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Bug 833119 - www-client/brave-browser: new package
Summary: www-client/brave-browser: new package
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
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Reported: 2022-02-11 10:43 UTC by Vitaly Zdanevich
Modified: 2023-04-16 19:26 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Attachments
PKGBUILD to compile the browser from source code (PKGBUILD,18.67 KB, text/plain)
2023-03-25 17:38 UTC, Eduardo Coutinho Scalabrin
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Description Vitaly Zdanevich 2022-02-11 10:43:19 UTC
https://brave.com

With faster ad blocker and privacy protection, integrated IPFS, TOR, torrent.
Comment 1 Vitaly Zdanevich 2022-02-11 10:48:39 UTC
Related forum thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1107202.html
Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-02-11 13:58:26 UTC
You'll get much of the same from Firefox with a couple extensions like uBlock Origin and Privacy Badget, without all the Brave baggage.
Comment 3 Vitaly Zdanevich 2022-02-11 16:23:36 UTC
But their ad blocker is faster, because written in Rust.

Ebuild could disable the baggage.
Comment 4 Eduardo Coutinho Scalabrin 2023-03-25 17:35:50 UTC
Hello everybody!

I am also very interested in this browser and I saw that there is a PKGBUILD for it in ArchLinux, which is attached...
Comment 5 Eduardo Coutinho Scalabrin 2023-03-25 17:38:52 UTC
Created attachment 858995 [details]
PKGBUILD to compile the browser from source code
Comment 6 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-03-28 15:23:51 UTC
I dare say we shouldn't expose our users to scam browsers, see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/s6haxm/one_year_with_brave_a_review_and_critique/
Comment 7 Eduardo Coutinho Scalabrin 2023-03-29 00:34:38 UTC
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #6)
> I dare say we shouldn't expose our users to scam browsers, see e.g.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/s6haxm/
> one_year_with_brave_a_review_and_critique/

Hello Michał Górny!

Thanks for the information, it was very useful!

Best regards,

Eduardo Coutinho Scalabrin
Comment 8 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-04-16 19:26:46 UTC
Yeah, I agree that we don't want Brave in Gentoo at all, for a variety of reasons:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology
https://raymondtec.com/2019/02/facebook-twitter-trackers-whitelisted-by-brave-browser/
https://arunmozhi.in/2021/12/06/goodbye-brave/

There's an overlay with it if you really want it.