wire vs brave-browser

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Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows. (by brave)

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wire		brave-browser
	Project
7	Mentions	1,367
2,358	Stars	16,672
0.3%	Growth	1.1%
4.8	Activity	9.9
4 months ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

wire

Posts with mentions or reviews of wire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-06.

Give the contacts a local name!
1 project | /r/wireapp | 10 Jul 2023
Signal LAN Version or Alternative?
1 project | /r/signal | 31 Mar 2023
Private messenging and email
4 projects | /r/privacy | 6 Mar 2023
Wire is now on F-Droid
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2022
WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
1 project | /r/worldnews | 25 Jan 2021

I thought wire was fully open source, at least the free version? https://github.com/wireapp/wire - am I missing something?
What else?
6 projects | /r/Monero | 10 Jan 2021

The table is wrong, wire collects heaps of metadata: https://github.com/wireapp/wire/issues/214

brave-browser

Posts with mentions or reviews of brave-browser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

FLaNK AI Weekly 18 March 2024
39 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromiu...
You'll notice the actual patching itself is introduced with the caveat:
How Web3 Decentralization Can Dismantle Big Tech Monopolies in 2024
3 projects | dev.to | 14 Feb 2024

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.
Google fixes 8th Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2023

Still waiting on the Brave stable release with the patched version of chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/35013
BRAVE browser and Marvel Insider don't play nice ??
1 project | /r/marvelinsider | 8 Dec 2023
Brave not opening links in apps / Windows 11
1 project | /r/brave_browser | 7 Dec 2023

Manually download the standalone version from: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.61.101 and update it that way.
Release Channel 1.61.101
1 project | /r/brave_browser | 7 Dec 2023

Upgraded Chromium to 120.0.6099.71. (#34740) (Changelog for 120.0.6099.71)
Release Channel 1.61.100
1 project | /r/brave_browser | 6 Dec 2023

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Youtube not working anymore
2 projects | /r/brave_browser | 6 Dec 2023

For those looking for a fix: Use the latest Nightly Build for Brave.
Can anyone verify this information about privacy?
2 projects | /r/onlinesecurity2023 | 4 Dec 2023

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing wire and brave-browser you can also consider the following projects:

wickr-crypto-c - An implementation of the Wickr Secure Messaging Protocol in C

Vanadium - Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS repositories and doesn't include patches not relevant to the build targets used on GrapheneOS.

cinny - Yet another matrix client

bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

foxy-droid - Yet another F-Droid client

thorium - Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.

session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger

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TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.

iridium-browser - Iridium Browser source code

Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.