Your friendly reminder that the Brave CEO is Mozillas old CEO, who was fired from Mozilla for being unapologetically homophobic.
Since everyone else is piling on negatively, I appreciated your friendly reminder.
So?
What I care about in this story is the technical issues.
Then you can not act on it and those of us who care about such things can. Does that bother you?
technical issues
Well technically the CEO would have an issue with you if you were gay
Lmao
O...kay? I don't really care lmao
Wait why are you on the privacy community when you don't care about the parts that are specifically related to privacy?
Pay no attention to the butthurt shills.
He wasn't fired. He voluntarily left. And thus Mozilla is left with an incompetent CEO whose only aim is to increase her paycheck year after year, despite pathetic market share results for FF. Enjoy that.
That said, nobody cares about your "friendly remainders". We're talking about software here, not politics.
And, to stay on topic, yes, it happened to me that Strict FP broke some website, in particular those displaying a frame with a map or similar stuff. So I've resorted to use "standard" FP myself.
nobody cares about your "friendly remainders". We're talking about software here, not politics.
Nah. I care. You dont speak for me. I cant tell if you're a shill for Brave or a MAGAt or both.
Wow. The internet must be really rough for you if people don’t wear labels so you know who to hate before learning a damn thing about them!
I'm not a shill for Brave. It has its fair share of technical issues but it's the less worse browser for my use case (better than FF, anyway). Your (or mine) opinion on the CEO has nothing to do with the technical issue discussed in OP's link.
And no, what MAGA are you talking about? I'm not even 'murican. Take your meds, dude.
Take your meds, dude.
It’s 2024 you should know this is a terrible thing to say to people.
Technology and ethics and politics are not airgapped magically distinct things. Pretending that they are is a strategic political choice you are actively making.
Worse than merely being homophobic, as he financially supported politicians and causes that worked to prevent equal rights.
The scam company brave? The one that scams people? With their scam based crypto rewards that don't pay out? THAT brave?
Whenever people tell me to use Brave, I know they fall for marketing very easily
Braves default fingerprinting protection is better than the one that librewolf uses, or at least it is according to the EFF.
Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks owns ad revenue.
Another issue is that Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave's users, with the rest using the default setting, which is the Standard mode.
How are they getting this data? If it's with telemetry this data doesn't seem reliable, I doubt that people who change the fingerprint setting don't disable telemetry.
I used brave for a while, but left as I felt there was something fishy about them. Seems I was right
I'd ask why they don't make it optional (I'm not a Brave user) but it seems it was.
Another issue is that Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave's users, with the rest using the default setting, which is the Standard mode.
This low percentage actually makes these users more vulnerable to fingerprinting despite them using the more aggressive blocker, because they constitute a discernible subset of users standing out from the rest.
Given that, I'm inclined to agree with the decision to remove it. Pick your battles and live to fight another day.
Unless there’s a strong correlation between those who set fingerprint protection to strict and those that disable telemetry
In that case they’re about to piss off a much larger portion of their users than they realize
I'd rather have the sites break to be honest
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