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It's not just about spyware. It's about the actions of the company and the fact it's Chromium based.
idk who the guy who made brave is and what he does but the browser works and definately isnt spyware coz you can just go look at the code yourself
Fwiw the guy who made Brave is the same guy who who wrote JavaScript. He created Firefox too iirc, but was booted by Mozilla for being loudly and publicly homophobic.
I haven't heard anything about him being a pedophile, however.
(It's probably worth mentioning: he wrote JavaScript over the course of 10 days in 1995, iirc. Over literally the next 28 years, JS has been developed and maintained by everyone but Eich - so if you're weirded out by the fact that Eich wrote JS, he really did very little of it. If all we had was his version of it, it would be nowhere near as prevalent as it is today. JavaScript is still garbage, but at least it's our garbage.)
When was the last time you audited the Brave code?
If that was a prerequisite to use or trust open source software than most FOSS stuff would be worthless. It is not however. Many people like to use Linux but probably have not read the whole source code. Doesn't matter, there's plenty people that do and being open by nature is just more transparent. If they do something shady someone will most likely see it. With closed source software that is not the case.
i bet half these people saying not to use brave use windows smh
I don't disagree with you generally, but any open source software can contain malware if no one is actually looking at the source code.