They're both corporations that exist to make money for investors. They're both companies that go to great lengths to respect and preserve user privacy. I see no particular structural reason to trust Brave more than Google. What structurally prevents the Brave corporation from changing once those people leave, leadership changes, acquisitions happen or Brave is acquired? We also live in a world of grey areas, so judgement calls need to be made. Protecting user privacy is a different goal. Commercial entities exist to make money for investors. Yet, Google has grown a bit of a PR problem with respect to privacy issues. I personally had my own work vetted multiple times for security related stuff, and I was quite impressed. There were and still are a great many very skilled people focusing on security and privacy within Google, with good intentions. I felt similarly about Google while I worked there. having seen some of the internal discussions, I trust Brave a lot when it comes to privacy. > A commercial entity has a sustainable path to providing those resources. In short, I don't think "commercial" is bad and having seen some of the internal discussions, I trust Brave a lot when it comes to privacy. One discussion I vaguely remember was how browser caching can be used to fingerprint users in a very subtle way, and Brave engineers thought very long and hard about how to close this particular loophole of the web. Again serious engineering resources are devoted to changing Google's Chromium implementation to make it better for privacy. It is amazing how much thought and effort the people at Brave put into privacy, even when it is not visible to the outside world. But I'm also privy to some of the internal discussions. Where it isn't, there are good reasons why such as for example security. Brave also has a unique way of serving ads in a privacy-friendly way. While nobody likes ads, I think they're opt-in in Brave and at the end of the day they're a potential source of funding for the necessary development efforts.
Being competitive in the space requires a very large amount of engineering resources.Ī commercial entity has a sustainable path to providing those resources.
The web evolves constantly and security fixes are extremely important. Maintaining a browser is a huge amount of work.
Disclaimer: I do consulting work for Brave.
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