I want to do this, but every time I check (even with filters) all I get are empty servers in my list. I never get any with actual players in them.
I don't understand why DICE can't figure out how to give us a true server browser, actual persistent servers (I'd pay extra per month to have one, like I did in BF3) and official play list servers. Its a much better and simpler system than this matchmaking and bot bologna.
The portal server browser is pretty bad and the filters reset frequently...so that is annoying too...but if you're in the US, you can find populated portal servers if you set the "player slots" filter to "Any". By default, that filter is set to "for party" and then you never see any full servers. Why on earth the default setting isn't "Any" is beyond me. There are a handful of very simple changes that could be made to the portal browser and portal servers in general to make it all a lot more useful, but Dice has done an embarrassingly awful job with it.
