Posted on 10/07/2023 4:19:21 PM PDT by Salman
Brave Software, the maker of Brave Browser and Search, confirmed that it has laid off 9% of its staff across departments.
The company didn’t specify how many people were affected, but it corroborated the development and said the decision was driven by the tough economic climate.
“Brave eliminated some positions as part of our cost management in this challenging economic environment. Several departments were affected, amounting to 9% of our staff,” a company spokesperson told TechCrunch in a statement.
The company has been taking steps to bolster its revenue sources this year. In April, Brave Search ditched Bing Index to start relying on its own indexing solution. In May, the company released its own search API for clients with plans starting from $3 per 1,000 queries. The API also offers different plans for AI data model training, data with storage rights, spellcheck, and autosuggest. Last month, Brave introduced image, news, and video results as a part of its Search API.
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Brave is my favored browser FWIW.
I’m using it now.
Mine too
Me three
Ditto.
Also mine -- with all the crypto business turned off and a VPN other than the one Brave is selling. Firefox is my backup.
Same.
Same. Great ad blocking built-in and easy access to private browsing. Hope they come through ok.
Ditto.
PC, tablet and phone
Ditto.
I really like Brave. It is fast and does a fantastic job filtering our garbage on web pages.
I use Safari a lot, but it frequently stalls out and just stops loading pages, then throws errors. It’s “Reader” view is good, but often the second half of a page isn’t visible or comments aren’t visible.
Ditto!
Brave orginally estimated that its Rewards feature, would occupy only 10 percent of the support/labor effort; but, Rewards and BAT (not-quite-cryptocurrency) ended up occupying more than 50 percent of the support/labor effort.
Brave Rewards means accumulated BAT’s, not accumulated crypto-currency; the expectations of cryptocurrency-hopefuls, grew dramatically, complicating the administration of Brave Rewards and BAT.
A major difficulty was with the software that managed the accounting of, and for, Brave Rewards - including the many, often, relentless mis-understandings of Brave customers, re How the Rewards and BAT system(s) actually work.
Also, there have been many users - particularly foreign - who repeatedly figured ways to game the Brave Rewards and BAT system, and acquire BAT in violation of Brave guidelines.
Such users would find themselves frozen out from their un-just rewards. But a system at Brave, intended to weed out the “crooked,” could also “find” false-positives and freeze out customers who had not been trying to “steal” BAT.
I am reporting what I observed from the outside, and not as an employee.
I hardly use it anymore as my search engine. The results clearly have just as much of a Leftist bias as Google.
I switched the Yandex. Try doing a search on any political subject on Brave/Google. Then type the same thing into Yandex. The differences are AMAZING.
I using it right now, but the built-in ad blocker blocks Disqus. I like the built-in snowflake so I can help people in countries where they’re being censored can still go to sites they want.
I test search engines by typing in my name. Bing works the best for me.
Love brave on my phone
“Brave is my favored browser.” I second that motion.
Thanks for the Yandex tip. Impressive.
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