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This is not a good look for brave. (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[+] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It honestly might be true

Firefox and Brave both suck a bit in terms of privacy. They could be worse but they also could be way better.

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Firefox and Brave both suck a bit in terms of privacy.

Okay, I'll bite: how does Firefox suck in terms of privacy?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The main problem is the telemetry and targeted advertising.

However, it also could have a bit better defaults from a fingerprinting resistance perspective.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago

The targeted advertising happens locally in your browser. It doesn't upload your data to anywhere, so I don't see how that's relevant for privacy.

Similarly, I find it hard to imagine that they'd be able to personally identify a person from what they send in telemetry (see about:telemetry). I guess, if you install an add-on called "I'm Seymour Skinner from Springfield, USA", then they could, but even then, worst-case they know when you use the browser...

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