Most mobile growth of any browser in 2021 with over 10M downloads.Over 8 million users earning BAT via Brave Rewards.

Brave’s ad platform, where users earn BAT by opting in to view privacy-preserving Brave Ads (70% of ad revenue share), has greatly expanded as revenue has grown 4x over the past 12 months.

1.3 million Verified Creators, up 30% this year across YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, and more.

Search queries : 2.3 billion queries annualized (went from 0 to 190 million queries a month in less than 6 months, from public access in late June to December 2021).

The Brave ecosystem of course is not defined solely by our MAU count. This long term and sustainable growth reflects that user desire. Users all over the world are looking for a private, safe, and faster browsing experience, along with tools that give them independence from Big Tech. We also ended the year with over 15.5 million daily active users ( high water mark). Google is not particularly known for its privacy which is understandable that Brave is opting for its own inhouse search engine.For the fifth year in a row, we’ve doubled the number of our monthly active users, going from 24 million MAU on December 31st, 2020, to over 50 million by the end of 2021. In other words, existing users will still have their default search engine as Google or whatever you set it to be. However, if it happens that the search engine you prefer is not present, there is an option at the bottom of the list of search engines to add it right in front of the “other search engines”.Īt the end of the day, Brave’s change is only effective on subsequent installation of the browser and not existing users. Read More: What are Google Chrome Flags and how to turn them onįurthermore, if you decide not to choose Google as your search engine of choice, there are other options there you can choose from. Shortcut: You can just type “brave://settings/searchEngines” into the address bar and skip steps 1 to 3.

Step 4: Under “Default search engines”, click on the three dots in front of the search engine you want as default which in this case is Google and click on “Make deault”.Step 3: Select “Search engine” and click on “manage search engine”.Step 2: Enter settings close to the bottom of the menu list.

Step 1: Click on the menu icon at the top right corner.

How to make Google the default search engine on Brave Steps to make Google your default browser.

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