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  • Is Brave still an issue/threat to privacy?

This topic has already been discussed in the past, but these links (link 1 & link 2) show us a dark side of Brave.
To me it was true when it happened (2 to 3y ago), but i thought that today Brave was safe. How to see this browser?

I don't trust Wikipedia as far as I can kick their servers but I think the concerns in the second link were and still are valid. :)

Many of these behaviors seem to still be in place as of 2 months ago when I stopped using Brave.

There is no point in using Brave if you are willing to spend some time learning how to customize your browser like Vanadium and Bromite on Android (or Ungoogled Chromium on PC) with chrome:flags settings page to get safer and more private browsing experience compared to Brave. I prefer Bromite because it is built for both security and privacy with more and better anti-fingerprinting settings compared to Vanadium. Vanadium is built more around security than privacy. The main issue with Bromite is that it is often outdated and lags behind Vanadium updates by a month or so... I wish GOS would adopt all of Bromite's privacy features and allow them to be optional in case Vanadium's original settings are preferred by user.

You guys are an invaluable source of great info. This however crushes my established beliefs. Can you then recommend a reasonably privacy and security oriented browser which would work on GOS and takes extensions? I can't live without uMatrix added to a browser and can't seem to find a way to do it in Vanadium.

    nosferatu and takes extensions

    THIS, is the real crux. I absolutely need certain extensions/addons, and the ability to write my own userscripts in Tampermonkey. I've only seen Firefox that can do this on mobile, which means I have multiple browsers on GOS, depending on the sites I visit.

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    Personally, I don't get the hate. It's a resourced Chromium fork with timely security updates, some great out-of-the-box defaults and pretty capable ad-blocker built-in. More importantly, it doesn't require me to trust me some random pre-built binaries as is the case with ungoogled-chromium (unless you're compiling them yourself). People behind the project have been pretty forthcoming to address any criticisms or concerns and their crypto industrial complex is entirely opt-in too. I use it alongside Safari. I have a few criticisms but none are related to their alleged sketchiness. I'm talking desktop here. On GOS just use Vanadium. As always, do your own research.