Re:The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the ...
by prepend on Saturday March 07, 2020 @08:20PM
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That’s a pretty small risk to take since it’s OSS and I can audit it, if so feel like it.
I think the risk they add from a security perspective offsets the risk Chrome brings from a privacy perspective.
Re:The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the ...
by jsjddbbwj on Saturday March 07, 2020 @12:18PM
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I know. I've been burnt before by Mozilla and Google. Brave will also mess up eventually. I'm just praying that there will be another good browser to hop to when that occurs!
Re:The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the ...
by johnphamous on Saturday March 07, 2020 @07:35PM
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Have you checked out Microsoft's Chromium Edge?
Re:The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the ...
by LessDmesg on Saturday March 07, 2020 @11:49PM
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It doesn't work. As in, can't render some perfectly renderable sites correctly. It seems Microsoft is chronically bad at making browsers, even when using a good ready-made engine.
Re:The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the ...
by jankiehodgpodge on Sunday March 08, 2020 @05:52AM
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What site in particular are you having trouble with? I haven't found a single problem in the few months it's been released.
It is adding a dependency on the Brave developers not to mess up and create security holes, in addition to whatever trust you place in the Chrome project itself. (A browser plugin requires somewhat less trust since it's sandboxed, but the permissions are still pretty scary.)
But I guess it's like buying an Android phone from anyone besides Google? Or installing packages from Debian and hoping they fix more security issues than they add, compared to the original developer. It's usually true, but not always.