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Brave’s built-in adblocker accepts arbitrary content, making it a source of significant attack surface. The method Vanadium (and Trivalent) uses to implement adblocking by preprocessing filter rules at build time mitigates this risk significantly:
Assuming it is this point, it is intersting indeed. Now that we are on the topic of Browsers, a while ago i had a spin in my head that asked itself;
Purely from a security perspective, which browser would be 'more secure'; 'barebones chromium' or brave? The idea was that brave has a decent amount of code(C?) stacked on top of chromium, potentionally increasing attack surface.
I purely ask myself (perhaps stupid) questions like this, as i guess my brain is wired like that to learn. Keep in mind i'm not claiming anything here, just giving an example of an internal thought process. I usually try to find the answer out myself.
As i don't always know where to ask these questions, i've admittely asked this specific question to an AI (...), and it confirmed that in theory brave would have an increased attack surface compared to chromium. Though i might have suggested its answer in my questioning, so i still don't know if that thought would be true.
Perhaps someone more familiar in this space could either acknowledge or dismiss this while we're at it.