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Re:Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time... by mcbits on Sunday June 23, 2019 @06:04AM (#20254374)
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.
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Re:Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time... by krn on Sunday June 23, 2019 @06:38AM (#20254561)
> 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-...

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Re:Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time... by mcbits on Sunday June 23, 2019 @06:45AM (#20254597)
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.
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