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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by subtra3t »

wccrawford wrote: post #387
subtra3t wrote: post #200

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I feel like this comment was made in bad faith. Brave Rewards, the thing you're complaining about, is OPT-IN. That means you had to manually enable it in Brave's settings. You're complaining about something you consciously enabled.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027276731-Bra... This says it's opt out, not in.

In what section does it say it's opt-out? Not doubting your statement, just that I don't see it any of the sections I looked through.

If you mean the sponsored ads on the New Tab page, then yes they are indeed opt-out. But the person who I responded found the browser pop-ups annnoying. That is a part of Brave Rewards. The New Tab page ads are not a part of Brave Rewards unless you explicitly enable that in the settings (second section of the link you mentioned).

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ParetoOptimal »

tormeh wrote: post #414
Beijinger wrote: post #397

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I don't understand why people switch browsers. I have many browsers installed on my machine. For browsing I use a heavily modificated firefox. It would be difficult to use this browser for banking or even booking a plane ticket (plane booking websites can be quite fragile!). Use a browser for browsing, e.g. firefox with a tons of plus is, from ublock, noscript and a dozen others and use a main browser like chrome for…

With such a privacy-first config, might be easier to use librewolf as a base instead of plain firefox.

Or https://mullvad.net/en/browser

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by wccrawford »

subtra3t wrote: post #541
wccrawford wrote: post #387

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027276731-Bra... This says it's opt out, not in.

In what section does it say it's opt-out? Not doubting your statement, just that I don't see it any of the sections I looked through. If you mean the sponsored ads on the New Tab page, then yes they are indeed opt-out. But the person who I responded found the browser pop-ups annnoying. That is a part of Brave Rewards. The New Tab page ads are not a part of Brave Rewards unless you explicitly enable that in the settin…

Do I have to participate in Rewards in order to use Brave?

You do not need to participate in Rewards in order to enjoy Brave. However, note that sponsored images on the New Tab Page are on by default, but can easily be disabled. (If you enable Brave Rewards, you will earn for the New Tab Page sponsored images you see.)

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by michaelt »

jacquesm wrote: post #502
blibble wrote: post #496

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> But leaving the EU doesn't automatically turn your country into Switzerland or Norway like the UK expected. this was never expected or mentioned by anyone

Hm. It actually was. One of the major reasons the UK left the EU is because it would turn the UK into the financial center that it once was not having to deal with all these pesky EU regulations on financial markets. Small detail: it was the EU acting on behalf of the US that was the foundation for a lot of these regulations (mostly the fall out of a couple of really bad episodes) and Switzerland, one of the few hold…

> One of the major reasons the UK left the EU is because it would turn the UK into the financial center that it once was not having to deal with all these pesky EU regulations on financial markets.

Eh, yes and no.

A lot of the financial backing given to pro-Brexit politicians was from rich City types hoping to be deregulated, it's true.

But London, the financial centre, had some of the lowest support for Brexit (outside of Scotland). Areas like the West Midlands and Yorkshire had the highest levels of support, and they've got no financial industry to speak of.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by mrweasel »

tempestn wrote: post #420
mrweasel wrote: post #400

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It continues to surprise me that people use the home screen, regardless of it being Firefox or Chrome. New window, new tab, I always set that to a blank page, in my mind that should be the default.

It surprises me that you'd be surprised. It's convenient to have your most used sites a single click away on the new tab screen, and it still opens instantaneously, so I don't see any disadvantage. If there's something there you find distracting, you can remove it.

> If there's something there you find distracting, you can remove it.

Now you'll have me manage yet another thing, I just want stuff to require no management.

On being surprised, I suppose you're right, there are about as many ways of using a computer as there are users. It's easy to get lured into the feeling that anything you don't utilize yourself is weird and pointless. I never use the "home screen", nor do I really use bookmarks all that much. For bookmarks I get why they are there, I have maybe a hand full myself, but it's not something that I use enough to pay for, or even require, a bookmarking service. So seeing someone actively use one or even depend on it because a curiosity.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by rfoo »

broodbucket wrote: post #183
rfoo wrote: post #54

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> Firefox has always been the most versatile and secure way to browse the web. Currently, a Chrome full-chain is notably harder than a Firefox full-chain, with the former being at "state actor ITW" level, and the latter being at "your friends started a never-heard of consultancy and they decided to do the classical trick - pwning Firefox at Pwn2Own" level.

I don't think these are especially relevant to the threat models of average users. Security for most people means not getting malware from random sites and not having all their data given away, and noone is blowing an 0day sandbox escape on an average internet user. Adblocking extensions go a very long way in terms of keeping average users safe. If you're a potential target of sophisticated actors (of any level of so…

Indeed. Consider my view points biased cause my threat model does contain being popped by North Korean hackers. And I can't use the Internet without a functioning ad blocker so :(

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ekianjo »

nicman23 wrote: post #199
ekianjo wrote: post #56

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Firefox has dropped its own extensions to follow Chromes extension model for a long time now

the issue was more of a security / architecture than just following chrome. xul needed to change and webextensions was already open and tested. that said, i still miss a couple of xul extensions

> more of a security / architecture than just following chrome

They could have gone for something entirely different but instead they decided to blindly copy Chrome.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ekianjo »

Svip wrote: post #6
ekianjo wrote: post #3

Isnt Firefox trying to copy EXACTLY what Chrome is doing with extensions?

Firefox is also supporting Manifest V3, like Chrome, but Firefox is not removing support for Manifest V2, unlike Chrome.

How long is that going to last?

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by hospitalJail »

I'm like 50/50 on firefox(for linux).

Spotify doesnt work on it. I have far more issues rendering 5,000x5x000 px images on firefox than Chrome. Might not be an issue for most people, but when doing AI art and making 10x10 images, it is common.

After a side by side comparison, I use chrome for nearly everything. I weirdly use firefox for everything google services lol.

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