Brave Browser vs Cromite

Brave Browser is a free, open-source browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It blocks third-party ads and tracking, including video, search, and social media ads; Shields also blocks tracking scripts and ads that depend on them. Brave protects against browser fingerprinting and can upgrade webpages to secure HTTPS connections. Users may choose to view privacy-protecting ads and earn BAT through Brave Rewards, and browser ads can be switched off. Brave Search is the default for most new users and works in any browser, but disabling its search ads requires Search Premium. The browser is built on the open-source Chromium Web core under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Separate services include Search Premium at $29.99 per year, Talk Premium at $69.99 per year, Brave VPN at $99.99 per year, and Leo AI Premium at $149.99 per year. VPN, Talk Premium, and Leo Premium offer seven-day free trials. Brave says its VPN encrypts every connection, follows a no-logs policy, and receives independent software and infrastructure audits. Enterprise group policies can customize enabled and disabled features.

Cromite is a free, open-source Chromium fork based on Bromite, available for Android, Linux and Windows. Its modified Adblock Plus engine adds DNS CNAME support and blocks WebSockets, WebTransport URLs and service worker fetches. Privacy measures include API restrictions, canvas and audio mitigations, and cookie partitioning by top-frame domain. Network prediction features such as DNS and page prefetching are disabled by default and cannot be reactivated. Cromite also disables Google Sync, browser sign-in, Translate, metrics reporting, component updates and several other Google integrations. Listed security defaults include StrictOriginIsolation, SitePerProcess, secure DNS-over-HTTPS and Certificate Transparency; JavaScript JIT is off by default. The maker says anti-fingerprinting protections are not comprehensive and does not consider Cromite suitable for journalists or people living under freedom restrictions. It does not support DRM media or extensions on Android. Android builds are available for ARM, ARM64 and x86, while Windows and Linux builds are 64-bit. The project directs issues and discussion to GitHub.