The important thing to look for is, is it open source, meaning is the source code (stuff programmers write) publicly available. It doesn't guarantee that there's no security issues, but transparency cleanses self interest.
Brave is open source, like Signal Private Messenger, like Linux, like Bitcoin, like Tor. You can search online for the source code, the most popular site for this is github, but it was recently bought by Microsoft.
can somebody reassure me that brave is good and not a classic alphabet data harvesting operation
The important thing to look for is, is it open source, meaning is the source code (stuff programmers write) publicly available. It doesn't guarantee that there's no security issues, but transparency cleanses self interest.
Brave is open source, like Signal Private Messenger, like Linux, like Bitcoin, like Tor. You can search online for the source code, the most popular site for this is github, but it was recently bought by Microsoft.