Brave, owned by Brendan Eich who has donated to homophobic charities and whose browser promotes a load of crypto bro shit on the new tab page.
Unironically, using straight up Google Chrome is better IMO
Bro missed his crypto scam chance by 6-12mo and just won't give up.
I tell people to use open source Chromium, Firefox or ... Hell, use Vivaldi or something. Brave is a bad time waiting to happen at this point.
Would you looks at that brave doing something crazy again.
I've seen this software behaviour back in the day, oh wait its called trojan.
Yet another reason to not use Brave.
If you care about privacy at all why are you installing brave
Why is every fucking post in the privacy communities just a circle jerk about Brave?
Marketing
I know "not everyone who cares about security has anything to hide" but the fact they're so eager to use the pedophile browser is... concerning.
And spyware for free, and I would not be surprised if they included an insecure backdoor at no extra cost.
Well I feel better about making the switch to Firefox now, and doing a custom user.js
u/@Max_P said this at the !technology thread:
Software installs services to make its features operate, including optional default off ones. More news at 10.
This is just like any other optional feature of Chromium you don't use
What is the consensus here on using Brave search in Firefox?
It's giga cringe
I've posted a similar question to asklemmy but more over the focus on preference than privacy. In short the search engine Kagi is really good, Brave search was what I had used for a while. I think search engine choice is a case by case kinda thing, each person uses what they like. There are some other engines I forgot from my post which are more privacy centered.
Kagi is a literal scam
Yes it is 10 dollars a month, but you can create an account and try it for free to see if it is for you. It also does not use your data nor push advertisements which explains the cost.
ddg does that for free
$10/mo is also crazy overpriced for a search engine, they're really not resource intensive at all
ddg relies on Bing so it isn't really comparable, idk about kagi's costs but they claim 1.2 cent per search and an average of 700 searches per month (as what they are serving and hence pricing for)
I don't use Windows but if you install a program that requires a service on Linux, the service will be written to your system's services daemon awaiting your activation. I don't see what the issue with that is.
What's to stop the installer on Linux from configuring the service such that the service always runs on boot? e.g. systemctl enable malware.service.
Linux doesn't have "installers" as Linux uses package managers. The only way you can get malware is if you manually add a bad repo.
So it doesn't really matter in the long run
You still need to manually enable the service. The configuration of the service has zero effect on its activation or lifecycle.
Huh? Any script can create a service, enable it and then start it. What would make you think the brave package (or just the application itself) can't do this?
That doesn't really seem that bad. There are issues with brave but that's not one of them
A VPN provider has the same level of insight into your traffic as an ISP does when not using a VPN. If having one installed without your consent isn't a privacy issue I don't know what is...
Is it activated by default though?
I just looked on a VM I spun up for risky shit. It seems to be opt-in only.
Is it a good VPN? No. Is it worth the overreacting that Lemmy seems to do every time someone mentions Brave? No.
But hey, social media.
Apparently we need a anti brave circle jerk
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