• 133arc585@lemmy.ml
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      Brave is built on Chromium. So, by default, no they are not safe from this. Without extra effort, Brave will have this feature. I don’t know if its feasible but there’s a chance the Brave devs can remove the code from their distribution, but that’s the best case scenario and just puts them in the same position as Firefox: they get locked out because they refuse to implement the spec.

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        Brave devs have stated that their fork of chromium is essentially degoogled, detracked,etc. Just the browser core and built from there… They don’t automatically add in new features into their fork just because chromium does.

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          I see, thanks for the clarification. I wasn’t sure about the specifics of how they produce their product from the upstream source.

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        I have to imagine they will strip it because if they don’t, it’ll be dead to all of their users.

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          It may be dead to its users anyway depending on how forceful Google is with this. If Brave doesn’t work on 98.8% of all websites with advertising or indeed on 49.5% of all websites (approximately Google’s ad network’s reach), it becomes as niche as lynx.

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            Yeah Brave would probably be fucked then. If you can’t have privacy anyway, might as well use Chrome.

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          No brave users don‘t care. Brave proved how untrustworthy they are and in any case their business model is unethical yet they still have a cult like following plus a group of crypto bros that are obsessed with getting digital pennies.

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            I’m a Brave user that certainly cares. They’re not untrustworthy.