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  Brave Browser john-locke@nym.hush.com - 2025-12-09 10:40 +0100
    Re: Brave Browser <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2025-12-09 12:20 +0100
    Re: Brave Browser Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org> - 2025-12-09 12:20 +0100
      Re: Brave Browser <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2025-12-09 12:30 +0100
    Re: Brave Browser Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org> - 2025-12-14 19:40 +0100
      Re: Brave Browser Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2025-12-14 22:50 +0100
      Re: Brave Browser Antoine Le Gonidec <vv221@debian.org> - 2025-12-15 01:50 +0100

#14058 — Brave Browser

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Hello,Can you include the BRAVE broswer in your software install
packages ?It is necessary for better security....ThanksJohn

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#14060

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 04:16:36AM -0500, john-locke@nym.hush.com wrote:
> Hello,Can you include the BRAVE broswer in your software install
> packages ?It is necessary for better security....ThanksJohn

You may want to help sorting out things?

  https://wiki.debian.org/Brave

and follow the links.

Cheers & thanks for your help
-- 
tomás

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#14061

Hi,

> Can you include the BRAVE broswer in your software install packages ?
> It is necessary for better security....

Do you mean that any Debian system benefits from installing Brave to 
improve its security? Obviously not.

I see no benefit in including a ton of Chromium forks in Debian, let 
alone one that thinks mining cryptocurrency on users' end devices is a 
good idea and that steals donations from third party open source 
projects through built-in scam in the browser.

Of course, if someone packages it, and pledges to remove all parts 
incompatible with DFSG or Debian's other policies, nothing prevents it 
from being included, but I'd recommend not doing so, and also recommend 
not to use Brave at all.

-nik

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#14062

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 10:39:57AM +0100, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Can you include the BRAVE broswer in your software install packages ?
> > It is necessary for better security....
> 
> Do you mean that any Debian system benefits from installing Brave to improve
> its security? Obviously not.

I already replied: there is an ITP, where one could follow the ongoing
discussion (and yes, contribute to it!). Instead of doing the Groundhog
thing over and over again.

Communication is a two-way affair.

Cheers
-- 
t

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#14064

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Hi,

Quoting Davide Prina (2025-12-14 10:52:34)
> > Can you include the BRAVE broswer in your software install packages ?  It
> > is necessary for better security....
> 
> you can try firefox + phoenix 
> 
> $ apt show phoenix
> [...]
>  Phoenix is a suite of configurations and advanced modifications for Mozilla
>  Firefox and FireFox ESR, designed to put the user first with a focus on
>  privacy, security, freedom, & usability.
> [...]
> 
> https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/wiki
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/phoenix

please be aware that phoenix installs settings which will end up deleting your
browsing history when you close your browser after installing the package. This
is also mentioned in the package description further down. I'm writing this
here in the hopes that none of those reading this ends up nuking their browser
history.

I want to add a debconf override for this and upstream wants to help with
making this easier but as usual, additional help from those who know more about
firefox configuration settings than I do, is welcome. :)

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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#14065

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On December 14, 2025 10:32:33 AM Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues 
<josch@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Quoting Davide Prina (2025-12-14 10:52:34)
>>> Can you include the BRAVE broswer in your software install packages ?  It
>>> is necessary for better security....
>>
>> you can try firefox + phoenix
>>
>> $ apt show phoenix
>> [...]
>> Phoenix is a suite of configurations and advanced modifications for Mozilla
>> Firefox and FireFox ESR, designed to put the user first with a focus on
>> privacy, security, freedom, & usability.
>> [...]
>>
>> https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/wiki
>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/phoenix
>
> please be aware that phoenix installs settings which will end up deleting your
> browsing history when you close your browser after installing the package.

Wow. Thanks for the heads up. I depend on my history a lot.
Phoenix is not on my list any more


> This
> is also mentioned in the package description further down. I'm writing this
> here in the hopes that none of those reading this ends up nuking their browser
> history.
>
> I want to add a debconf override for this and upstream wants to help with
> making this easier but as usual, additional help from those who know more about
> firefox configuration settings than I do, is welcome. :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> cheers, josch

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#14066

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Le Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 07:28:55PM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues a écrit :
> please be aware that phoenix installs settings which will end up deleting your
> browsing history when you close your browser after installing the package. (…)
> 
> I want to add a debconf override for this and upstream wants to help with
> making this easier but as usual, additional help from those who know more about
> firefox configuration settings than I do, is welcome. :)

Thanks for considering that update. Since I use the browsing history instead of bookmarks
this would be a requirement before I can consider relying on phoenix.

(to be fair I am most probably going to write my own custom setup, using phoenix as inspiration)

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