So the past couple of days or so suddenly I cannot open my browser. Brave is my default browser and any time I click the icon it acts like it’s going to open it flashes up and then disappears like nothing ever happened. When I tried to click support here it tried to take me to my browser and exact same thing happened. I’ve shut my phone down and turned back on still happens, I even just updated my phone and it’s still happening. Can anyone please tell me what’s going on and how to fix this please? Thanks Now I see other people with this same problem and one answer was to update to 1.51 but mine is already updated to that and this is still happening. Please help or I’m going to have to change all of my settings and everything that makes brave my default browser because it’s just closing things out and I need to be snide to get the internet. Please help. Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼I wrote something a few days ago. Now I see a lot more reviews saying this same thing that it won’t open at all. The problem is besides the obvious….. I have a lot of passwords stored in my brave settings and now not only can’t I use my regular browser, but I’m unable to get into any of the websites who’s passwords I’ve stored in brave. This is beginning to become a much bigger problem and I would think that by now with so many others in this same situation that there would be some sort of solution posted by now. Please help. I feel like my life is on hold until this gets resolved. Thank you

It’s an extremely fast and private browser. I love the AI built into the search engine which makes things very easy to look up. I love the different wallpapers that come up every single time I open up a new tab. Very colorful and inviting. Very user-friendly interface. I use it across my phones and laptops. Built-in password protection is really nice. It does offer a VPN for $9.99 a month but since it’s only built into the browser and can’t be used for other services like streaming, I don’t know how much value that would be for the price, since there are other VPNs for the same price that cover all the bases. But It’s very fast and responsive. Way faster than Google or Safari. I noticed when I searched something in this engine it doesn’t appear on my socials in advertisement so I know it’s working. My only thing that I noticed is when I’m looking up stores/places of business in my area, (I obviously have to enter exactly where I’m looking bc it doesn’t track your location) clicking on the place of business doesn’t bring up photos or reviews or too much details. So sometimes I have to go to Safari if I wanna check out a venue and see photos. Not sure if maybe it’s just user error, and there’s a way to see that so I’m gonna give it five stars regardless. Overall it’s an excellent app. It’s my main browser. Keep up the great work guys!

Issue 1: Http compatibility: On the iOS mobile browser version of Brave, there’s a function that lets you enable or disable a forced switch from http to the more secure https Protocol. However, the function that lets you disable it doesn't work. Even if you slide to have it disabled, webpages are still forcefully redirected to use https. The issue is that some websites are http only and will not function without that protocol. Even if shields in general are turned off, webpages still redirect to using https. It would be nice if the function to disable the switch was worked upon, or if a reason for why it can’t work is stated. I could accept if it’s just an iOS thing that nothing can be done about on Brave’s end. Issue 2: Missing video player: Some video players are completely missing when trying to play a video through the Brave browser. There’s just a black square where the player should be. To check whether it was a website issue or a Brave issue, I tested it by going to the exact same website and watching the same exact video through Brave, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. It worked on both chrome and Firefox, but not with Brave. I then turned off the shields to see if it work work then. Still a black square. I don’t know all too much about web development or what the specifics are, but I know that I love using Brave, and would love to see this issue resolved, if possible. Thank you!

What’s not to like right? This is hands down the fastest browser I’ve used on my Mac, iOS and Windows devices. Ads are blocked by default and it’s easy to make changes to the shields when they inadvertently block things that you want to see. Brave’s privacy focus is a huge selling point especially for people who follow tech and have noticed just how creepy the predictive algorithms are getting. One of the most interesting things is the Brave Rewards model and their solution to the current online advertising nightmare - the BAT (Basic Attention Token). Not only to they pay you for watching ads but the tech also promises an opportunity to upend the current broken system of Google-based ads and predictive marketing analytics. What they hope to do eventually is to put the power back consumer’s hands by paying us to view adds and allocating BAT to content providers based on the proportion of attention you give the site monthly. Popularity growth of the platform and additional investment and price increases for the BAT token will be required to get to a point where the system can potentially provide enough revenue to compete directly against Google etc. but Rome wasn’t built in a day. Give it a try and read up a little. I think you’ll like it too.