We scrubbed and stubbed chromium front end code of all sorts of stateful requests to gstatic and other Google domains. We have Mark Pilgrim (11 years on Chrome at Google) working for us along with top people from Igalia. We've little-snitched as well as grepped. Some of the signaling bottoms out in common objects, which make stubbing easy. Anyway, we've nullified all the surveillance.

A note on this WaPo story: I spent an hour with the reporter on the phone on 6/13 and practically wrote whole sentences in the piece. I've been calling Chrome spyware since last year. For some reason the piece ended up excluding not only Brave but Safari, which has deep anti-tracking history. Anyway, the story is getting out, and consciousness does not go backward.

Brave is built upon Electron, which is built upon Chromium (not Chrome). Electron and Chromium are both open source, unlike Chrome, although development is still concentrated in Google and GitHub/Microsoft. So I imagine it's fine unless something egregious happens with those projects and there isn't a strong enough community to maintain a clean fork.

> Brave is built upon Electron, which is built upon Chromium (not Chrome).

Brave has been built directly upon Chromium since December 2018[1].

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328781/brave-browser-...

Oops! I actually thought about double-checking that before writing it, but I vaguely remember reading some list of reasons why they had initially gone with Electron instead of Chromium, so I assumed it was still true.

Brendan Eich is against LGBT rights. For this reason I will never use Brave.

Here's the first link from a search https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9tsg2h/i_didnt_...

Was against, but AFAIK not anymore https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/