Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
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Re: Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
#2Well not so private after all. First duckduckgo now this. I wonder how many more apps advertise themselves as private yet expose too much
Re: Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
#3If you need an alternative to Brave, then see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708688. This comment also shares the auto-suggestions-for-profit which is another reason I'm not using it. Since I cannot use DDG nor Brave, the only alternative (besides the currently bloated Firefox -- in my biased opinion) is ungoogled-chromium.
Re: Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
#4well, compared to undisclosed affiliate marketing for trading sites[1], soliciting of donations without consent[2] or the recent redirection through affiliate links[3], this seems pretty tame.
[1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8793
[2]: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...
Re: Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
#5Lost all trust in Brave some time ago, back to FF.
Re: Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
#6Is it fair to _ever_ say that clearing the history completely removes all traces of visited sites? I have always operated under the assumption that some trace will remain pretty much forever.
Re: Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
#7If you need an alternative to Brave, then see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708688 . This comment also shares the auto-suggestions-for-profit which is another reason I'm not using it. Since I cannot use DDG nor Brave, the only alternative (besides the currently bloated Firefox -- in my biased opinion) is ungoogled-chromium.
Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708986 before deciding on which browser to switch to.
“Currently bloated Firefox” is a baseless claim in my opinion.
Re: Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
#8If you need an alternative to Brave, then see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708688 . This comment also shares the auto-suggestions-for-profit which is another reason I'm not using it. Since I cannot use DDG nor Brave, the only alternative (besides the currently bloated Firefox -- in my biased opinion) is ungoogled-chromium.
In what sense is Firefox bloated compared to brave?
Re: Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
#9If you need an alternative to Brave, then see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708688 . This comment also shares the auto-suggestions-for-profit which is another reason I'm not using it. Since I cannot use DDG nor Brave, the only alternative (besides the currently bloated Firefox -- in my biased opinion) is ungoogled-chromium.
Are you a former DDG employee?
And to clarify you do use the DDG search engine, just not their browser.
Re: Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
#10Is it fair to _ever_ say that clearing the history completely removes all traces of visited sites? I have always operated under the assumption that some trace will remain pretty much forever.
Why would you make this assumption? It seems perfectly reasonable to me to assume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that a program actually does what it claims to do.