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.
Yeah problem is the only other option seems to be Brave and that’s also run by shitheads
I don’t think there are many browsers that aren’t run by jerks.
Librewolf is a firefox fork with the bs removed.
Librewolf user here, no real issues once you get the privacy and security settings to your liking.
I switched from librewolf to Zen a while back, but now Librewolf has vertical tab support so it’s won my heart back <3
Brave isn’t open source either as I recall.
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