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> Is Brave 100% open source?

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

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

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

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...

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.

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