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Brave --- the easy way to fix this and lots of other privacy related issues affecting the most popular web browsers. As this article shows, you can fiddle with

Brave --- the easy way to fix this and lots of other privacy related issues affecting the most popular web browsers. As this article shows, you can fiddle with Edge and other browsers to try and make them more privacy respecting --- but why bother trying to hit a constantly moving target? Clearly, your privacy is not in their best interests and they will only continue to circumvent it.

LordShredda 3y ago
Brave is chromium based, which immediately means it's not going to help with anything
- propogandist 3y ago
  [dead]
- hot_gril 3y ago
  Brave has much worse issues than this. The link hijacking incident alone was reason enough never to trust them again. I'm convinced the whole point is selling snake oil to semi-privacy-conscious people. I even heard an FM radio host advertising Brave, if that says anything.
- unethical_ban 3y ago
  Issues about telemetry and privacy are separate from issues with web client hegemony.
- drakz 3y ago
  being Chromium based != bad for privacy
freediver 3y ago
> Brave --- the easy way to fix this and lots of other privacy related issues affecting the most popular web browsers. Unfortunately any browser with telemetry turned on by default is not fixing privacy related issues, but is making them worse.
NotYourLawyer 3y ago
Brave is not serious about privacy. Firefox.
- kernal 3y ago
  Firefox has telemetry and "run studies" turned on by default.
  - NotYourLawyer 3y ago
    Nothing’s perfect. Firefox is the least-bad of the available options, and it’s pretty good.
    - kernal 3y ago
      So now we've gone from respecting the user privacy to "least bad". You're either for user privacy or you're not.
      - NotYourLawyer 3y ago
        I mean, I guess use lynx if you’re that worried about it. Or use Firefox and spend 2 minutes customizing about:config. My point was just that Firefox is a lot better than Brave. I’ll stand by that.
        kernal 3y ago
        User privacy is a fallacy. The standards we judge applications are thrown out the window relative to the services we use in everyday life. Do you think your ISP, TV service, Cellphone carrier, Credit Card company, etc. care about your privacy and don't sell your data? The answer is rhetorical. Yet these user privacy hypocrites somehow exempt these egregious violations because it's just the way it is. I mean, heaven forbid Google stores my data in their impenetrable ultra secure data centers, but ISP's, TV providers, Cellphone carriers and Credit Card companies - go to town with my data and sell it to as many data brokers as you can.
ShowalkKama 3y ago
librewolf is like brave but: - it's firefox - its defaults are saner - it has no crypto bullshit
Havoc 3y ago
Brave is literally an ad funded company that made a pinky promise to only do good ad stuff. Boggles my mind that people view them as the solution to privacy
- deafpolygon 3y ago
  Marketing.
- drakz 3y ago
  Same with Mozilla who is being funded by Google's ads money. Whats your point?
Rapzid 3y ago
Brave --- Experience the websocket bugs of Safari but in a Chromium based browser!
eur0pa 3y ago
Surely you meant Ungoogled-Chromium. Brave isn't any better at privacy, and neither is Firefox.

LordShredda 3y ago

Brave is chromium based, which immediately means it's not going to help with anything

propogandist 3y ago
[dead]
hot_gril 3y ago
Brave has much worse issues than this. The link hijacking incident alone was reason enough never to trust them again. I'm convinced the whole point is selling snake oil to semi-privacy-conscious people. I even heard an FM radio host advertising Brave, if that says anything.
unethical_ban 3y ago
Issues about telemetry and privacy are separate from issues with web client hegemony.
drakz 3y ago
being Chromium based != bad for privacy

freediver 3y ago

> Brave --- the easy way to fix this and lots of other privacy related issues affecting the most popular web browsers. Unfortunately any browser with telemetry turned on by default is not fixing privacy related issues, but is making them worse.

NotYourLawyer 3y ago

Brave is not serious about privacy. Firefox.

kernal 3y ago
Firefox has telemetry and "run studies" turned on by default.
- NotYourLawyer 3y ago
  Nothing’s perfect. Firefox is the least-bad of the available options, and it’s pretty good.
  - kernal 3y ago
    So now we've gone from respecting the user privacy to "least bad". You're either for user privacy or you're not.
    - NotYourLawyer 3y ago
      I mean, I guess use lynx if you’re that worried about it. Or use Firefox and spend 2 minutes customizing about:config. My point was just that Firefox is a lot better than Brave. I’ll stand by that.
      - kernal 3y ago
        User privacy is a fallacy. The standards we judge applications are thrown out the window relative to the services we use in everyday life. Do you think your ISP, TV service, Cellphone carrier, Credit Card company, etc. care about your privacy and don't sell your data? The answer is rhetorical. Yet these user privacy hypocrites somehow exempt these egregious violations because it's just the way it is. I mean, heaven forbid Google stores my data in their impenetrable ultra secure data centers, but ISP's, TV providers, Cellphone carriers and Credit Card companies - go to town with my data and sell it to as many data brokers as you can.

ShowalkKama 3y ago

librewolf is like brave but: - it's firefox - its defaults are saner - it has no crypto bullshit

Havoc 3y ago

Brave is literally an ad funded company that made a pinky promise to only do good ad stuff. Boggles my mind that people view them as the solution to privacy

deafpolygon 3y ago
Marketing.
drakz 3y ago
Same with Mozilla who is being funded by Google's ads money. Whats your point?

Rapzid 3y ago

Brave --- Experience the websocket bugs of Safari but in a Chromium based browser!

eur0pa 3y ago

Surely you meant Ungoogled-Chromium. Brave isn't any better at privacy, and neither is Firefox.