brave-browser VS Vanadium

Brave - Privacy-focused browser with ad-blocking.

Separate reply that ritual impurity or blind black-box rejection of open source Chromium/Blink seems also to suffer from emotionalism over reason. See

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

This is a choice we made. As I wrote in my last reply, I think we would have died trying to get Gecko/Graphene with a Web front end up to competitive scratch vs. Chrome (nm Firefox).

A Firefox fork would have gone over badly with some potentially large number of Mozilla/Firefox fans, and we'd still lack key elements not part of the Mozilla open source (at the time, e.g., Adobe's CDM for HTML5 DRM). On the upside we'd have more UX customizability.

But our choice of Chromium/Blink (via Electron, so we had Web front end upside without Firefox extensions) was not a slam dunk choice. It involved trade-offs, as all engineering does. The downside is we have to audit and network-test for leaks and blunders, which often come from Chromium upstream:

https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1898529583546421322

6. Brave

[2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10808

At the very least, I do not trust a browser that was putting affiliate links to unsuspecting users' urls [0]. Plus I tbh I am really sick of everything tending to be chromium-derivatives nowadays and I think it is good to have greater diversity, to exactly avoid situation susch as the one here.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10134

Not so. The Chromium bits have the native tracking goo we neutralize, see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-....

One example was an issue in the Brave Browser project to add a policy for disabling a feature. The documentation provided clear instructions, so I decided to give it a try. After cloning the repositories, one for the whole project and the other containing the actual browser code which is a fork of chromium (it was HUGE). I installed the necessary tools (like depot_tools) and packages needed by Chromium. Despite realizing early on that the project was massive, I decided to give it a shot.

I install: Discord, Brave, [Telegram(https://desktop.telegram.org/) and VSCode, which then I sync with my github profile to pull down my settings.

Ignorance is bliss, I'm here to bring enlightenment:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

https://brave.com/privacy-updates

While Graphene comes with Vanadium, their own Chromium-based browser, pre-installed I chose to go with Mull as my default browser. There wasn't anything wrong with Vanadium, it's just that I've been using Firefox (and the wonderful uBlock Origin plugin) on my Linux machine for a little while now and have really grown to prefer it to Chromium-based browsers. In my research I had seen a lot of mentions of Mull and Fennec, both based on Firefox but with further hardening and privacy modifications. This detailed browser comparison chart (produced by the developer of Mull) is what ultimately led to me choosing Mull. It's definitely worth a look at the chart even if you aren't in the market for a new browser!

Check out Vanadium, which is part of the GrapheneOS project: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium