Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript

• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’s still owned by a homophobe that loves crypto, and is likely an antivaxxer.

  He was run out of Mozilla after only eleven days as CEO.

  the guy is an asshole, and hel very likely using brave money for evil shit.

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  • Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He’s also one of the inventors of Javascript as a browser feature.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      holy shit he’s more evil than i thought

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    • hellfire103@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, I’m aware of the irony.

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  • hellfire103@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As it happens, Brave started crashing for no apparent reason shortly after I posted this, so I’m back on Tor Browser. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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• moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The more things you block, the more unique and fingerprintable you become. Blocking JS altogether may mitigate some of that, but you can be fingerprinted even without JS.

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  • hellfire103@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know, and I’m still researching the best way to mitigate this. So far, I’ve come away with the impression that Tor Browser and Brave do the best jobs of minimising fingerprinting, otherwise I would have just disabled JS in Vanadium and called it a day.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe I’m misunderstanding but when the VPN makes a request for the page information the request isn’t forwarding the browser information is it? So wouldn’t most of that be mitigated there?

    As in the VPNs several making the request should show when they scrape that information, not the end user. Maybe I’m not understanding that though.

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    • moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A VPN doesn’t alter the requests your browser is making. It just masks your IP address.

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah if it’s sending the data and not searching from the server itself it would make it easier to track you having higher security almost. Because it would make your identifiers more unique if everyone else wasn’t… That’s food for thought

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