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brave-browser
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brave / brave-browser

brave-browser

Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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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Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:58 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year203 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-06-21 03:22:42 UTC to 2026-09-28 20:15:01 UTC.

0102030402018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 0 submissions, 11 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 30 mentions; 0 submissions, 30 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 31 mentions; 6 submissions, 25 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 43 mentions; 2 submissions, 41 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 2 submissions, 30 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 2 submissions, 20 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 0 submissions, 11 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC30030
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC31625
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC43241
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC32230
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22220
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13211
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 12, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
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. Documentation and guides: Additional technical information, primarily for developers. Contributing Please see the contributing guidelines. To get started building Brave, hop over to the Wiki. Security Policy Please see the security policy. Community 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/. Follow @brave on X for important news and announcements.
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What Hacker News says

11 sources
godelski·Sep 24, 2025
I think you've missed the point entirely. The point is that if everyone is using a single browser (not just Chrome/Chromium) then that actor gets disproportionate control over the internet. That's not good for anyone. The specific gripe to Chromium is that _Google_ gets that 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 t
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heir websites over anyone elses. That wouldn't be the first time people have found Google preferencing their browser and it is pretty known this happens with YouTube. Do we really want ANY company having such control over the internet? Do we really want Google to? > https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity > https://brave.com/transparency/ I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me here. That Brave has 64% of the number of users as Firefox? That Brave users really like Gemini, Coinbase, and Uphold? That Brave users are linking their Brave account to sites like Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, GitHub, Vimeo, and Twitch? That Brave Ads is tracking via the state level? Honestly I have more questions looking at the Brave "transparency" report, as it seems to have more information about users than Firefox... If you're extra concerned about privacy and that's your reason for Brave, then may I suggest the Mullvad browser[2]? It is a fork of Firefox and they work with Tor to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You get your security, privacy, and out from under the boot of Google. [0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/39660 [0.1] https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs... [1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-to-kill-... [2] https://mullvad.net/en/browser
In Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
antonok·Aug 31, 2025
Are you referring to the Manifest V2 extensions supported by Brave? The original extension creators were made fully aware of those plans ahead of time and have been in contact with Brave since then, e.g.: https://github.com/hackademix/noscript/issues/359 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/29... https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/41173#issuecom... I'm not sure how you can interpret forking open source codebases as a "shady" behavior (it's one of the most important reasons to use open source in the first place), but in this case there is a high demand for said extensions and Brave has provided the only way to continue doing so on a Chromium rendering engine. (I am one of the devs who worked on the spec for this feature)
In Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
mitkebes·Jul 24, 2025
Brave has built in fingerprinting protection (https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P...), that's enabled by default. It seems like it's less aggressive than firefox's though (since firefox's fingerprint protection is disabled by default because it breaks things), and it doesn't seem to be able to block this companies fingerprinting tech. I got the same ID in a regular window and private browsing window. The brave shields setting section also has an option for blocking scripts, which may work. It prevents the demo from being able to show an identifier for the user at all, but I'm not sure if it's preventing identification or just preventing the displaying of the identification.
In Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)
BrendanEich·Mar 11, 2025
Separate reply that ritual impurity or blind black-box rejection of open source Chromium/Blink seems also to suffer from emotionalism over reason. See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... This is a choice we made. As I wrote in my last reply, I think we would have died trying to get Gecko/Graphene with a Web front end up to competitive scratch vs. Chrome (nm Firefox). A Firefox fork would have gone over badly with some potentially large number of Mozilla/Firefox fans, and we'd still lack key elements not part of the Mozilla open source (at the time, e.g., Adobe's CDM for HTML5 DRM). On the upside we'd have more UX customizability. But our choice of Chromium/Blink (via Electron, so we had Web front end upside without Firefox extensions) was not a slam dunk choice. It involved trade-offs, as all engineering does.
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One downside is we have to audit and network-test for leaks and blunders, which often come from Chromium upstream: https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1898529583546421322
In uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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