Still waiting on the Brave stable release with the patched version of chromium
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/35013
Nightly should have the fix: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.63.59
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Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
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Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
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edit2: Nevermind all this, Brave did in fact implement protected content this earlier this year https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/413 I still can't use brave to…
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Brave Browser
This repository is not needed for building the browser and only holds issues, releases and the wiki. The source code and contributions are at https://github.com/brave/brave-core.
You can visit our website to get the latest stable release.
Resources
Issues: Bug reports and feature requests for the Brave Browser.
Releases: Releases of Brave Browser hosted on GitHub. See Brave Release Schedule for more information.
Wiki: Documentation for developers, administrators, and power users. User-facing documentation is available at the Brave help center.
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Contributing
Please see the contributing guidelines.
To get started building Brave, hop over to the Wiki.
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Join the Q&A community if you'd like to get more involved with Brave. You can ask for help,
discuss features you'd like to see, and a lot more. We'd love to have your help so that we can continue improving Brave.
You can also ask questions and interact in the community-guest channel on Brave Software's Slack.
Help us translate Brave to your language by submitting translations at https://explore.transifex.com/brave/brave_en/.
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22 sourceswell i guess you can say spyware but piece of crap is probably not accurate. i mean its got the most features by far and seemingly has the most resources and manpower being dedicated for development and upgrade. crap is not so accurate.
also because a company uses a lot of tracking on their product doesnt make them an AD company lol.
but lets not get it twisted every browser is technically spyware thats the business of web browsers... i mean brave is to me the most deceitful. for one a VPN that installs background processes for windows users even if you dont want it. reinstalls on updates. and you know how much brave loves to force those background updaters on you.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/18/brave-is-installing-vpn-se...
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726
or how the most popular browser privacy test is run by a bra
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ve employee.. hmm guess which browser scores the highest and a favorable testing environment with the settings
https://privacytests.org/ he eventually disclosed his employer in the back area of that website somewhere so thats better i guess.
another one is how certain settings on brave search always reverts back on. or just one the send analytics one. if you use search on a different browser not their own. and etc.
and firefox is funded in large part by google.. do you really think they dont share information?
honestly acting like your browser is superior because no tracking is so silly lol. just use whatever browser you want and tune settings to your liking. harden if you must and move on. is it that much of a hassel? would you rather pay subscription for no tracking?
youll never not be tracked by ads on a free model its too much incentive and the internet is too controlled. you know when you use these product you pay with your privacy and ads its honestly a great deal. at least for me and probably most of the users. imagine paying monthly for edge having time limit package tiers, having to buy packs of google searches, websites have a entrance fee if they dont sell products.
btw im on thorium on linux i dont have a edge/microsoft bias. nor am i some shill for big companies i tend to use alternatives. but im not a sucker anymore for the illusion of privacy nor am i a big company fear monger.
oh ya also who said they are banning ubo?
> If you actually care about privacy rather than want to pay lip service to some marketing,
I disagree that it's lip service Brave has a ton of engine level privacy patches https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches
To my understanding you can't match it with just js extensions.
Only firefox on the highest security mode comes close I think?
Or ungoogled chromium? (brave has most of their patches IIRC)
Are there other options that have this number of patches? I'm not saying I like the company but I think it's incorrect to say they don't do anything for privacy.
EDIT: better link - https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P...
In Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consentI know we like to get the pitchforks out, but, it appears to be accidental:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726
In Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consentDear Brave Leo, how do I convince the Brave devs to finally implement Issue 9443 the "Bookmark All Tabs" button for Brave on Android[0]?
[0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9443
In Brave Browser has an AI assistant chat nowBrave's adblocking seems decidedly worse than ublock origin. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16935 except on iOS where apple's restrictions are drastically limiting.
You are so insistent that the feature built in primarily because the platform you've chosen has limited your ability to do what literally every other platform can do. I know there are some benefits privacy wise to the Apple ecosystem but it appears that Apple continues to "refuse to address" the need for actual browsers other than safari on iPhone rather than skins on top of Webkit.
So neither party is doing what you please but you gave hundreds to thousands of dollars to one and nothing to the other so perhaps go ask the fellow who has all of your money if they can implement the feature.
Alternatively wait for some combination of law and or technology to work a
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You can view the brave browser repository yourself and see how they strip out a bunch of google crap: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
If you don't trust them, you can compile it on your own.
In Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood ForFWIW brave genuinely has multiple privacy patches that are useful and can't be done properly with extensions in chrome.
Several of these either can't be done via a js extension to chrome, or can be detected/bypassed. Brave does them in-engine which is the better way to do it.
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P...
In “Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the WebIt is clearly not a fork. They follow upstream Chromium and then apply patches, as explained here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser#update-brave. A fork diverges from a point and then doesn't rebase upstream after that. Eich is lying.
In Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinSome more context here:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8342
You can leave a comment if it's something you'd like to see as an option
In Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinWhat exactly do you mean by "modify Mv3"? Brave committed to continuing support for Mv2 [1]. Adding native adblocking capabilities is also definitely a more complex change than just bundling an adblocking extension.
Brave maintains patches in a very specific way [2] to ensure maintainability. My impression is that Kiwi's patches are structured in a way that technically works but isn't easy to keep rebasing on top of upstream changes. Kiwi's been chronically outdated compared to upstream Chromium whereas Brave generally gets updated within a day of a corresponding Chromium release.
[1] https://twitter.com/brave/status/1574822799700541446
[2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromiu...
In Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinMost of the divergences are already compile flags or command line flags on upstream. They are just disabling it by default. Is not a Brave-only thing, but different browsers have different settings disabled, the community that compiles the browser from source also pushes those features to be conditionally added. Eg. Debian, Arch or other distros, could have WEI disabled on their chromium distribution, forks like Edge and Vivaldi could disable GAIA, etc.
Just give a look at the divergence issues and the PRs solving them [1], most of them are just single file or small changes to compilation/default flags
[1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
In Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinThe post links to https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
In Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinI'm curious what Brave says to my issue: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/31897
In Google is already pushing WEI into ChromiumLooks like it's in the beta https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/22482.
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