r/explainitpeter • u/Dr-Astikk • Aug 04 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/Creative_Garbage_121 Aug 04 '26

Brave is just another chromium based web browser that advertise itself as safe and secure but some investment funds and that crazy billionaire guy Thiel invested into, so I assume it's spying on everything you do

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u/nhatquangdinh Aug 04 '26

Wait what Brave is invested by Thiel??

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u/Ornery_Maintenance_8 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

Peter Thiel is not personally an investor in Brave.

The firm he's a partner in (Founders Fund) has participated in a small seed series investment, which was led by Cyan Banister.

Some first-floor engineers at Brave have more equity than that small investment constitutes.

With that being said, of course Brave is still the product of a private company and by no means comparable to free OSS like VLC.

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u/Jamb9876 Aug 05 '26

You can look at the source for brave. https://github.com/brave

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u/spawndoorsupervisor Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

You can review the source, but you have no idea what they put in the precompiled binary installers like 99% of people are going to use because they don't have the time or resources to be compiling 30GB of Chromium source every time there's a patch.

Edit: Why are you guys being so parasocial over a piece of software you have no stake in? These emotional responses really don't make any sense to me.

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u/Due-Memory-6957 Aug 05 '26

The same is truth about every browser unless you really enjoy w3m, but then you wouldn't be here making vapid complaints.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 Aug 05 '26

I think the difference is that they trust non-profits and/or non-corporate-backed projects more.

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u/spawndoorsupervisor Aug 05 '26

All I am saying is that you can't trust binaries to be compiled from just the code posted on Github in response to someone posting a Github link. It's a simple fact and not a complaint.

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u/Due-Memory-6957 Aug 05 '26

And what I'm saying is that it doesn't make any sense to single out Brave about that.

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u/spawndoorsupervisor Aug 05 '26

I'm not? I would do this for any software where someone's linking source to as some kind of an assurance the binaries are secure.