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Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

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323 points plusCubed | 2 comments | 21 Dec 18 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.589s | source
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aphextron ◴[21 Dec 18 19:26 UTC] No.18735814[source]▶
I'd been really loving Brave and using it as my daily driver for a few months now, until that I noticed that little "Brave Ads" icon at the end of the address bar. That's when I realized their entire business model is just in the usurpation of existing Google ad revenue, dressed up with "privacy concerns" for the good PR. This sent me on a journey to find a really solid, free, Chromium based browser that is totally de-Googled, which seems absolutely impossible. I've tacitly settled on Vivaldi, but it's just impossible to really know if they are trustworthy as a company in the long run. Ultimately I feel like I can only trust a browser who's entire build process is open source at this point.
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1. adjagu ◴[21 Dec 18 19:39 UTC] No.18735914[source]▶
Have you checked out Ungoogled Chromium? Link to their GitHub: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
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2. aphextron ◴[21 Dec 18 22:14 UTC] No.18737178[source]▶
I have, and it's great. But it just comes down to trust. At the end of the day you are still trusting some random internet person to distribute the binaries. I don't want to have to build from source just to be able to trust my browser.