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by bsclifton 8mo ago
Already shared, but that (what you linked to) was a proposal and no deliverable was ever publicly released. A simple prototype was made and tested by a limited number of employees - instead of showing an ad, it would show a picture of a mus
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by bsclifton 3y ago
Something I would like to mention, as a dev on Brave, is that patches are considered a last resort. If there are patches, we try to keep them lightweight - like patch to have Chromium create the Brave version of the object (something we can
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by bsclifton 3y ago
Some more context here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8342 You can leave a comment if it's something you'd like to see as an option
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by bsclifton 3y ago
I'm #6 on that "wontfix" board and it's OK w/ me :) Most of those are from when I migrated our issues from one repo to another. We (Brave Software) do all of our company work on GitHub and have over 10k issues in o
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by bsclifton 5y ago
If a user has Brave Rewards and ads enabled and gets an ad grant at the end of the month, SafetyNet is one measure used to help filter out fraudsters. The absence of it shouldn't cause a crash though
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by bsclifton 5y ago
Likely due to SafetyNet API not being supported on that platform. I think this is captured with https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15344
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by bsclifton 5y ago
This is a bit of a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29191244 - but article confirms (via Microsoft's release notes) that they consider it a bug that applications which are NOT Edge were able to set this. &g
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If the latest Windows 11 wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what(theregister.com)
5 points by bsclifton 5y ago|1 comments
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by bsclifton 5y ago
It's something you need to manually configure. We would like to have an option for Windows folks that want to enable - but it would always be off by default (opt-in). It's understood that enabling this is going against the OS defi
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by bsclifton 5y ago
There is an alternative option 2 available- you can subscribe to Brave Premium for a cost (shows as $7 USD/month). Just wanted to share as I hadn't seen it mentioned here For the no-cost option, enabling Brave Rewards helps Brave
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by bsclifton 5y ago
Have you given it a try? The crypto-currency parts are optional (you have to actually enable them). Brave has got a solid adblocker and privacy features out of the box
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by bsclifton 5y ago
Thanks for the report! :) Fix coming
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Playlist for iOS(brave.com)
133 points by bsclifton 5y ago|84 comments
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by bsclifton 5y ago
(Brave employee here) We actually have a fair chunk of deviations that we maintain (link already shared by Brendan, but here it is again) https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... We hav
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by bsclifton 6y ago
The affiliate autocomplete problem was acknowledged as a mistake and removed. More info at https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/
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by bsclifton 6y ago
I think what you're describing are the "Tip" buttons which can be added on a few supported sites (which can be disabled). They aren't selling anything- it's a feature which people can use if they like. The server im
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by bsclifton 6y ago
The service itself is open source and can be hosted by a community. It has a different authentication scheme (ex: not Google accounts) and enforces client side encryption by default. See https://github.com/brave/go-sync
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by bsclifton 6y ago
It would take require changes to Chromium (with regards to authentication), but Brave's sync server is open source and protocol-wise mostly compatible (client side encryption is enforced): https://github.com/brave/
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by bsclifton 6y ago
CAPTCHA fix released just a few mins ago! :)
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by bsclifton 6y ago
CAPTCHA fix released just a few mins ago! :)
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by bsclifton 6y ago
Chromium might be Google dominated, but it's definitely an open source project. The reviewers I have worked with have been fair and have granted me more access as I've gotten more involved If you check the commit logs or the AUTHO
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by bsclifton 6y ago
This would be extremely cool - and we (at Brave) did put in work to get a solution working (huge kudos to Jocelyn Liu who did the work). Repo up at https://github.com/brave/go-translate However, the problem comes to li
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by bsclifton 6y ago
Fix coming tomorrow for this :) If you don't want to wait, you can check out the pre-release version here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.16.71 Nightly already has the fix an
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by bsclifton 6y ago
What exactly is closed source? Signing, configs, etc are of course private... but all of the code should be online - https://github.com/brave - https://github.com/brave-intl
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by bsclifton 6y ago
That's part of "Web3" (aka Dapps) and you can turn it off. Under brave://settings/extensions for `Ethereum provider for using Dapps` pick `None`
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by bsclifton 6y ago
Fix for the CAPTCHA issue coming! There's a pre-release version out which you can try: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.16.71 Shooting to have the official version out today or
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by bsclifton 7y ago
Setting aside the rewards program, people can and will use ad-blockers. Even if those were illegal for some reason, there are lists available (such as hosts, https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts ) where you can make kno
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by bsclifton 7y ago
(employee here) We do take security very seriously and have been able to deliver a 24 hour turn-around when there are Chromium updates (like the recent zero-day bugs which were patched in C78). We also have a bounty program open via hackero
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by bsclifton 7y ago
The tokens get set aside (tracked only in the user's browser) but nothing happens until you verify on https://creators.brave.com/ Once you verify, the tokens will leave the user's wallet and are put into a wallet
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by bsclifton 7y ago
Tokens only go to verified publishers. Signing up to receive them is basically that consent. Otherwise (site or channel not verified), the transaction never leaves the user's browser wikipedia.org, slashdot.org, and other sites that sh

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