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..
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..
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)