I previously made a few tweets to retract my previous positive endorsements of the Brave mobile app as a decently secure browser (due to the strong Chromium base) with ad-blocking support. I'd like to make a stronger retraction: I don't think the people behind it can be trusted.
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Not sure to what extend you looked it, among the things that surprised me were the HTTP promo header injection in native engine so partners can understand browsing via Brave & the very bad quality in the AdBlock list parsers (c++ full of oob issues running in the priv. process).
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I've never used the desktop variant or looked at the code and only know about the Android app, so I was only vaguely aware of the total trash fire of the previous desktop app before they moved to a similar approach as Android. I found their approach and code very messy but felt..
.. that they at least had their heart in the right place and were pursuing similar goals. I thought I could make suggestions, report issues and reason with them. I didn't realize that the entire project is an attempt to bail out the advertising industry as the core goal.
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I had ignored that part of the project as a misguided experiment since they hadn't even bothered to port it to Android. It didn't seem like it was a core part of the project since my experience with the app didn't have it and I only read about it + didn't understand their goals.
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