Comment on When people recommend Brave browser.

JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As far as I remember, there is some browser with a feature of stripping tracking id from the URL, that is modification, but I find it good (if I can opt in, and if the feature is visible enough to know what to try if it doesn’t work)

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And you chose to do that or it was a feature that was advertised to you. Adding referral IDs to links you click so the browser company gets money is not comparable to that at all.

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mind you, I’m not arguing that was crappy, just that not any modification of links is bad

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I would argue that if you know your browser is stripping tracking info for links then the link you clicked on doesn’t have tracking information.

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