Chromium is the rendering engine, it has no connections to google services. It is the same as using webkit as a base, webkit doesn't phone home to Apple.
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New Brave Browser Feature Bypasses 'Harmful' Google AMP Pages
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That practice was one of the things that kept me from using it. After they got exposed for doing that, I believe they stopped that practice as they got a lot of bad feedback.
The Brave browser basics: what it does, how it differs from rivals
The web browser from Brave Software relies on an unusual business model: it strips out ads from websites, replaces them with its own ads, then allows users to send money to sites they like.www.computerworld.com
I’m confused. Should I be using Brave browser/search? I thought they were in the news a while back for getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar for privacy violations and the CEO publicly apologized for it?
EVERY browser search software/site has gotten in trouble for privacy violations. Nobody can build and run a search company for free and everyone needs to make money to stay in business, and customers don’t seem to like a subscription service that you have to pay to use but which could -theoretically- do a better job searching for what you want and also do a better job of protecting privacy.
Look for the word "amp" in the URL. Yes, it's usually that obvious.
I use Firefox and the "Redirect AMP to HTML" plugin.
It feels to me like what Safari should be. Fast, nicely designed, and privacy focused. Has some cool features such as automatically rejecting optional cookies on sites which I really like.
Safari really needs to up its game.
Isn’t Brave’s protection fake? I recall reading something about Brave being spineless.
Ah yes, Reddit.
Ah yes, Reddit.
Stay awayExcellent I didn't know about that browser Brave app
You clearly have NO idea what Brave is.
Check here for disabled Google Services:
https://github.com/brave/brave-brow...emove)#services--features-we-disable-entirely
Sorry Brave, you lost me at "Basic Attention Tokens" ...gamifying the concept of "watch ads and earn" is just gross. And yeah, it's optional, but I'm not supporting yet another private company's business based on becoming the indispensable advertising middleman.
Not true. Chromium is a browser, in fact it is the open-source base upon which Chrome is built. The engine they both use is called Blink.
Chromium has components that connect to Google’s servers. That is why projects like ungoogled-chromium exist.
Is this really so different from site owners who use edge caching/serving services such as Akamai and Amazon CloudFront? I'm no fan of Google and its surveillance capitalism business model but it seems to me it is really difficult to avoid content delivery intermediaries because they are so widely used by publishers, ISPs, mobile phone networks, and hosting services in addition to search engines and browser developers. Let's face it, data collection is happening everywhere it is possible now. And similar to Google's practices, most of it is invisible to users.
