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Big fan of the compact UI, especially since Brave's is so fat even when you enable their secret compact mode. The sizes on older Safari were the gold. Couple design decisions I don't agree with, but they are me being picky -- like keeping MV2. It will just be growing legacy extension attack surface later as extensions are less developed. I would like to see more security and privacy features. A few are in their GitHub issues already. It's mostly just Ungoogled Chromium with a UI uplift, better search, network services and a pre-installed uBlock at this early stage.

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yep it's crazy how bad the browser ecosystem is that a clean "just works" browser, after adding the needed privacy and security additions, already sounds much better at an early stage than existing options... even though chromium is cancer and a ladybird or a servo would be nicer, something like helium is the simplest option we could use while we wait for other engines to be production ready
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↩ replying to rafael_xmr
You can use feature flags to get greater privacy enhancements, but they're not default and they don't list anywhere except a mention on their pages. I can't find any docs that instruct people on that. I just set up a slightly hardened config of Helium now. I'd like Brave a lot more if they just kept all their other shit away from their browser product. They do great things with state isolation, anti-fingeprinting and an extremely well designed content filtering. But they pulled a Mozilla of making a bunch of random services you likely aren't using. Cryptocurrencies don't belong in browsers. Their UI is also too much.
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You have these, enabled them all so they can be seen in the same pic. Obviously, enabling these kind of makes you fingerprinted by standing out. image What should note is: - No automatic updates on platforms - No toggle to disable JS JIT at all levels per-site like Trivalent / Vanadium (huge security boost with minimum tradeoff) - Minimal dev team (two people) - Too early to trust