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Do Brave or Firefox do this?

hulitu 4y ago
Firefox no.
kokanee 4y ago
Brave does an enormous about of non-browser "stuff." Video calls, offline playlists, customizable news feeds, crypto wallet... they are trying to build a "super app" rather than a browser. The idea is that you can trust them because they aren't FAANG, but the problem is that if they actually were to succeed then they would be FAANG. I haven't used Firefox in ages but AFAIK it has very little bloatware. The problem, from the perspective of a web dev, is that it has quite a few rendering quirks/bugs. These days chromium sets the standard for the "correct" way to render things.
- circuit10 4y ago
  I use Firefox and do some web development on it sometimes and I don’t really notice many/any bugs either with 3rd party sites or ones I’m making, apart from things that are unsupported on purpose like the file access API Though I have noticed some issues in Teams but that’s about it
- alanwreath 4y ago
  Brave may do all that you touched on - but it also aggressively blocks tracking. And the added stuff is not pushed in your face - blocking tracking is though.
  - Dah00n 4y ago
    But didn't it add stuff itself instead and got caught snooping twice?
    - soundnote 4y ago
      What do you mean? At least one of the cases was is routinely overblown to high heaven by people who hate the company and haven't actually read up on what happened.
- princevegeta89 4y ago
  Firefox has some foundational bugs, one of which was not being able to keep my bitwarden session in the extension in Private Windows.
  - kencausey 4y ago
    Have you checked the settings for the extension in about:addons to ensure that the extension is enabled for private mode? Find the extension in the list, click on it or click the dots and click 'manage', on the details tab ensure that 'Run in Private Windows' is enabled. I apologize if you are already well aware of this and that the problem is that is more complex than that.
    - princevegeta89 4y ago
      No need to apologize! Yeah it is actually quite different from what you have mentioned. Actually I did some Googling around, and found that it was fixed recently - after 4+ years lol. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/02/28/bitwarden-firefox-private-window-support/ https://www.ghacks.net/2022/02/28/bitwarden-firefox-private-...
isanjay112 4y ago
Firefox does not if you opt out of telemetry
- skrowl 4y ago
  In case anyone was wondering how, it's pretty straight forward: Hamburger Menu > Settings Privacy & Security tab on the left Scroll down to the Firefox Data Collection and Use section (2nd section from bottom) Uncheck all of the boxes in this section
  - cmeacham98 4y ago
    FYI: You might be shadowbanned. A lot of your recent comments are marked as dead, without seeming low quality enough to get flags (including this one, which I just vouched for). What's weird is that some of your comments aren't dead, and typically shadowbanned users have all of their comments auto-marked as dead. It's possible those got vouches though.
    - skrowl 4y ago
      [dead]
- eastbound 4y ago
  Firefox nags about getting a Mozilla account, uploading your history to Mozilla servers tagged with your email. Very private. Mozilla’s only step towards privacy is that it opens tabs all the time telling you how much Big Browser care about your privacy. And don’t get me started on Firefox nagging people to use Mozilla VPN, and their push towards DNS over HTTPS, as in “Trust me dude, I want your logins, your passwords, your DNS and your VPN, and pinky swear I’m just a charity with benevolent intentions, Google just gives us money for… stuff.”
  - dotancohen 4y ago
    As a Firefox user I have no idea what you are talking about.

Firefox no.

Brave does an enormous about of non-browser "stuff." Video calls, offline playlists, customizable news feeds, crypto wallet... they are trying to build a "super app" rather than a browser. The idea is that you can trust them because they aren't FAANG, but the problem is that if they actually were to succeed then they would be FAANG. I haven't used Firefox in ages but AFAIK it has very little bloatware. The problem, from the perspective of a web dev, is that it has quite a few rendering quirks/bugs. These days chromium sets the standard for the "correct" way to render things.

circuit10 4y ago
I use Firefox and do some web development on it sometimes and I don’t really notice many/any bugs either with 3rd party sites or ones I’m making, apart from things that are unsupported on purpose like the file access API Though I have noticed some issues in Teams but that’s about it
alanwreath 4y ago
Brave may do all that you touched on - but it also aggressively blocks tracking. And the added stuff is not pushed in your face - blocking tracking is though.
- Dah00n 4y ago
  But didn't it add stuff itself instead and got caught snooping twice?
  - soundnote 4y ago
    What do you mean? At least one of the cases was is routinely overblown to high heaven by people who hate the company and haven't actually read up on what happened.
princevegeta89 4y ago
Firefox has some foundational bugs, one of which was not being able to keep my bitwarden session in the extension in Private Windows.
- kencausey 4y ago
  Have you checked the settings for the extension in about:addons to ensure that the extension is enabled for private mode? Find the extension in the list, click on it or click the dots and click 'manage', on the details tab ensure that 'Run in Private Windows' is enabled. I apologize if you are already well aware of this and that the problem is that is more complex than that.
  - princevegeta89 4y ago
    No need to apologize! Yeah it is actually quite different from what you have mentioned. Actually I did some Googling around, and found that it was fixed recently - after 4+ years lol. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/02/28/bitwarden-firefox-private-window-support/ https://www.ghacks.net/2022/02/28/bitwarden-firefox-private-...

isanjay112 4y ago

Firefox does not if you opt out of telemetry

skrowl 4y ago
In case anyone was wondering how, it's pretty straight forward: Hamburger Menu > Settings Privacy & Security tab on the left Scroll down to the Firefox Data Collection and Use section (2nd section from bottom) Uncheck all of the boxes in this section
- cmeacham98 4y ago
  FYI: You might be shadowbanned. A lot of your recent comments are marked as dead, without seeming low quality enough to get flags (including this one, which I just vouched for). What's weird is that some of your comments aren't dead, and typically shadowbanned users have all of their comments auto-marked as dead. It's possible those got vouches though.
  - skrowl 4y ago
    [dead]
eastbound 4y ago
Firefox nags about getting a Mozilla account, uploading your history to Mozilla servers tagged with your email. Very private. Mozilla’s only step towards privacy is that it opens tabs all the time telling you how much Big Browser care about your privacy. And don’t get me started on Firefox nagging people to use Mozilla VPN, and their push towards DNS over HTTPS, as in “Trust me dude, I want your logins, your passwords, your DNS and your VPN, and pinky swear I’m just a charity with benevolent intentions, Google just gives us money for… stuff.”
- dotancohen 4y ago
  As a Firefox user I have no idea what you are talking about.