I've been using Brave the last several years as well. Although, I'm recalling some news about Chromium itself getting pozzed by Google meaning that Brave would also be affected? I can't recall the details.
Brave is a google chromium soft fork, yeah. Which means they recieve google updates from upstream, and have to remove as much as they can, in the rapid release cycle that google uses to copy Microsoft with Internet Explorer's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish tactic to have sites always use the latest experimental standards and therefor google chrom/ium (which gets updates first), and then chromium soft forks..and then firefoxium after that..
At least so long as Brendan Eich is still in charge it should be, but a lot of these trustworthy giants of their time are getting old and either pushed out of the way or forced to retire because they're just out of juice.
Linus Torvalds for example got shoved out of the way a few years ago by trans-Linux activists, including his own daughter. Brendan Eich who I just mentioned was ousted from Mozilla-Firefox, after being one of the central pillars in helping to create it (as well as Netscape and Javascript) all because he donated some of his own money to that anti-gay marriage bill in California a few years back. He did manage to come back swinging though.
I've just been using Brave. It's basically Chrome with integrated ad blocking, it's very easy to recommend to normies.
I've been using Brave the last several years as well. Although, I'm recalling some news about Chromium itself getting pozzed by Google meaning that Brave would also be affected? I can't recall the details.
Brave is a google chromium soft fork, yeah. Which means they recieve google updates from upstream, and have to remove as much as they can, in the rapid release cycle that google uses to copy Microsoft with Internet Explorer's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish tactic to have sites always use the latest experimental standards and therefor google chrom/ium (which gets updates first), and then chromium soft forks..and then firefoxium after that..
At least so long as Brendan Eich is still in charge it should be, but a lot of these trustworthy giants of their time are getting old and either pushed out of the way or forced to retire because they're just out of juice.
Linus Torvalds for example got shoved out of the way a few years ago by trans-Linux activists, including his own daughter. Brendan Eich who I just mentioned was ousted from Mozilla-Firefox, after being one of the central pillars in helping to create it (as well as Netscape and Javascript) all because he donated some of his own money to that anti-gay marriage bill in California a few years back. He did manage to come back swinging though.
I'd say Brave browser is.. ok-ish. No major scandal. It's the best google chromium browser, but it's still a google chromium browser.
Translate with your choice: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/brave-datensendeverhalten-desktop-version-browser-check-teil1/
And they were removing some security/anti-tracking features?
That, I'm not sure about. You might find something to jog your memory here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)