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		freehorse on Dec 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlo... At the very least, I do not trust a browser that was putting affiliate links to unsuspecting users' urls [0]. Plus I tbh I am really sick of everything tending to be chromium-derivatives nowadays and I think it is good to have greater diversity, to exactly avoid situation susch as the one here. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10134

kbelder on Dec 26, 2024 [–]

If you research all the controversies around Brave, I think they pretty much amount to nothing. Just some people holding grudges.

But the complaint that it's a reskinned Chrome and will be forced to eventually adopt most of Chrome's user-hostile changes is a real concern.

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