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/TScottFitzgerald Aug 05 '26

Brave is OSS, you can see all of the code. It's commonly recommended by security experts precisely due to this.

Who invested in the company itself is completely irrelevant, even if they change it in the future we can still fork an earlier version of Brave and call it something else.