I want to make that distinction. For instance, if I am using Chrome, I do suffer directly - because my privacy will be at the mercy of Google. Just making sure that this is not the case with Brave.
As for for analytics trackers, I have to verify that it shows up as Chromium since I would have thought they would use their own User-Agent. But even if we assume this is the case - it should be fairly easy for the user to change the User-Agent and ensure Brave does not show up as Chromium.
As for market share - I would not look at using Brave that is a Chromium derivitive as giving Google the market share. As long as User-Agent is different, and there are no inbuilt connections to any Google servers, its like pirated software/movies. You are taking advantage of the evil company without providing them any benefits.
I want to explore the idea that using chrome derivatives such as Brave is as bad as using Chrome itself.
Is this just an ideological stand? Can you provide concrete ways in which a user of Brave will suffer ?
Out of Boredom, I changed my waterfox user agent to say “TrumpOS” and “TrumpBrowser.v1.7.7.6”
I want to make that distinction. For instance, if I am using Chrome, I do suffer directly - because my privacy will be at the mercy of Google. Just making sure that this is not the case with Brave.
As for for analytics trackers, I have to verify that it shows up as Chromium since I would have thought they would use their own User-Agent. But even if we assume this is the case - it should be fairly easy for the user to change the User-Agent and ensure Brave does not show up as Chromium.
As for market share - I would not look at using Brave that is a Chromium derivitive as giving Google the market share. As long as User-Agent is different, and there are no inbuilt connections to any Google servers, its like pirated software/movies. You are taking advantage of the evil company without providing them any benefits.
Thanks for the clarifications. Its helpful.
BTW, how did you get your name to blink like that??