Exactly, and chromium is only nominally open source. The reality is that Google has the final say on how the project is developed, and maintaining a viable independent fork would require a herculean effort.
I think Brave is at least mostly open source. Their builds are public and come from their github repo. I think they might throw in some proprietary bits during packaging (maybe related to drm or crypto or ads?) but I’m not 100% certain.
I’ve been tying to convince myself to use Brave for like 6 months but their crypto and ad history makes me wary.
Brave isn’t open source either as I recall.
And it’s based on chromium.
Exactly, and chromium is only nominally open source. The reality is that Google has the final say on how the project is developed, and maintaining a viable independent fork would require a herculean effort.
I think Brave is at least mostly open source. Their builds are public and come from their github repo. I think they might throw in some proprietary bits during packaging (maybe related to drm or crypto or ads?) but I’m not 100% certain.
I’ve been tying to convince myself to use Brave for like 6 months but their crypto and ad history makes me wary.
My understanding is that the open source part is basically just the underlying Chromium engine, but all the UI code that drives it is proprietary.
Ah, gross