Karna@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoBrave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websiteswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareLWD@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoThere’s no reason to hate Brave unless you have a political bias against their CEO. Besides in 2016, when Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners And when the CEO unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list. And in 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent. And in 2020, when Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites. Also in 2020, when they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: “the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression.” Further requests were ignored (immediately closed) And in 2022, when Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages. And in 2023, when Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users’ computers without their consent.
minus-squarePantherina@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoWe really need a based privacy-first Chromium fork… something that allows installing addons from a custom source removes everything Google tracking related adds good sync compatible with things like floccus is hardened with switches like MS Edge has a good UI like Firefox restricts fingerprinting by randomizing or blocking many identifiers
There’s no reason to hate Brave unless you have a political bias against their CEO.
Besides in 2016, when Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners
And when the CEO unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list.
And in 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent.
And in 2020, when Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites.
Also in 2020, when they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: “the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression.” Further requests were ignored (immediately closed)
And in 2022, when Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.
And in 2023, when Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users’ computers without their consent.
We really need a based privacy-first Chromium fork… something that