They’re actually not redirecting now as traffic has subsided. But as I remember, they added a 301 permanent redirect instead of 302 and I immediately thought that’s a bad idea. Probably that’s why you’re still getting redirected to the stream.

Redirects are usually cached on the browser, so you can just clear the site’s cache.

Brave search works well.

Does brave index data on it’s own or is it pulled from Google/Bing?

It has! Check appearance in settings.

One thing I just noticed is the privacy policy. It proxies the data to their server and can collect analytics. I do understand it’s to circumvent CORS, but still we’ve to keep that in mind.

NSFW restrictions don’t apply until July 5th.

You’ve understood it correctly. I’ll copy the comment that explains it nicely:

Reddit apps like Boost use something called an API key to authenticate to Reddit’s servers. All redditors using unpatched Boost connect using the same API key. The big change to Reddit’s pricing is that they will only allow up to 100 free requests per minute for each API key. Because there are thousands of people using Boost, this would quickly exceed Reddit’s rate limit, and the price for all those requests becomes massive.
What this patch does is allow you to use your own personal API key, rather than the same official Boost key as everyone else. You get your own free 100 requests per minute and are able to keep using Boost without getting ratelimited.

NSFW content still won’t be available with this method though.
On iOS this can be done using sideloading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14nizkh/use_apollo_with_personal_api_key

DoD: “We are not supporting Chrome at this time due to adblocking changes, use our Firefox extension to stay safe”

r/trains
r/tropicalweather
r/IdiotsInCars

And many more…

You’re right. It was barely useful for me since I always have the phone face-up, to see who’s calling. Although I really like the stock Android experience on the Phone (1), it’s fast and smooth.