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…without ref. This experience sucks, but at least the refs aren't fully hardcoded. Github issue: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10129

comment by paulcarroty · 2020-06-07 · in The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

Following it further we can even see the pull request and the requirements. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9302 Interesting as I didn’t realize Brave did all their development out in the open like this. “ Similar to top site…

comment by javagram · 2020-06-07 · in The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

Basically … No. Brave has all the Google integrations removed. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

comment by mthoms · 2020-05-20 · in New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

> Brave doesn’t make it easy to see the changes they made without installing the software https://github.com/brave/brave-browser > and likely having to buy their crypto to test it I have 24 BAT and I didn't buy them. I donate some of what…

comment by ketamine__ · 2020-05-19 · in New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

…be able to reinvent the web with total freedom. View/modify PWA manifest on web-app/shortcut export https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7729

comment by seph-reed · 2020-05-16 · in Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron

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Brave is promoting etoro affiliate program and scamming its users

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story by JamesTheHacker · 2020-03-20 · 1 comment

…crop up at any time[1]. [0]: https://community.brave.com/t/brave-sync-temporarily-disable... [1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7639

comment by wilkystyle · 2020-02-26 · in Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together

Wrong: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... -- and that is just what we strip and stub. We add other value, but in any case, your "... with a different settings page" statement is on its face false.

comment by BrendanEich · 2020-02-14 · in Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75

…said they would fix this and then let the GitHub issue languish for at least a year at this point. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7758

comment by smolder · 2020-01-23 · in “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”

…raid user privacy, and we strip out front end and middleware tracking from chromium/Blink. See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... . You have “who pays” exactly backwards about optional Brave Rewards in your…

comment by BrendanEich · 2020-01-17 · in Mozilla lays off 70

…to backup their claims ;) 1: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/wiki/Fingerprinting-... 2: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5614 3: https://github.com/w3cping/tracking-issues/issues 4:…

comment by pes10k · 2019-12-28 · in Brave Isn't Bad

…requests [1] to Google to ensure they do not get the details of the website you are visiting. 1. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Proxy-redirected...

comment by turblety · 2019-12-25 · in Brave Isn't Bad

…all to do with a company that does business through misrepresentation as a standard practice. [0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/4641#issuecomm...

comment by pushcx · 2019-12-07 · in Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch

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-...

comment by rbdeveloper · 2019-11-15 · in Google Chrome experiment crashes browser tabs, impacts companies worldwide

…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

…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

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

…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

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

If you're implying Brave is not open-source: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/LICENSE

comment by nullspace · 2019-11-09 · in Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018)

…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.

comment by yoasif_ · 2019-10-12 · in A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

…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...

comment by tmikaeld · 2019-09-08 · in Brave Becomes the Most Downloaded Web Browser in Japan

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

…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

…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

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.

comment by jonathansampson · 2019-08-28 · in What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

…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

comment by obelix150 · 2019-08-28 · in What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

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…

comment by jonathansampson · 2019-08-28 · in What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

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.

comment by jonathansampson · 2019-08-27 · in What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5057

comment by oshanz · 2019-06-29 · in Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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…

comment by bubblethink · 2019-06-27 · in Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

…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

comment by walterbell · 2019-06-26 · in Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

> 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.

comment by joeyspn · 2019-06-22 · in Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch

Isn't it open source? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

comment by xur17 · 2019-05-30 · in Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author

There's Brave https://brave.com/ https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

comment by alexhawke · 2019-05-30 · in Waterfox Browser

…to ad blocking. See for instance https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09155 The browser is also open-source: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

comment by justsee · 2019-04-24 · in The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web

…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

Doesn't Brave have Widevine in it? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/31

comment by crysin · 2019-04-02 · in I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

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…

comment by bsclifton · 2019-02-11 · in Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests

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…

comment by rvnx · 2019-02-10 · in Brave Privacy Browser Is Whitelisting Trackers of Facebook and Twitter

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…

comment by _corym · 2018-12-21 · in Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

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

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

…and you can see it syncs from Chromium [1] https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver [2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

comment by notatoad · 2018-12-06 · in Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration

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

comment by mathiasrw · 2018-11-28 · in How to host your own distributed website in just a few seconds

…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-...

comment by WA9ACE · 2018-11-20 · in Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome

…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

…in private tabs and working IPFS integration on -dev channel since beginning of this year https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/819

comment by akerro · 2018-10-05 · in Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing