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…some work (part 2 coming) but Brave has Containers support. https://brave.com/blog/containers/ https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/55380

comment by alibert · 2026-09-28 · in I switched to Brave

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story by thunderbong · 2026-09-26 · 0 comments

Brave is beating GrapheneOS on update timeliness: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases Only if you use Nightly wait maybe not.

comment by Cider9986 · 2026-09-04 · in Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

oh man and when Brave removed native IPFS support. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/37735

comment by scirob · 2026-08-24 · in IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

…and then Firefox with no mention of FOSS options like LibreWolf, Tor Browser, IronFox, etc [0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15790 [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-browser-brave-busted-f... [2]…

comment by paimapi · 2026-08-16 · in Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

…users who wished to purchase it, as a means of supporting Brave. Details are in the GitHub issue: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726 . > "and leaked DNS traffic when using Tor in its 'privacy' mode." Oh, this is one of my…

comment by jonathansampson · 2026-06-19 · in Leaving Mozilla

…at Brave). We're working through other issues with vertical tabs before we continue work on this :) https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/44345

comment by aguscruiz · 2026-01-08 · in Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

…at Brave). We're working through other issues with vertical tabs before we continue work on this :) https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/44345

comment by aguscruiz · 2026-01-08 · in Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser >This repository holds the build tools needed to build the Brave desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The web browser is here : https://github.com/brave/brave-core (8% of typescript)

comment by mrbn100ful · 2026-01-06 · in Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

The project is listed as 100% JavaScript on github https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

comment by VladVladikoff · 2026-01-06 · in Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

…and fingerprinting. You get your security, privacy, and out from under the boot of Google. [0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/39660 [0.1] https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs... [1]…

comment by godelski · 2025-09-24 · in Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

…https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/29... https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/41173#issuecom... I'm not sure how you can interpret forking open source codebases as a "shady" behavior (it's o

comment by antonok · 2025-08-31 · in Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

Annoyingly, Brave has disabled support for this. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/41164

comment by cs02rm0 · 2025-07-31 · in The Chrome Speculation Rules API allows the browser to preload and prerender

Brave has built in fingerprinting protection ( https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P... ), that's enabled by default. It seems like it's less aggressive than firefox's though (since firefox's fingerprint protection…

comment by mitkebes · 2025-07-24 · in Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

…to me - does Brave prevent it or not? Edit: some interesting background on what they do here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P...

comment by anonymousDan · 2025-07-24 · in Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/39028

comment by ddtaylor · 2025-06-08 · in Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?

Brave seems to remove these parameters from links. Discussion (and links to examples/docs): https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/35094

comment by kalli · 2025-05-30 · in Ask HN: Apps exposing users through share links

…5 days ago, but I redid my webserver a couple days ago. I sideloaded "BraveMonoarm64.apk" from https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.77.10... to a OnePlus 6 (LineageOS 22.2/Android 15) and…

comment by Espionage724 · 2025-04-26 · in Show HN: 2004Scape (RuneScape) singleplayer self-hosted Windows/Linux/FreeBSD

Brave appears to be opensource: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

comment by e44858 · 2025-03-12 · in Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google

…rejection of open source Chromium/Blink seems also to suffer from emotionalism over reason. See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... This is a choice we made. As I wrote in my last reply, I think we would have…

comment by BrendanEich · 2025-03-11 · in uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

Brave disables or removes a number of Chromium features: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

comment by Dotnaught · 2025-03-02 · in Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data

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story by jtnguyen · 2024-12-27 · 0 comments

…and I think it is good to have greater diversity, to exactly avoid situation susch as the one here. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10134

comment by freehorse · 2024-12-25 · in Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

Not so. The Chromium bits have the native tracking goo we neutralize, see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... .

comment by BrendanEich · 2024-12-08 · in What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser?

