I just realized it was the CEO of Brave that posted this and not just some guy. I think that makes my concerns above irrelevant as they already have all the infrastructure in place to deliver this.
Yay for not having to use some weird group policy overrides anymore!
Private payments are pretty cut and dry nowadays, so hopefully authentication is fine. In fact, Brave sync being shared secret based instead of email based was one of the reasons I picked them up initially (although I now use platform default browsers via syncthing based sync).
As for piracy, I think that is partially why they made it free on Linux, and paid for others who are more likely to pay. I would hope the honour system works and people who can, do support the tools they use though. I would pay for this for people in my family who use Brave, for what itās worth, especially as a one time payment.
I think this is a cool option for those who want it, but for me personally I kind of already have mixed feelings about Brave as a company it and I feel like they are only couple more shady moves away from pushing to me towards a hardened chrome with uBO Lite solution instead I feel paying them directly would only enable them
Absolutely! I would also like to support Brave in some way because I only use their browser. Although some of their services interest me like their AI (I havenāt researched enough yet about privacy issues) and their search engine (the problem is that when using VPN, I always get captchas).
I would also pay to install it for loved ones. I hope it comes out for iOS and Android because they didnāt announce anything about these platforms.
However, I think they leave it free on Linux so that distributions will gradually replace Firefox with Brave as the pre-installed browser. It seems like a good strategy to me.
Zorin OS has already started doing that. If Brave Origin is really as good as it sounds, I canāt wait for others to adopt it too.
Did not know about this, sounds interesting. But I wonder if the more mainstream distros will ever pick it, since firefox has a better reputation in those circles.
Chromium based will be better for security if there were a clean stable modern browser so that could really make a case for the distro makers to consider it a default going forward.
Brilliant! I hope this happens soon enough or in Q1 at-least. Canāt wait.
Question I have about this is how would purchase be transferred across devices. would we need some sort of ābrave accountā?
I would imagine it could just be as simple as what Mullvad or IVPN has for their username. A string of numbers or letters?
I would very much like to run Mullvad browser, I can not get to work in Secure Blue. I am still learning though.
ujust with-standard-malloc mullvad-browser
This is because mullvad browser is not built with alternative malloc support and secureblue uses hardened_malloc for everything by default
You need to disable hardened malloc for that program and namespace restrictions for unconfined_t. Check out the FAQ on how to do it.
Thank you!
I am on it.
I donāt care for the built in browser. No disrespet towards the developer or the OS because they have madw it available for free.. 
As someone who uses Firefox as their default browser, I agree with everything you just said.
I have recently come to the conclusion that until there are private non-Chromium based browsers that the average Jane can switch to easily and seamlessly, private Chromium browsers like Brave will remain necessary. I personally think Brave is not enough. We need at least two private chromium based browsers.
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This is a great question.
The closest thing Iāve been able to find that matches your description is pale moon: https://www.palemoon.org/
Great performance while also maintaining user privacy. If you need it, they also have security extensions that are popular here!
EDIT:
One positive I forgot to mention thatās in your scope of the browser you need is that Palemoon IS NOT based on Chromium.
One negative is that some sites, including privacyguides.net doesnāt run too well on itā¦
From your list of objectives, I think Palemoon is definitely worth trying!
EDIT 2:
Did the thread starter get banned? His profile now says heās no longer active??
Pale Moon does not fit the description at all and has terrible security compared to Brave.
I appreciate your reply!
I know Palemoon isnāt perfect, however, when I read the thread starterās list of requirements Palemoon was the best browser that does what he wants.
It may not be the most secure browser but it receives updates often. It just received a security update a week ago.