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Half the data Chrome collects is harmless, and the other half is up to the user to give up:
- Location data: you are asked and must approve for Chrome to use (at least on macOS) - Financial data: you must enter it manually and click "save for future use".
Could it be better? Sure! But I think DDG is exaggerating here. We're not _that_ bad.
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It's better than Chrome and FF imho. Lacks the tracking BS from Chrome, and FF has gone downhill.. Any reasons not too?
Why not use a Firefox fork like Waterfox? That fixes a number of the complaints people have with Firefox while not pushing us towards a browser engine monopoly - which you do by using a Chromium based browser. Besides, the Basic Attention Token crap in Brave is kinda shady.
Why would you use a proprietary browser when Firefox is around?
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Brave uses Chromium.
What's wrong with Chromium? I don't think Google's tracking specifically has anything to do with Chromium. Chromium !== Chrome
Controversial opinion: Half the data Chrome collects is harmless, and the other half is up to the user to give up: - Location data: you are asked and must approve for Chrome to use (at least on macOS) - Financial data: you must enter it manually and click "save for future use". Could it be better? Sure! But I think DDG is exaggerating here. We're not _that_ bad.
Good find here! Using Brave + Duck duck go.
Why Brave??
"Ungoogled Chromium", while FOSS, have no good update method, and since i'm not going to build it myself, I don't have the same level of trust that something malicious hasn't been implanted.
Brave provides similar features to ungoogled chromium and I don't have to support Mozilla or Google and their practices.
Big issue is the trust factor. As well as all the Chrome zero days going out, not having security updates in a timely manner is risky.