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Actually because Brave aggressively and efficiently blocks ads and trackers by default it has a much better battery & performance profile.

They've blogged about this in detail. One recent post was : https://brave.com/accurately-predicting-ad-blocker-savings/.

Stating that they're simply an advertising company misses a significant amount of innovative work they're doing in-browser too.

They're building a new business model and infrastructure that is diametrically opposed to the current surveillance capitalism model, and this infrastructure can replace donations, sponsorship, advertising and subscription models in a way that reduces transaction friction significantly, and could very likely challenge a significant number of powerful incumbents.