These two combined issues have made using this browser unbearable and I have switched to Internet Explorer. It would go from running smoothly to choppy and back again up until fairly recently it has stayed choppy. The audio would run perfectly, but the video wouldn't run smoothly at all. Recently there has been a on and off situation where videos would lag/chop. This is extremely annoying especially when I'm trying to work or do something important.

If there's audio, it keeps playing and I can type and use the browser, but I can't see what's happening because everything is frozen leaving me with the only option of closing the window and reopening it with the same tabs. When I open up the browser after a few seconds to a few minutes, Brave just freezes. Although I don't remember when it all started (almost a year ago), Brave has been increasingly more difficult to work with and the less I want to continue using it. I enjoyed over a year of YouTube and Spotify running ad free up until it didn't.

While I can say that I'm very happy with how it functions and its privacy features, I downloaded it for the purpose of ad blocking.

I have been using the Brave Browser for about 2-3 years.

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