Ignorance is bliss, I'm here to bring enlightenment: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... https://brave.com/privacy-updates

comment by BrendanEich · 2024-11-23 · in DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

…to (rather minor, imho) privacy concerns. https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/76 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/17994

comment by vanviegen · 2024-10-25 · in Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

…supporting them [1][2]. [1]: https://community.brave.com/t/copy-link-to-highlight-text/28... [2]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/22906

comment by skeptrune · 2024-10-24 · in Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

…Brave is supporting[3]. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-... [2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15187 [3] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/28367

comment by pavon · 2024-10-11 · in "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

…you refer to is pretty much worthless: it doesn't mention many important fingerprinting APIs. [1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/35646

comment by codedokode · 2024-08-30 · in Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users

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Brave Deprecates IPFS Support

story by pr337h4m · 2024-08-28 · 7 comments

…progress. How do these features compare to Brave, which has Brave Shields and [copy clean link]( https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Copy-clean-link )?

comment by wild_pointer · 2024-07-16 · in Private Browsing 2.0

Brave's system for patching Chromium is great. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

comment by lele0108 · 2024-05-10 · in Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done

…have a test to catch that. Another person shared - but here's a link to our patching documentation: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromiu... You'll notice the actual patching itself is introduced with the caveat: >…

comment by bsclifton · 2024-02-23 · in Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

…chromium and rebasing the changes via git. They document how developers should "rebase" chromium: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Chromium-rebases... And it looks like way more work than doing it with git via git rebase…

comment by SushiHippie · 2024-02-23 · in Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

Still waiting on the Brave stable release with the patched version of chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/35013 Nightly should have the fix: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.63.59

comment by poorman · 2023-12-21 · in Google fixes 8th Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year

…those background updaters on you. https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/18/brave-is-installing-vpn-se... https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726 or how the most popular browser privacy test is run by a brave employee.. hmm guess which…

comment by pennybanks · 2023-11-27 · in Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

…company but I think it's incorrect to say they don't do anything for privacy. EDIT: better link - https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P...

comment by filterfiber · 2023-10-18 · in Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent

I know we like to get the pitchforks out, but, it appears to be accidental: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726

comment by mhsdef · 2023-10-18 · in Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent

…devs to finally implement Issue 9443 the "Bookmark All Tabs" button for Brave on Android[0]? [0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9443

comment by 1MachineElf · 2023-08-22 · in Brave Browser has an AI assistant chat now

Brave's adblocking seems decidedly worse than ublock origin. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16935 except on iOS where apple's restrictions are drastically limiting. You are so insistent that the feature built in primarily…

comment by michaelmrose · 2023-08-11 · in Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

You can view the brave browser repository yourself and see how they strip out a bunch of google crap: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser If you don't trust them, you can compile it on your own.

comment by komali2 · 2023-08-07 · in Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For

…to chrome, or can be detected/bypassed. Brave does them in-engine which is the better way to do it. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P...

comment by thewataccount · 2023-08-01 · in “Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web

It is clearly not a fork. They follow upstream Chromium and then apply patches, as explained here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser#update-brave . A fork diverges from a point and then doesn't rebase upstream after that. Eich is…

comment by lern_too_spel · 2023-07-28 · in Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin

Some more context here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8342 You can leave a comment if it's something you'd like to see as an option

comment by bsclifton · 2023-07-28 · in Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin

…of a corresponding Chromium release. [1] https://twitter.com/brave/status/1574822799700541446 [2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromiu...

comment by antonok · 2023-07-27 · in Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin

…them [1], most of them are just single file or small changes to compilation/default flags [1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

comment by augusto-moura · 2023-07-27 · in Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin

The post links to https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

comment by madeofpalk · 2023-07-27 · in Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin

I'm curious what Brave says to my issue: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/31897

comment by aaronclong · 2023-07-26 · in Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

Looks like it's in the beta https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/22482 .

comment by trishmapow2 · 2023-07-15 · in Tor is not just for anonymity (2022)

…year: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/9982188779405-Wh... with mixed results early on: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/26013

comment by cf100clunk · 2023-07-01 · in Firefox 115, Nightly supports a new “copy clean” link context menu action