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No. Couldn't care less what the founder did or didn't do. We need as many non-Google browsers as possible. The problem with Brave is that it is a chromium browser.
no one wants to secure their web render so they'll always use whatever is native to the platform.
on windows that's chromium. on macos that's webkit.
What does this even mean. Chromium or Webkit are not "native" to an OS. OSs don't magically include browser engines, its not a critical component of an OS either.
Most OSs do come with browsers preinstalled, but they are programs just like any other. You can remove Safari from macOS (albeit its pretty hard because root is read only and signed), you can remove Edge from Windows. In my desktop with Windows 10 the only browser I have is Firefox (not even Edge), does that make Gecko the "native" browser engine?
If anything, the native browser engine for Windows would be MSHTML from Internet Explorer.
you're overthinking the word native.
You're still not clarifying what you mean.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/3235821
So what is "native to the platform" according to your definition?
https://lemmy.ml/comment/3235821
By your definition. If I bought a phone and Facebook came pre-installed it means that Facebook is native to my phone?
Yes. That's exactly what his definition means.
I can kinda appreciate what he's trying to say, but I think "default" might be a better word than "native", but I'm not an expert.