Brave browser reached 101 million monthly active users and 42 million daily active users this September, marking a new record in the project’s history. At the same time, Brave Search, the project’s privacy-focused search engine that launched in 2021 and relies on its own web index, has grown to 1.6 billion monthly search queries and 20 billion per year. The announcement notes that not all queries came from Brave Browser, where it is the default search engine, roughly 8% coming from Chrome users. Brave is a privacy-focused web browser created by Brendan Eich, first released in 2016. It blocks ads and trackers by default, which increases performance, and integrates crypto features. In 2021, the project announced that it reached the 50 million active users milestone, a significant growth…