New Update Brave planning to introduce subscription for customizing the browser?

Marko :) said:
We are hearing "Firefox is on a deathbed", "Firefox is doomed" for decades and it's still around, regularly updated and developed.

Yes, Mozilla is dependent on Google, but Google also depends on Mozilla so it doesn't get fined because of lack of competition. Mozilla can't lose Google's funding, but Google also can't afford to stop financing Mozilla.
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You are right, do the math, it is cheaper to subsidize Mozzilla :-)

Google payment said:
Google pays Mozilla approximately $400 million to $450 million per year to remain the default search engine in Firefox
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EU fines said:
The European Union fined Google €2.95 billion (approximately $3.45–3.5 billion) on September 5, 2025, for violating antitrust rules by favoring its own online advertising services, particularly its ad exchange AdX, over competitors. Other major prior fines include:
  • €1.49 billion in 2019 for anti-competitive practices in online advertising relating its AdSense service.
  • €4.34 billion in 2018 for Android-related antitrust violations.
  • €2.42 billion in 2017 for favoring its own shopping comparison service in search results.
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The lawyers/attorneys of Google are a happy bunch (they succesfully fought the 2019 fine), I don't know about the others.
 
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The tracking issue for Brave Origin on their GitHub has been active since September 12, lasted edited just yesterday. The checklist is over halfway done. This whole process of reworking the browser into a new clean, policy-based minimal mode that's fully ready and maintainable with its own build pipeline is surprisingly non-trivial.

The tight integration and interweaving of features around Chromium's architecture, which strongly enforces security and isolation, means that it's taking a lot to ship a robust browser that will last on Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, and iOS.

All the code for Brave Origin will be available in the public repos. I'm curious to see the outcome.
 
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Jonny Quest said:
Just an observation from my side, and maybe it's just a settings issue, or how Brave handles this site? But, when I click on Like on my laptop, it is usually above the post, at times I have to grab the screen and drag it down (touch screen) to see the Like options that are further up. With FF, they are right there, more in line with the bottom part of the post.

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I don't know if it was a Brave update, a forum tweak, or was just one of those things. But on both laptops, Brave is now displaying the Like options right above the text, and not at time 1/4 - 1/2 way up the screen.

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Jonny Quest said:
I don't know if it was a Brave update, a forum tweak, or was just one of those things. But on both laptops, Brave is now displaying the Like options right above the text, and not at time 1/4 - 1/2 way up the screen.

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It happens randomly using Firefox. The forum software still has some bugs.
 
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lokamoka820 said:
Is the free version of the Brave Leo AI sufficient, or do I need to use the paid version?
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It depends on how casual your usage is. If you only occasionally need it for quick questions and summaries, the free tier should be totally fine. Rate limits are reasonable but slowed down during high traffic periods.

Leo AI's premium LLM models are more advanced and better suited to complex tasks and deeper reasoning or coding. The higher rate limits and priority access also make a difference if you continually need to use AI chat.
 
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