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• LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Brave is also Chromium.

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  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Correct. But it is not the same.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Firefox is also a web browser.

    Oh sorry, I thought we were making meaningless comparisons.

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    • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So even though Brave is made on a Google product, Google doesn’t get the data? Is that what you’re saying? Because Google is such an honest company, sure they have no interest in the data of other browser instances made with their platform. Right?

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      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes. That is in fact what I’m saying. Brave has built in blockers for ads, trackers, and cookies. It’s default search engine is DDG instead of Google. Considering Firefox defaults to Google for searches, you’re likely giving more data to Google through Firefox than you would using Brave.

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok smartass

      reddit.com/…/brave_browser_scam_a_fake_privacy_br…

      community.brave.com/t/…/510414

      community.brave.com/t/…/600951

      tomsguide.com/…/brave-affiliate-links-autocomplet…

      zdnet.com/…/brave-browser-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

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      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I really don’t have the time, or the interest, to explain it to you; but all of the things you linked are either hyperbole, misinformation, or straight up fabrications; a very small amount of digging will show you why. But hey, I don’t work for Brave or care if anyone uses it or not. At the end of the day, use whatever browser you’re comfortable with.

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Next headline: Google promises to delete the Firefox private window data they were holding

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Firefox’s main funding was from Google being their default search engine. Which of course means anything searched in Google is recorded to the external IP address logs. So unless you are going directly to the website or changed the search engine in Firefox, yes Google was recording said information (or at least compiling the numbers for data analytics) to use for advertising purposes.

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    • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      changed the search engine in Firefox

      Which… takes maximum 1min to do.

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      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        or default in any of the forks!

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    • tfowinder@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Firefox’s main funding was was ? I think it still is

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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• andybytes@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Librewolf

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• Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  same i use Librewolf nowadays

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• SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use chrome once or twice a year, when I need to figure out if a website problem is my browser or the site.

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  • tfm@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ironically, I use incognito for that.

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