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Mozilla should build a better browser and fix their marketing if they want to gain back market share. Other browsers have managed to find ways to gain market share. I mean Brave has grown extremely rapidly headed by the ousted Mozilla CEO during Mozilla's decline

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Brave has so few users that Wikimedia doesn’t even list them on the summary table. They get more hits from Apple Mail.

https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1102/

My understanding is that Brave uses Chrome user agents for privacy.

Yeah this is the correct answer. They're a privacy focused browser, which includes not collecting specific user data or letting other people collect user data. So if you send a request to their browser asking what it is, it'll tell you it's google chrome and not Brave

Brave has 55 million MAU. That is huge for a browser that's just 3 years old.

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