Latest Brave for Android has a hard dependency on Google Play Services/microG

Confirmed this was true on latest GrapheneOS build for Pixel 6a, via guest account’s “install available apps.” Tried to start it, was just blank white; forced stopped and cleared cache plus storage, no change. I really liked Brave until this point, so it’s disappointing to see this (for reference, I’m running the latest Github build of Brave via Obtainium, no Sandboxed Play Services). Brave’s ad-blocking and anti-fingerprinting capabilities are incomparably better than Vandium at present, so I suppose I’ll use Mull with uBlock until Vandium matures!

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