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Has Brave made their own "extension store" yet, or are they still piggybacking off Google's? This could be the way they set themselves apart; neither Google n
by mcpackieh 3y ago
Has Brave made their own "extension store" yet, or are they still piggybacking off Google's? This could be the way they set themselves apart; neither Google nor Mozilla do a good job of vetting extensions in their 'stores', both are packed with all manner of spyware. If brave made their own extension store and actually vetted extensions like Debian vets packages, they'd have a good argument for not being thought of as merely a chrome derivative.
- reneberlin 3y agoThe link to the chrome extension store at the bottom of the extensions page is called "Find extensions and themes in webshop". Webshop is a hyperlink and leads to the official google chrome extension marketplace. I always wondered how they can call it a webshop and then it isn't even their own. I thought google would complain about that, but somehow doesn't. TBH i use brave or chromium with adblocker as my main browsers. On mobile i used Opera mini for years, it had a serverside precompression of media and overall was really the fastest browser i have ever used to render a webpage. I don't know why i ditched it and don't know if it's still the same. Back then i just found out they have so many different little Opera browsers for mobile, that i was confused a lot by that scheme. But the performance of that one with serverside rendering was brutal. Of course: a security nightmare.
- topspin 3y ago> Has Brave made their own "extension store" yet No. And I believe Brave is missing a huge opportunity here.
- mcpackieh 3y agoI think if they don't eventually do this, their promise to maintain Manifest V2 extension support may become a moot point.