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[-] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

And Brave too, which inconveniently beats firefox hands down in independent privacy checks. The mozilla foundation finally needs to step it up.

[-] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 42 points 9 months ago

That heavily depends. Brave may have better advice/tracker blocking by default, but they send more telemetry. Them being an advertising company also doesn’t speak for them. Brave is a decent browser and on IOS/IPadOS a good option for open source + Adblock, but max privacy would be reconfigured Firefox or Librewolf.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 9 points 9 months ago

Everyone's just trying to strike a balance between protecting privacy and preserving usability - it's not as simple as just enabling the strictest privacy protections, consequences be damned. Case in point: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brave-to-end-strict-fingerprinting-protection-as-it-breaks-websites/

[-] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

I have no idea why you were down voted. These are facts, not opinions

[-] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Fact: Brave is a protection racket wrapped in a crypto scam.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 months ago

Even if it weren't for the crypto, Brave's CEO is one sleazy, untrustworthy motherfucker. I'd never put my privacy in his hands. Just an absolute dogshit reputation.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I figured there was enough to criticize without needing to resort to ad-hominem attacks against the CEO. However, if we're going there, then I'd be remiss not to point out that he's also the motherfucker who inflicted Javascript upon the world when we could've had a decent language like Python or Scheme in the browser instead. Not to downplay the significance of his bigotry, but that's almost the greatest sin of them all!

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Homophobes always come bundled with a lot of other problems. There's no way anyone can trust a homophobe of any kind.

Anyway, blocking you. Have a great life, asshole.

Edit: Bonus fuck javascript

Edit 2: This was so wrong of me, I'm sorry. I'm an ass. Leaving my comment for honesty's sake.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Hey Linky… friendly fire!

That guy was agreeing with you:

  • Brave bad
  • JavaScript bad
  • Bigotry bad

:)

Yeah sorry about that. I see that now. Unblocking engaged.

I'm so used to people trying to shut other people down for "ad hominem attacks" that I had a real misfire. That's embarrassing and wrong of me. Thank you for so gently pointing this out, I appreciate it.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 8 points 8 months ago

It's also yet another Chromium fork which if there's one thing the world does not need more of, it's Chromium forks

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Fact: your opinion is based on snippets of things you heard online and doesn't actually match reality 🤷

[-] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Fact: your opinion is based on snippets of things you heard online and doesn’t actually match reality 🤷

My facts come directly from Brave's own claims, so fuck off with your condescension, fanboi. Your dismissive trolling isn't welcome here.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Find me a claim from Brave's that it's a protection racket.

Find me a claim from Brave's that it's a crypto scam. NOT just that they use crypto, but that it's a scam.

And before you start, a blanket statement of "all crypto is a scam" is not a fact. It's hyperbole and your opinion.

So do you actually have "facts"? Or did you just present opinions as facts?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Of course criminals aren't going to admit that they're criminals. But when they describe their behavior (in this case, man-in-the-middle replacing sites' ads with their own and then extorting them to participate in the crypto scheme in order to replace the revenue) anybody objective would recognize that it is, in fact, criminal.

[-] Rooki@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Sadly its not just "heard". Just google it, you will find enough "incidents" brave had.

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