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While your arguments make sense, I find the continuous calling of other browsers as having keyloggers disingenuous. The only difference for Brave you've mention
by TheCapeGreek 6y ago
While your arguments make sense, I find the continuous calling of other browsers as having keyloggers disingenuous. The only difference for Brave you've mentioned elsewhere in the thread is that it's opt-in by default instead of opt-out, which is fair.
Also, by this logic any text field that does something with your input before explicitly pressing a submit button is also a keylogger. That just doesn't make sense.
- jonathansampson 6y agoWhen an application sends your keystrokes (or an accidental/unintended paste) off to a third-party without your consent, I think it is fair to call that a keylogger. > …by this logic any text field that does something with your input before explicitly pressing a submit button is also a keylogger. I respectfully disagree, since there are many things a text field can do with input which doesn't violate the user privacy (e.g. local spell-checking, input sanitization). My objection is with the automatic transmission of keystrokes to third-parties without the explicit consent of the user. Whether we agree to call this "key-logging" or not isn't as important. We can both agree that this could result in the unintended sharing of very sensitive data—that's the point I'm trying to make. Cheers!