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Re:Mozilla Rally by alibert on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:56PM (#30063080)
Brave brings:

- Native adblocker based on uBlock Origin algo

- Proxy all requests to Google based service in use in Chromium such as Safebrowsing

- Added anti fingerprinting stuff on some web techs such as webgl, canvas, plugins

- Still open source (to be noted: the ads code, server side, is not)

- Everything documented on their wiki

- Trusted binaries unlike ungoogled-chromium

If you can set aside the crypto part of Brave, I believe this is the best Chromium based browser currently.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

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Re:Mozilla Rally by BrendanEich on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:43AM (#30175229)
We work closely with uBO folks, but as a browser we got a lot farther than Google allows an extension to go (and with Manifest V3 they're getting more restrictive). See the blog series at https://brave.com/privacy-updates/ and see also the work detailed at https://brave.com/research/. Thanks.
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