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This is not a good look for brave.
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It's technically correct with all of these but extremely disingenuous.
I mean, you could do this with anything
nazism:
-✅️ Very terrifying and intimidating uniforms
Every other ideology:
-❌️ Does not have terrifying and intimidating uniforms*
*According to opinions of career nazis
This is what Brave is doing 🙄
Well, actually it should be:
Firefox does block trackers by default, but apparently that's "limited protection", according to who the fuck knows, so it gets the ❌.
Kind of funny they list their built-in, paid VPN as a positive feature and not a negative. Maybe they were running out of good things to say about... Themselves.
Granted, Mozilla also shot themselves in the foot by saying Firefox was better for not blocking ads by default, but that's a different story for a different day
Out of the ling of things I will never trust, free VPN is near the top of the list
The real good: Baked in Youtube ad-blocking with a full dev team playing keep up with youtube Better at anti-fingerprinting Built-in mediocre TOR support.
The real bad: They will sell your data. They will sell your data from their VPN
The rest of their bad is optional. Don't use them for search and don't use their crypto.
If you're going to use them, at least keep a fully equivalently outfitted copy of firefox, you don't want to get stuck if they finally decide to turn full evil.
Yeah this is the brave experience. Free and open source product that behaves as advertised... from a company that acts like they're perpetually on the brink of fucking you over. Really hope this doesn't happen, brave's approach to antifingerprinting is actually quite interesting and completely different to what we see in the firefox-based hardened browsers.
I honestly really like what they do with the fingerprinting. But it's just a straight trade. Now amazon can't follow me directly, but Brave will certainly sell Amazon the info that I shopped at Home Depot looking for discontinued air filters :)
FF fingerprinting with UO and privacy badger are by no means bad, they are actually quite acceptable.
What does privacy badger do that isn't covered by UO? Is it worth it to install privacy badger if I already use a browser like librewolf that nukes all data every time it's restarted?
It's EFF's tracker blocker. All they have is their name, so I have a lot of trust in them. I use it in concert with chrome and firefox based browsers. In FF it tightens up the tracking a bit. Doesn't eat much ram/time.