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So even though Brave is made on a Google product, Google doesn’t get the data? Is that what you’re saying? Because Google is such an honest company, sure they have no interest in the data of other browser instances made with their platform. Right?

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I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yes. That is in fact what I’m saying. Brave has built in blockers for ads, trackers, and cookies. It’s default search engine is DDG instead of Google. Considering Firefox defaults to Google for searches, you’re likely giving more data to Google through Firefox than you would using Brave.

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- LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You clearly have no knowledge on how browser instances work. Just because Brave has built-in stuff like ad blockers doesn’t mean the Chromium platform isn’t Google anymore and Google has no more access to the data. No matter the extra features it has. Using Chromium means sharing data with Google.
  
  Why would using Firefox share more data with Google than a Chromium browser, when Firefox is the only alternative to Chromium, made by a different company and not at all affiliated with Google?
  
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  - beveradb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’m not supporting brave here, but do you have any evidence that the open source Chromium browser sends data to Google in any situation? The way I see it, Chromium is like android AOSP without Google apps, less functional but generally de-googled.
    
    I can’t say I’ve reviewed every line of code in that huge project, but I’d be shocked if the rest of the open source community working on Chromium was willing to have tracking code in it or anything else which phones home to Google, even if the majority of the developers working on the open source project are Google engineers.
    
    Ultimately, both Brave and Firefox are open source, so you can look through the code and verify for yourself whether either browser are doing something unethical
    
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  - baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    Using Chromium means sharing data with Google.
    
    ??? You retarded or something?
    
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- tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It does have that, but don’t for a minute think they actually control chromium. If Google wanted to they could make life very difficult for brave.
  
  Currently brave still has support for manifest v2 but that will eventually be removed and the more brave diverges from the upstream the more work is required to keep it going.
  
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- FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This is gonna be awesome
  
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