brave/brave-browser

Brave is beating GrapheneOS on update timeliness: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases Only if you use Nightly wait maybe not.

Brave has certainly said a lot of good things while doing quite [0] a lot [1] of bad [2] things [3] that make me think it's mostly just marketing to lower-knowledge users that's carrying it forward. I see so many 'privacy' influencers that recommend it and Chromium, and then Firefox with no mention of FOSS options like LibreFox, Tor Browser, IronFox, etc [0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15790 [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-browser-brave-busted-for-autocompleting-urls-to-versions-it-profits-from/ [2] https://www.xda-developers.com/brave-browser-installs-vpn-windows/ [3] https://www.atlas.science/news/the-shady-world-of-brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-trai…

… say, and I think they are less trustworthy than other actors. I'm not asking anyone to trust Mozilla, but anyone suggesting Mozilla is less trustworthy than Google probably has a bridge to sell you. Remember that being Chromium still means that Brave is reliant upon Google. That leads to things like this[0,1]. Remember, the chromium source code is quite large, which is why things like [0] aren't so easily found. I also want to quote a quote from [0.1] This is interesting because it is a clear violation of the idea that browser vendors should not give preference to their websites over anyone elses. That wouldn't be the first time people have found Google preferencing their browser and it is…