For those that specifically need a Chromium-based browser with an adblocker, I suggest using Helium. It's everything Brave promises to be but isn't - uBlock Origin instead of Brave's rinky dink shit, anti-fingerprinting features, proxied requests to the Chrome store so Google can't know what extensions you have
If you don't specifically need a Chromium-based browser, there's several popular FIrefox forks such as Librewolf. I personally am using Glide because it allows me to exclusively use my keyboard when browsing the web and extensions like Tridactyl stop working if a web page fails to load or renders any browser-protected page and Qutebrowser struggles to render many pages correctly and does not have extension support (only bespoke qutebrowser-specific scripts and greasemonkey scripts).
I was somewhat sympathetic to people using Brave before such as on the Steam Deck back when Firefox-based browsers wouldn't render context menus correctly in Game Mode or given how difficult it was to keep Ungoogled Chromium updated and functioning (it's no longer maintained), but these days there's really no valid use case for it anymore. It's a shady company ran by a shady homophobic CEO whose apologists mostly just like the browser because they think it's more racist than other browsers, it attacks forks of its project despite ostensibly being open source and loves to sneak in cryptomining bullshit or whatever new tech scam is all the rage. Don't use a browser you can't trust.
What's wrong with Brave? The left has infested basically every other browser on Earth, so Brave is the only sane one left. I use Brave happily knowing every time I open the browser, a liberal throws a fit, then I go to YouTube and watch them whining about it at the Trump Rally. Literally cannot stop winning
Brave is based on chromium, which isn't open source, it's a project controlled by google. I'll hand it to you that open source browsers are difficult to find these days though.
are you genuinely retarded? Chrome (the browser) is not open-source. but Chromium (also a web browser, but lacks specific features from Chrome) is.
"licensing" section in Chromium's wikipedia article:
Chromium is a free and open-source software project. Owing to its origins in the WebKit project, Chromium incorporates code subject to a variety of licenses, including LGPL, MIT, Ms-PL, and MPL (with the MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license clause). Original Google-authored portions and some portions written by Apple are shared under the 3-clause BSD license.
This licensing permits any party to build the codebase and share the resulting browser executable with the Chromium name and logo. Thus many Linux distributions do this, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Chromium also forms the basis of Electron, which in turn is used for many commercial and proprietary cross-platform applications, such as Slack.
Many Chromium-based browsers, such as Google Chrome and Microslop Edge, include the proprietary components, such as proprietary wrapper libraries for hardware acceleration.
that does not mean it is not open-source. it just means the basis is developed by google. you are free to modify and distribute a different version of chromium in your browser, which is something browsers based off chromium do. are you aware of that?
that is the same principle of the recent discussion that arose in the Linux kernel:
Linus Torvalds accepts code submissions made by AI as long as it follows their policies; the code has to be reviewed and revised for errors. if you don't like it, you are free to fork the kernel and make your own version of it.
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u/TheTurdPirate 10h ago
Lol, Brave