two days later, Brave released a new version which they said made auto-completion to partner links opt-in, followed by a blog post explaining the issue and apologizing.

Brave keeps financial reserves in the form of BATs for itself, with 200 million BATs (valued at $240 million) kept for building its blockchain-based digital advertising system and 300 million BATs allocated as seed for browser users' wallets as of 2021.

By August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital and the Digital Currency Group.

remember how Google's slogan was "Do No Evil" and then after they got investors and shareholders they didn't exploit their stranglehold on the internet to generate profit at everyone's expense? it was especially cool how they were always open and honest about whatever information they were collecting, and never lied or tried to obscure just how pervasive their analytics are. Google cares about your privacy. and that's why I trust them just like I trust Brave Software, Inc..

 

[JosephStalin]

Been using it for a while. Sure like the YT ad-blocking.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

It's the only browser I use. I don't even know what an ad looks like anymore.

 

[JosephStalin]

It's the only browser I use. I don't even know what an ad looks like anymore.

I have to use Edge for a couple of sites that may not respond to Brave.

 

[Oh Darn]

It's the only browser I use. I don't even know what an ad looks like anymore.

Youtube on Brave's mobile browser has been sneaking in ads once in awhile, which I assume is because (IIRC) Brave's ad blocking is based in part on uBlock's detection, and YT is slightly ahead of the ads/ad blocker arms race.

Weirdly, one of the ads I got was was specifically for a Brave crypto product, something that's historically only been advertised using their ad network, which means that either

A.) Brave Software purchased advertising space on YT for their crypto product,

or, what I believe is going on:

B.) Brave is intercepting YT ads and superimposing their own ads during the same slot.

I'm torn, because I'd rather Brave get the eyeballs on product, but goddamn do I hate advertisements of any kind.

 

[RollingRock2]

I use Brave because Null endorsed it on MATI

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Well dammit, now that normoids know about it I'll have to switch to something else!

The bisexual lighting on the first image suggests it's already too late

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Brendan Eich is the executive chased out of Firefox when it came to light he donated money to a group fighting fag marriage in California. Is that long enough ago that he's no longer a pariah in tech circles?

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

The bisexual lighting on the first image suggests it's already too late

Isn't that the lesbian lighting? Bisexuals had yellow as well

 

[umseriously]

I remember when this shit was being shilled on /g/ for a while, good times.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Brendan Eich is the executive chased out of Firefox when it came to light he donated money to a group fighting fag marriage in California. Is that long enough ago that he's no longer a pariah in tech circles?

There is a proposition on the ballot this year.

IIRC its Prop 1.

That will add gay marriage to the California state constitution.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

There is a proposition on the ballot this year.

IIRC its Prop 1.

That will add gay marriage to the California state constitution.

Given that it is already set at the federal level, and that the CA supreme court overturned the wishes of voters who passed the 2008 referendum to roll back fag marriage, what's the point? Some sort of homoerotic victory dance?

 

[George Lucas]

Given that it is already set at the federal level, and that the CA supreme court overturned the wishes of voters who passed the 2008 referendum to roll back fag marriage, what's the point? Some sort of homoerotic victory dance?

It’s a manufactured issue to get turnout for downballot races.

Brave seems to be the lesser of all evils, but I’ll switch if something comes out that’s better. Chromium and the rise of ‘web apps’ ruined the browser ecosystem.