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Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

203 mentions on Hacker News by 145 people: 15 stories, 188 comments · first 2018-06-21 · latest 2026-09-28

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  1. Thank god Brave has field trials disabled by default [1], among many other Google "services" [2]. [1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/4283 [2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
  2. …out of your cryptocurrency.[1] (Yes, I'm aware of the changes since the scandal broke[2].) [0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1052#issuecomm... [1] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761 [2]…
    comment by pushcx · 2019-11-13 · in Brave launches 1.0
  3. …Brave employee) have the deviations (things we disable or patch out) from Chromium called out here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
    comment by bsclifton · 2019-11-13 · in Brave launches 1.0
  4. I am, and you are indeed correct. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/413 The notification if very discreet, but it did have a button in the toolbar to promp me to install it.
    comment by dkhenry · 2019-11-13 · in Brave launches 1.0
  5. …work because Brave incorrectly [1] blocks their cookies, even with the "shield" turned off. [1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/6099 and several others.
    comment by atombender · 2019-11-13 · in Brave launches 1.0
  6. edit2: Nevermind all this, Brave did in fact implement protected content this earlier this year https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/413 I still can't use brave to watch netflix on Linux. Its a great product and I love shifting…
    comment by dkhenry · 2019-11-13 · in Brave launches 1.0
  7. If you're implying Brave is not open-source: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/LICENSE
  8. …chromium. Yes they have. They had their own browser previously but have since given up on that. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser Chromium is listed right on the readme.
  9. …reliably, ever since I tried it long ago it has been plagued with issues, many still unresolved.. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/search?q=bookmark+syn...
  10. The team has been capturing deviations from Chromium on a wiki page here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... The page goes over (high level) how the project is built and links to patches where functionality was…
    comment by bsclifton · 2019-08-29 · in Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher
  11. …protocol. We have some information regarding the confirmation protocol here, for those interested. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-and-pri... Aside from providing advertising that's private by default, our ad platform…
    comment by lukemulks · 2019-08-29 · in Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher
  12. …protection There's a list of ways that Brave deviates from Chromium here for quick comparison: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
    comment by bsclifton · 2019-08-29 · in Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher
  13. Yes, I know those are Git tags. Click on them to find associated binaries. For instance, https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.71.44 . Not all tags have binaries, but most do. Those that reach a build channel always do.
  14. …haven't focused on it. We will have to assess the work involved but will put it on our backlog. [0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5830
  15. You can get older (and many incremental) builds from https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/tags . Hope this helps! There is desire within the team for reproducible builds, and I'll see to it that these coals are stoked. Our intent is to…
  16. Please clarify if I'm missing your point, but you can build Brave today. See github.com/brave/brave-browser. Let me know if you run into any issues.
  17. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5057
  18. It's fetching brave's binary. That's not what I meant by packaging. src = fetchurl { url = " https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v${... sha256 = "1lbajxnxqkd422rckfjm65pwwzl66v7anq4jrzxi29d5x7abl3c1"; }; Also, bad look…
  19. …still whitelist Facebook trackers? Is there a way to opt-out of Facebook tracking on Brave for iOS? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1108
  20. > Is Brave 100% open source? They have the project on github so I guess the answer is yes... https://github.com/brave/brave-browser The business model is also quite smart, since the users get paid BAT tokens for viewing ads.
  21. Isn't it open source? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  22. There's Brave https://brave.com/ https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
    comment by alexhawke · 2019-05-30 · in Waterfox Browser
  23. …to ad blocking. See for instance https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09155 The browser is also open-source: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  24. …ps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19678914 [1] https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers/issues/121 [2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/819#issuecomme...
    comment by humblebee · 2019-04-24 · in IPFS Camp 2019
  25. Doesn't Brave have Widevine in it? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/31
  26. This is a great point- I reviewed with team and created https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3301 to track this (folks are welcome to give it thumbs up). The fix for this should be something we can deliver in our next product…
  27. What makes you believe so ? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1108 I'm trying to figure out if the code is still active case, but this is a quite recent ticket (after the release of the Chromium-based edition, and updated 4…
  28. Brave is completely open source and the ads are opt-in. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser https://github.com/brave-intl You're right the business model is advertising, very similar to Google. However the key difference is that they're…
  29. This is by design. They list all the things they do to de-googlify Chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... including removing the translation code so that information is not transmitted to google. See also…
    comment by WA9ACE · 2018-12-17 · in The New Brave Is 22% Faster
  30. No, it's open source: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser I've never used it because I kind of thought it was a weird cryptocurrency project. I honestly don't think it provides much value over Chromium + uBlock + uMatrix. But it's just…
    comment by nathan_f77 · 2018-12-07 · in Goodbye, EdgeHTML
  31. …and you can see it syncs from Chromium [1] https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver [2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  32. The browser Brave is working on implementing native support for IPFS so the gateway is not needed: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/819
  33. …as well which is built on their own degooglified chromium. They list what they've removed here https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
  34. …on Chromium, but differ from Chrome in many ways. Here's a little information to expound on that: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
    comment by jonathansampson · 2018-10-06 · in Brave – A private, secure and fast browser
  35. …in private tabs and working IPFS integration on -dev channel since beginning of this year https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/819
  36. …from the official brave-apt. Here is the github issue where you are tracking when it will be done https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/413 Also for good measure my version info Brave: 0.23.105 V8: 6.8.275.24 rev:…
  37. …We talk about features before they're shipped, our source is open to all (github.com/brave/browser-laptop, github.com/brave/brave-browser, github.com/brave/browser-core, etc.), and we regularly host AMAs. The openness of this company…
    comment by jonathansampson · 2018-09-12 · in Brave files adtech complaint against Google
  38. …base so all Chrome extensions will be compatible. ETA for releasable build is Sept 7 according to: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/milestone/3