I suggest watching this video to see some of the main sources of controversy in this browser. The final straw was when he leaked user information while browsing the Darknet (Tor’s incognito tab, present on Brave) - YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, …

Brave is one of browsers that i use occasionally, but after reading this: The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training well i’m a bit worried.

With all the controversies and fears people have regarding Brave, it is still the best browser to recommend to the majority for many reasons, and is still the best Chromuim-based browser for general use. Brave is the happy medium we have in the browser arena. It is a highly private browser, with man…

[image] Latest Brave for Android has a hard dependency on Google Play Services/microG shieldGeneral I briefly posted then deleted this a few days back but it is still reproducible. See also Brave Google Play Services dependence · Issue #22253 · brave/brave-b…

I think we should consider removing Brave for Android and consider recommending Mulch or Cromite instead. Also, is there anything keeping Vanadium from being added to recommendations? update!: Recommend Vanadium for GrapheneOS users …

I feel like we should wait to see how Brave responds before jumping the gun. If Brave refuses to fix this, then I’d agree with its removal.

This was discussed here: [image] Vanadium (GrapheneOS Web Browser) Tool Suggestions Why is Brave recommended and Vanadium isn’t? I’m a GrapheneOS user, and I don’t see why I should install Brave and use it over Vanadium.

Response from VP of Engineering at Brave: Thanks for the report folks - this is a known issue We depend on Google Play Services for Safe Browsing, Brave Rewards, and more. To recap: this dependence on Google Play Services is expected and we don’t have plans to address.

That was in response to the general issue of removing Google Play Dependencies from Brave before this issue happened. Some features not working vs. the entire app being broken is completely different, so I hope they’ll be willing to fix it.

[image] anon48875053: Also, is there anything keeping Vanadium from being added to recommendations? If there is, I’d say it’s because it is only available on GrapheneOS currently. They do plan to make it available for other Android OSes but that hasn’t happened yet and it won’t be as hardened…

One thing I found weird with Brave was that its default setting was to “update in the background” even if the Brave App was closed on my Windows 10 PC??? :scream: :scream:

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