Yes Brave cannot make commits to Chromium, but it makes changes to their own repos (well, obviously) and can also accept/reject changes Google makes to Chromium.

In my opinion, Firefox is more of a slave to Google than Brave will ever be because they rely entirely on Google giving them money for the default search engine.

Is Brave's revenue model scammy? Maybe. But at least they aren't Google little bitch.

[–] dalingrin@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how you can follow web development and say Mozilla is a slave to Google. They go against nearly everything Google proposes. I get it that Mozilla makes money off of Google but in practice they are anything but slaves.

[–] GraveDancer@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml

I find nothing morally or ethically superior to Mozilla vs Google. Nothing. As for the browsers, I'll admit I have kept Firefox and ditched Chrome, as I suspect (cannot prove) the former might be a tad less invasive than the latter. I rarely use it now that I have Waterfox. That said I do use Comodo IceDragon, Epic Privacy Browser and Brave...I assume all based on Chromium/Chrome. I'd guess Brave is the most up-to-date browser for Windows 7. It works well when various sites flip the birdie to the other browsers, so I use it.

[–] El_Rocha@lm.put.tf 3 points 10 months ago

They can do whatever they want, they only do it because Google allows it.

By that logic, Brave is also completely against Google because they block their ads and go against them.