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[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean, there's simply just Firefox. Which is apparently not the basis for Brave. It does sound like Brave collects data so it still seems shady.

Edit: could have sworn brave was built on Firefox. It's not. It's chromium. Which in my opinion counts against it as I'd rather avoid a monopoly considering how much control Google has over chromium and the inherent biases Google has.

[–] tombuben@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave is based on Chromium, not Firefox.

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My bad. Not sure why I thought that. Still. Firefox is still a better alternative in my opinion.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You might have been thinking of Mullvad Browser, which is based on Firefox and came out somewhat recently. Other privacy-focused browsers based on Firefox include Librewolf and Tor browser.