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Just be aware that you're placing a lot of trust in them.

It is adding a dependency on the Brave developers not to mess up and create security holes, in addition to whatever trust you place in the Chrome project itself. (A browser plugin requires somewhat less trust since it's sandboxed, but the permissions are still pretty scary.)

But I guess it's like buying an Android phone from anyone besides Google? Or installing packages from Debian and hoping they fix more security issues than they add, compared to the original developer. It's usually true, but not always.



That’s a pretty small risk to take since it’s OSS and I can audit it, if so feel like it.

I think the risk they add from a security perspective offsets the risk Chrome brings from a privacy perspective.


I know. I've been burnt before by Mozilla and Google. Brave will also mess up eventually. I'm just praying that there will be another good browser to hop to when that occurs!


Have you checked out Microsoft's Chromium Edge?


It doesn't work. As in, can't render some perfectly renderable sites correctly. It seems Microsoft is chronically bad at making browsers, even when using a good ready-made engine.


What site in particular are you having trouble with? I haven't found a single problem in the few months it's been released.




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