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  "path": "/t/wish-for-clean-brave-browser/34448?page=7#post_135",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-09T23:32:06.000Z",
  "site": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net",
  "tags": [
    "Ungoogled Chromium - #13 by WhiteMoose",
    "Ungoogled Chromium - #3 by dngray",
    "ungoogled-chromium",
    "Browser Account isolation (with seperate browsers) - #4 by dngray"
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  "textContent": "Hank:\n\n> Helium.\n\nWell, I wouldn’t recommend using this browser unless you’re fine with giving up some security.\n\nAs you’re probably aware, Helium is a fork of Ungoogled Chromium, and therefore it unfortunately delivers subpar security practices:\n\n1 - UC deployment is inconsistent, with days, and sometimes week, of severe CVEs going unpatched. This was a hard lesson for me, as you can see in my earlier discussion on the topic here: Ungoogled Chromium - #13 by WhiteMoose\n\n> “To tie it back to UC, that project is much more likely to inadvertently do what you assumed Trivalent did, since instead of source code changes being entirely comprised of git diffs that generate visible merge conflicts when relevant, they use scripts that edit source code as well. This could lead to unnoticed conflicts, including those involving CVE fixes.”\n\n2 - Updates for UC are already slow, can you imagine how it is for Helium? We’re talking about Chromium → UC → Helium. Not a carved rule but with good ferequency tools that are further removed from the upstream source generally introduce additional security risk.\n\n3 - UC/Helium rely on third-party scripts: Ungoogled Chromium - #3 by dngray\n\n> “We won’t be adding that. Builds are managed by untrusted third parties.”\n\nAlso: ungoogled-chromium\n\n4 - There are additional concerns discussed here: Browser Account isolation (with seperate browsers) - #4 by dngray\n\nAll of this information can be found on the forum. Brave is open source, regardless of what we think about it. People adopt Brave not because it is necessarily the best Chromium-based browser (although I think it might be), but because it is the least bad option.",
  "title": "Wish for \"clean\" Brave Browser"
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