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If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I mean, it's even listed on the reputable PrivacyTools website. Why am I telling you to steer clear of this browser, then?

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Thank goodness that we can post things in here without Braves astroturfed PR community galavanting to save face like what happened when any story against brave posted on the other site

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 days ago (11 children)

anyone believing brave is good for privacy is quite naive

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

It's good for privacy from the websites you visit, from itself is up for debate though lol

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago (3 children)

the crypto and the asshole ceo aside, nobody should trust a browser that claims to respect privacy that's based on chromium.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (7 children)

What's wrong with ungoogled-chromium? Or Vivaldi?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

ultimately they're still chromium and they still contribute to chrome's dominance.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Okay, but that's not a privacy reason.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

It is still a privacy reason. You are still contributing to googles plans to dominate and control the internet by using a chromium product its a privacy threat, and an everything else threat too.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Isn't every chromium browser going to lose manifest v2 eventually, causing the real ublock origin to stop working?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I don't know about every Chromium-based browser, but I can tell you that I went back to Firefox and regret nothing (I was on Brave). Firefox has gotten a lot better lately, especially on desktop. For example, they added a native auto-PiP option, which is super helpful for those of us who watch YouTube/videos while flipping through tons of tabs.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Eh, I think that's a stretch. Right now, Lemmy is going nuclear on Firefox. Should I also stop using Librewolf, too, because ultimately, it contributes to Firefox? Chromium is solid and I think it's better to show what type of chromium we want instead of outright boycotting the entire open source project.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Vivaldi sends an unstoppable user counter signal to their main server, promised to change the system and now they're ignoring any requests for updates on the issue.

That rustles my Jimmies, dings my bell and waves my red flags.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Brave has great anti-fingerprinting measures I just wish I could get that without installing crypto malware on my pc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Use Firefox with the Chameleon addon, works on Fennec as well (Android fork with Mozilla telemetry removed).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You only need uBlock basically, beware of other extensions. They're mostly snake oil and Firefox has anti-fingerprinting features per default.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Oh boy, I shared the spacebar news article a year ago or so and was hit by a shitstorm of indignant comments.

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