Gorilla Thug
Someone tried to do it a few years back and either got threatened with a lawsuit or actually got sued by Brave because of it. The browser was called Braver; you can look it up!
Jul 15, 2023 at 11:21pmWeb
Show threadJusticeJul 16, 2023

Is Brave not open source?

I mean I get why a normie would back down even from a bullshit suit from a company (laws favor capital and they can drag it forever to fuck you… Nintendo loves doing this too with the Switch modding community (most recently))

Assholes either way. Developing using open source code and then crying foul when someone removes you bullshit.

Show threadGorilla ThugJul 16, 2023
It is so I don’t understand on what basis they wanted to sue the forking developer. At first it was trademark issues (they renamed the project from 'Braver‘ to 'Bold Browser‘) and then the developer stopped working on it at some point, however, I can‘t find any information about why they did so.
Show threadJusticeJul 16, 2023
I goggled it after reading your comment and found the same info. It’s pretty common for small projects to get started and abandoned quickly, but in this one specific case I do want to read a comment from that group of developers years later if it was fear, boredom, whatever else that made them abandon it
Show threadGorilla ThugJul 16, 2023

This is their repository btw: github.com/BoldBrowser

It seems they moved to making Ungoogled Chromium after that (you can see that Eloston, the major dev of that Chromium fork, contributed to the repo) and then maybe they just changed the repository and continued working elsewhere? That would at least explain the README.

Bold Browser

A privacy-respecting browser without a token or adware. - Bold Browser

GitHub
Show threadJusticeJul 16, 2023
Ah ok. I’ve seen that project before. Might take another look, although I usually just use Firefox or forks of it. Kind of soured on chromium browsers after Google announced for the 800th time, and for real this time (they said), that they would be blocking ad blockers. I just said fuck it, time to blast the past like it’s 2006 again