I wish Brave would make a bold step toward a usable interface, like Pale Moon.
I wish Brave would make a bold step to re-writing itself to not be Chrome.
I don't believe Chrome knows all the ways google has put tracking, de-anonymization, etc, into their codebase. I don't think even Google knows where all of that is. I CERTAINLY don't think Brave has been able to remove it all.
Pale Moon has their own issues, goals and internal politics. They also use the older Goanna engine that is still single process.
I understand the point of view of wanting to strengthen FOSS projects and help development. But in some cases its easier and faster to start with a clean slate.
Brave is not built a on Chrome, its built on the open source Chromium. If you're concerned its very easy to run Wireshark to see what's trying to phone home.
Goanna uses multithreading heavily, just in a different way (internally to its components). Because PM is based on XUL, it also has a much richer extension system. And, in the most basic sense, a more powerful and customizable UI.
Chrome/Chromium is a meaningless distinction. Trying to fully audit the entire profile of traffic coming out of a browser in any complex situation, is also simply a massive task - and neither you nor I could single-handedly satisfy it. Worse, it's a moving target. It's not trustable. It just isn't.
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