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by mcbits 2557 days ago
Brave is built upon Electron, which is built upon Chromium (not Chrome). Electron and Chromium are both open source, unlike Chrome, although development is still concentrated in Google and GitHub/Microsoft. So I imagine it's fine unless something egregious happens with those projects and there isn't a strong enough community to maintain a clean fork.
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> Brave is built upon Electron, which is built upon Chromium (not Chrome).

Brave has been built directly upon Chromium since December 2018[1].

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328781/brave-browser-...

Oops! I actually thought about double-checking that before writing it, but I vaguely remember reading some list of reasons why they had initially gone with Electron instead of Chromium, so I assumed it was still true.