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Because the \"enable previews\" option is easily accessible, I feel that a good percentage of our users are enabling it automatically with the expectation that the \"preview\" build will be somewhat equal to the release in terms of quality which isn't the case.\r\n\r\nWe've had several instances in the past few months where we've released a preview version that either:\r\n\r\n* completely breaks and stops launching (this has happened a few times)\r\n* crashes every few minutes making the product unstable and unusable\r\n\r\nWhen this happens, we usually get a large influx of support requests/rants/complaints via various social media channels. We're most likely losing users every time a preview build completely breaks the entire Brave experience. These users shouldn't have been on the preview build from the start.\r\n\r\nWe should still allow users to enable \"preview\" builds, but we need to ensure that only advanced users that are aware of the risks are using previews, and not regular users who might think that the \"preview\" build is basically an equivalent to the release build. We could either:\r\n\r\n* hide the \"preview\" toggle deeper into the settings (makes it harder to find/enable)\r\n* remove it entirely from Brave and require a environment variables to download previews\r\n\r\nCC'ing @bbond @aekeus, @bsclifton, @LaurenWags, @srirambv "}}
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