On: Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It...

[fintechie]

> Is Brave 100% open source?

They have the project on github so I guess the answer is yes...

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

The business model is also quite smart, since the users get paid BAT tokens for viewing ads.

[tapoxi → fintechie]

Their business model is quite unethical, removing the page's monetization and replacing it with their own.

[wickedlogic → tapoxi]

Is it though? As long the person running the browser understands the tradeoffs? I mean, the browser is supposed to be your user-agent after all.

To render and provide interactions as you deem fit...

[mc32 → tapoxi]

Arguably but arguably so is the business model of Chrome from a user perspective. So from that POV it’s not worse than Chrome but does benefit the user, whereas Chrome benefits Google, ad industry and sellers.