The Private Windows with Tor mode let you browse without anyone in the middle (your ISP, an attacker on public wifi, etc.) knowing exactly what you're up to or injecting attacks into your web traffic, which is a nice touch.

The integrated ad blocker is written in Rust and is roughly 70 times faster than Adblock Plus and 30 times faster than ublock-origin. Of course, on slow internet speeds ad blocking is not even optional on the modern web, but on any computer, having the blocker take up so few resources is nice because the system is free to do other things instead.

Brave also includes an optional feature called Brave Rewards. Off by default (good), the user can choose to turn it on and receive "privacy respecting" ad notifications on their desktop, that is driven by analytics performed by the browser without revealing any of the user's personal information. Brave makes money by taking 30% of the revenue and giving you 70%, as cryptocurrency called BATs, or Basic Attention Tokens.

The user chooses what to do with their BATs, and can keep them and trade them out for cash, or they can donate them to sites that they find useful.

In my observation, Wikipedia and several other non-profits accept BAT money. See; https://batgrowth.com/publishers/charities

Finally, Brave just isn't as pushy about having the user sign up for accounts or using a particular search engine. On the initial setup, it asks users to pick their preferred engine from a list (I chose DuckDuckGo), and it manages sync (Bookmarks and BAT wallet) with other devices using blockchain technology, which can be set up by showing a QR code to your phone and other devices, or entering a hashed string.

When it seems most web browsers have already made your decisions for you and might actually lean on you to keep it that way, and make you toggle settings on 14 different pages (Hello Microsoft) to opt-out of privacy invading junk that nobody would say yes to, it's refreshing to see Brave not getting in the way.