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by vovavili14 hours ago |
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upvoteby culi3 hours ago|
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It's on a time limit. Chromium deprecated MV2 but still keeps the webRequest API in the codebase. Google could at any time decide to strip it entirely. Or it could just stop working due to lack of maintenance as Chromium grows.

Brave is relying on a fork that takes advantage of the fact that the webRequest API is still technically there

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upvoteby AstralSerenity11 hours ago|
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Peter Theil was an angel investor in Brave. That alone is all the reason privacy-minded users need to avoid it.
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upvoteby TiredOfLife2 hours ago|
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As someone who lives in a country bordering russia, I will certainly switch to Brave now.
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upvoteby 10 hours ago|
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upvoteby fragmede10 hours ago|
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Because Peter Thiel gave them some money, there's some secret backdoor code that's sending all your information to Palantir?
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upvoteby rwz10 hours ago|
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It's quite likely that Brave itself collects data on your usage and shares at least some of it with Palantir.

This isn't such an outrageous assumption to make here.

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upvoteby EbNar5 hours ago|
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There's no need to make assumptions. The source code is out there. Please, show us the relevant commits which do what you said.
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upvoteby tredre36 hours ago|
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Telemetry can be disabled in Brave. Any kind of history/bookmark syncing is opt-in.

You're just spreading FUD unless you have evidence that Brave funnels usage data in secret.

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upvoteby shooly10 hours ago|
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Firefox also collects and sells data to no one really knows who.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

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upvoteby rwz8 hours ago|
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I mean sure, but there's a bit of a difference between "sells data to no one really knows who" and "sells data to no one really knows who AND PALANTIR" which the original commenter seem to be flagging as a problem.
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upvoteby inigyou8 hours ago|
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"no one really knows who" is probably also Palantir or someone who resells to Palantir.
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upvoteby shooly7 hours ago|
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Well Thiel investing in Brave once at the beginning doesn't necessarily mean that Palantir is getting any data now (even though it's presented as if it was a fact in other comments here). It's probable, but really it's just speculation, just like anyone can speculate about who's getting data from Firefox.

But at least with Brave, the initial funding information was made public, so there's already more information available to users in comparison with Mozilla. Mozilla just said: "there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners" - that could mean literally anyone.

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upvoteby downrightmike10 hours ago|
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That is their MO
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upvoteby jollyllama13 hours ago|
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It's good but I find they EOL devices/OS's earlier than Firefox.
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upvoteby matheusmoreira11 hours ago|
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It's certainly better than stock Chrome but Firefox becoming relevant again is still the ideal option.
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upvoteby culi3 hours ago|
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I think it's necessary for the future of the web. Ever since Opera gave up on Presto and Edge gave up on Trident, we've seen a massive and sudden consolidation towards Chromium. It's sad how quickly we forgot the lessons we learned from the days of IE's dominance
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upvoteby matheusmoreira2 hours ago|
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Sad indeed. What trully pisses me off though is the fact Mozilla has like hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, possibly a billion dollars, and yet they continue to neglect Firefox.
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upvoteby ipsum29 hours ago|
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Brave is great. Works across windows/mac/ios/android/linux.
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upvoteby iLoveOncall4 hours ago|
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Brave is malware, I don't understand how anyone on HN can use it, baffles me every time.

They've literally been caught MITMing web pages for their own financial gains.

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upvoteby TiredOfLife2 hours ago|
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In that case Firefox is also out. They have been caught auto installing random hidden extensions with full read/write access to all websites and blocking uBlock Origin from working on, for example, the Firefox extension site.
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upvoteby iLoveOncall11 minutes ago|
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> have been caught auto installing random hidden extensions with full read/write access to all websites

Lol, they chose to ship parts of their browser as extensions, it's definitely now "random extensions".

> and blocking uBlock Origin from working on, for example, the Firefox extension site

Any other example? Bypassing an extension on their own website has absolutely no link to the browser itself being a malware, this is ridiculous.

I don't even use Firefox and I think Mozilla is a shit organization misusing its funds to pursue bad ventures lately, but even I think your claims are bullshit.

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upvoteby culi3 hours ago|
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upvoteby odidiejdiwjd11 hours ago|
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Isn’t Brave just another Chromium variant?

Chromium is detestable. In whatever form it takes.

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upvoteby armadyl11 hours ago|
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What’s detestable is Firefox’s lack of security and Mozilla’s priorities surrounding it compared to Chromium

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1unhtxu/initial...

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