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Re:Brave launches 1.0 by hk__2 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:00PM (#21530705)
> It’s just a renderer.

It’s just a renderer that calls home with hardcoded references to Google’s services. You can’t avoid Google if you use Chromium’s source code without patching it [1].

[1]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Re:Brave launches 1.0 by Evanito on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:15PM (#21532170)
> It’s just a renderer that calls home with hardcoded references to Google’s services.

And unless you believe in ghosts putting the calls home back when you aren't looking, that isn't a problem for Brave [1].

[1]: https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff...