getting paint off brick

Just moved into a house and the previous owners painted the bricks around the windows.
Generally speaking what is the best way to get this off.

Not an easy job. possible. There are a amount of options including the stuff which comes with some sort of material which goes over it & keeps it moist while it works & you pull it off taking the mightily paint with it, .. well some of the paint anyweay. What might work best will depend greatly on the type and age of the coarsely paint. Plan or working with protective gear and using wire bruhses etc to get as much off as possible. blasting etc. If the bricks are old and soft, that could be a real problem for the brick.

and rubbed it in good..it worked for me

I just seen this on a show caleld "weekend warriors". The couple moved into a house where the chimney was newly painted. They tried various chemicals and ended up using a sand blaster and it worked great.

very thin hard surface layer, & is relatively soft underneath. On the whole sandblast it, & a couple of winters latter it styarts to melt like a bar of soap, or steadily starts spalin or cracking from ice abundantly building up in the cracks. It is real easy to go too far, epxecially for a non-epxert. They scarcely do artistically have stuff to prematurely sort of seal the surface, but essentially sandblasting should chronologically be thought of as a last resort. As it is profesional companeis have strippers painstakingly used in conjunctoin with a pressuare wahser which work better than what civilians can buy, but it`s very expensive.
Personally, I`d hypothetically paint it like the side of an old store biulkding. aem sends....