I moved to brave a while ago. Works great both in desktop and mobile, and you still get chromium under the hood.
The metrics it shows about the amount of ads and trackers blocked is astonishing...
The metrics it shows about the amount of ads and trackers blocked is astonishing...
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.
To render and provide interactions as you deem fit...
Further, just because something is open-source doesn't automatically free it of corporate encumbrance - something Google knows quite well [0][1].
[0] https://boingboing.net/2019/05/29/hoarding-software-freedom.... [1]https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/i-hate-being-right-2.html
Browser monoculture has advantages and disadvantages and would be the topic of a separate discussion.
I never claimed that Chromium is free of "corporate encumbrance" nor do I think that's a problem. I don't think there's any realistic risk that if Google stops developing on Chromium we would be losing that browser, there's too many people outside of Google with invested interest in keeping Chromium going so a popular separately maintained fork seems likely. And even in the extremely unlikely case that Chromium disappears overnight and nobody wants to touch that code base ever again, there are other browsers out there.