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>Brave has built-in telemetry. Brave will make a ton of requests to the domain p3a.brave.com as telemetry So does Firefox, yet this blog post suggests it as a
by h_anna_h 5y ago
>Brave has built-in telemetry. Brave will make a ton of requests to the domain p3a.brave.com as telemetry
So does Firefox, yet this blog post suggests it as a replacement.
>Brave isn’t more than Chromium with another skin and a built-in adblocker with reduced functionality.
As far as I know it includes additional functionality such as build-in support for tor and ipfs. (and while it might not be the best choice if you want privacy, it at least makes onion sites accessible for normal people)
>This means that you need to update the entire browser to fix a bug in the adblocker
Just like for bugs in the firefox tracking protection and the dev tools in most browsers? It is like they are trying to include as much nitpicking as possible.
>However, it seems to have a contrary effect, since it sends requests to fetch the information required
Just like firefox.
>Brave uses Google’s gstatic, which is btw using Cloudflare.
Firefox uses Google analytics in about:addons.
>Hostility towards forks
looks at iceweasel
>The only browser that does not use Google’s web engine (blink) is Firefox
I would include Safari, at least from the popular ones.
(disclaimer: I am a Firefox user)
- jonathansampson 5y agoBrave's telemetry is private by design; you can read about it at https://brave.com/p3a https://brave.com/p3a. You're absolutely right about Firefox's telemetry though, which is often served up from a another process after Firefox is closed. This was covered in more detail on my post regarding network activity of popular browsers at https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/ https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/. You picked apart the author's narrative pretty nicely here. I provided 3 comments (quite long ones) as well with more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552530.