browser-laptop VS brave-browser

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15645 https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/13880

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At one point, he added the "Wikipedia of the alt right" to the list of Brave's search engines. Reason: unknown.

However, since moving to the new repository in 2017 the described file and functionality seems to be gone, I searched for this in the new repo and even for terms such as "whitelist" and "allowlist" and I cannot find anything.

This issue is tracked by Brave here and here. It looks like it's a low priority, but ScriptSafe might help; "prevent system fonts from being enumerated through elements."

>Google bought widevine last year.

Google bought widewine in 2010

>Google didn't invent that particular DRM, but now that it's widespread, they have bought it outright.

It invented most of it, in the last 10 years it owned widevine.

As for how open widevine is:

>I'm sorry but we're not supporting an open source solution like this

https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/widevine/gmail-thread.html

Or as Brian Bondy, of Brave, put it:

>This is a prime example for why free as in beer is not enough. Small share browsers are at the mercy of Google, and Google is stalling us for no communicated-to-us reason.

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/10449#issueco...

So yeah, you can fork chromium and make your own nifty browser. But do not expect being able to play any video from any paid streaming service any time soon or ever.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromiu...

You'll notice the actual patching itself is introduced with the caveat:

Brave browser, which blocks ads and trackers, grew to over 50 million monthly active users in 2023 while enabling privacy-first models to counter Google's search and Chrome browser ecosystem.

Still waiting on the Brave stable release with the patched version of chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/35013

Manually download the standalone version from: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.61.101 and update it that way.

Upgraded Chromium to 120.0.6099.71. (#34740) (Changelog for 120.0.6099.71)

Brave Github repository

For those looking for a fix: Use the latest Nightly Build for Brave.

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