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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Is Brave safe from these shenanigans? Asking for a friend.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Brave is built on Chromium. So, by default, no they are not safe from this. Without extra effort, Brave will have this feature. I don't know if its feasible but there's a chance the Brave devs can remove the code from their distribution, but that's the best case scenario and just puts them in the same position as Firefox: they get locked out because they refuse to implement the spec.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I have to imagine they will strip it because if they don't, it'll be dead to all of their users.

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    It may be dead to its users anyway depending on how forceful Google is with this. If Brave doesn't work on 98.8% of all websites with advertising or indeed on 49.5% of all websites (approximately Google's ad network's reach), it becomes as niche as lynx.

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