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Already shared, but that (what you linked to) was a proposal and no deliverable was ever publicly released. A simple prototype was made and tested by a limited number of employees …

Something I would like to mention, as a dev on Brave, is that patches are considered a last resort. If there are patches, we try to keep them lightweight - like patch to have Chrom…

Some more context here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8342 You can leave a comment if it's something you'd like to see as an option

I'm #6 on that "wontfix" board and it's OK w/ me :) Most of those are from when I migrated our issues from one repo to another. We (Brave Software) do all of our company work on Gi…

If a user has Brave Rewards and ads enabled and gets an ad grant at the end of the month, SafetyNet is one measure used to help filter out fraudsters. The absence of it shouldn't c…

Likely due to SafetyNet API not being supported on that platform. I think this is captured with https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15344

This is a bit of a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29191244 - but article confirms (via Microsoft's release notes) that they consider it a bug that applications which …

It's something you need to manually configure. We would like to have an option for Windows folks that want to enable - but it would always be off by default (opt-in). It's understo…

There is an alternative option 2 available- you can subscribe to Brave Premium for a cost (shows as $7 USD/month). Just wanted to share as I hadn't seen it mentioned here For the n…

Have you given it a try? The crypto-currency parts are optional (you have to actually enable them). Brave has got a solid adblocker and privacy features out of the box

Thanks for the report! :) Fix coming

(Brave employee here) We actually have a fair chunk of deviations that we maintain (link already shared by Brendan, but here it is again) https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wik…

The affiliate autocomplete problem was acknowledged as a mistake and removed. More info at https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/

I think what you're describing are the "Tip" buttons which can be added on a few supported sites (which can be disabled). They aren't selling anything- it's a feature which people …

The service itself is open source and can be hosted by a community. It has a different authentication scheme (ex: not Google accounts) and enforces client side encryption by defaul…

It would take require changes to Chromium (with regards to authentication), but Brave's sync server is open source and protocol-wise mostly compatible (client side encryption is en…

CAPTCHA fix released just a few mins ago! :)

CAPTCHA fix released just a few mins ago! :)

Chromium might be Google dominated, but it's definitely an open source project. The reviewers I have worked with have been fair and have granted me more access as I've gotten more …

This would be extremely cool - and we (at Brave) did put in work to get a solution working (huge kudos to Jocelyn Liu who did the work). Repo up at https://github.com/brave/go-tran…

Fix coming tomorrow for this :) If you don't want to wait, you can check out the pre-release version here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.16.71 Nightly alre…

What exactly is closed source? Signing, configs, etc are of course private... but all of the code should be online - https://github.com/brave - https://github.com/brave-intl

That's part of "Web3" (aka Dapps) and you can turn it off. Under brave://settings/extensions for `Ethereum provider for using Dapps` pick `None`