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> view Brave’s chromium base a lesser evil than FireFox’s funding dependency.

This is very short-sighted. All chromium forks are an extension of Google Chrome.

Chromium is the base. Google Chrome is one browser built on top of it, Brave is another.

If Google Chrome wants a feature designed one way, and Brave wants it designed another way, which one is going into Chromium?

Pretending Chromium isn't just an open source fork of Chrome is silly, it's just a method of letting a bad actor have it's cake and eat it too: Forcing a proprietary blob down everyone's throat while claiming it's open source because they toss some of it's code over the wall.

Which proprietary blob? What are you talking about? Brave is open source, the only proprietary blob I'm aware of is if you request DRM support, in which case it downloads Widevine but it doesn't ship that by default just like Firefox, for the same reasons.

I was referring to Google Chrome in my comment.

Chromium is open source. They can fork the entire codebase, which I imagine they have done. They likely just cherry-pick changes they want from the upstream.

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