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  • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world
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    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
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      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.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

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

        • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          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.

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            9 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!

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          9 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
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          9 months ago

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

          • grue@lemmy.world
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            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.

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              9 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
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                9 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.

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            9 months ago

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