Yes, Google Chrome installs AI locally without consent automatically, Brave forces you to use their cloud services.
My new and improved privacy stack
Submitted 4 days ago by OppressedBread@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
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nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
OppressedBread@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Consent? What’s that, huh?
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Do you know what consent is?
- Yes
- Remind me in 3 days
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Can you tell me more about brave and what you mean?
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
When you launch Brave for the first time, it will push a lot of services like Brave News, Brave AI, their video call platform etc., all cloud services. Technically, they’re all open source, but I wouldn’t trust them. They have released a separate version, though, which keeps all this things disabled, which is paid on every platform except Linux builds.
Still, Brave is a whole lot better than Chrome, but I wouldn’t trust either.
jama211@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Everyone is so pressed about an on device model they’re not gonna even use. Like, yeah, it’s annoying, they should have told us, and it’s 4gb that could be taken off of my hard drive, but it’s a distraction from all the real issues out there that are much bigger that no one is complaining about.
poke@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You can do better than chrome with Edge. That way two companies are keeping your data secure instead of just one!
OppressedBread@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Yk what thank you, there’s always room for improvement
btsax@reddthat.com 4 days ago
always lol @ brave
ddplf@szmer.info 3 days ago
Been using LibreWolf browser for a short while now, pretty great if you get rid of some of the more radical features like full data cleansing on each shutdown.
And it’s based on Firefox, not Chromium, which is pretty sweet if you ask me
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
yeah
librewolf is based
theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What’s the issue with Signal? I haven’t heard of any actual vulnerabilities from their end, just standard phishing on the user side.
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There’s no issue
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Unless you’re the government, then the issue is just that it works
Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
They don’t invade your privacy or share data with third parties or even use your data to train AI. Yucky, no thanks
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I find this to be 100% accurate and every one should follow this guide to maximize their security
HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
whats wrong w Nordvpn
Soulphite@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Nothing. It’s rumors and hearsay. Probably the only negative is an alleged data breach, but that is not confirmed.
HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
…thanks for replying
Whats the rumours and hearsay?
trashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
You’re glowing
username_1@programming.dev 4 days ago
You’re stacked alright…
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Obligatory fuck brave
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t know much about Nord’s quality as a service, but I know that they really spearheaded the effort to spread misinformation on how Internet security works (claiming that a VPN would protect the information you enter into a website when HTTPS already does that) via YouTube ad reads. That alone is enough to make me swear off ever using them.
Chezus9247@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Urgh. I use Mullvad, it’s just 5€ per month and so far works great. I hope there’s nothing bad I don’t know about it. lol
zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Also they’re spending just wayyyyy too much on advertising for my taste.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m under the impression https can be defeated by a man-in-the-middle attack if you’re not paying attention. Haven’t looked into it recently to be sure if that’s still the case or a solved issue, though. But that was one reason to use a VPN while on untrusted wifi, supposedly.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Nord is a company that spends a lot of money on ads. They pay a lot of youtubers. In general, when a company uses most of their money on ads, they tend to get as much users as possible while not spending a lot of money on quality. I don’t trust those companies.
Friends of mine say it’s fine. But they don’t have anything else as reference. I can’t say for certain, but Nord isn’t the safest and most private VPN out there. Also some VPN providers log traffic, which can be confiscated with a court order. Again, I’m not sure if this is the case with Nord.
I myself use Proton, which is completely privacy based. Their company changed to become a foundation to ensure their privacy focus no matter who might be in power in the future. Their prices are fair, their services are good. They don’t spend money on ads, they spend all their effort and resources into making internet a better place.
As soon as companies are sponsors for many youtubers, I don’t trust them.
For instance, opera used to be an awesome browser made by a Norwegian team. They sold it to a Chinese company that provides predatory loans in poor African countries, completely destroying family’s lives. They promote the shit out the browser, while it also saves your data and uses your machine to farm crypto. Evil as fuck.
While the original creators of opera started a new browser which is how they believe it should be: private, your property, full of personalization, no bullshit. It’s called Vivaldi. But they don’t promote it like Opera does. Because they are honest and don’t want to waste resources while they can better use that for improving their product even more.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
NordVPN is good for getting around geoblocks, not so much for privacy
Comet79@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What’s wrong with Brave?
DiggyDiggyMole@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Additionally to the other two replies, Brave also injected referral IDs to an URI when you directly typed it in. Allegedly it was a mistake and they put it behind a toggle:
Also, per default the new tab page shows advertisements in the background. Firefox does also show ads on the new tab page in the link grid, so it’s a bad thing both do and you can disable it on both. But with an almost-full-window sized ad Brave managed to make that worse still.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Is Brave Legit? | Controversies and Features explained.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Aside from the homophobia, Brave also runs an ad network. I am skeptical about their privacy claims when they profit off the data to sell ads.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Essentially nothing. People on here tend to be alarmist when it comes to it, but when you actually dig into the negative claims, they are all either vastly overblown or misconstrued.
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 days ago
lol Brave respect from ML
best browser in the world right now
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you like fascism and crypto
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They can see all the sites you access and sell your data, if you need a cheap VPN that has actually proven that they keep no logs use mulvad.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not sure why you deleted this but I just found out Mullvad doesn’t support open VPN which is a deal breaker for me because I use a few different apps via docker with their traffic routed through hub.docker.com/r/qmcgaw/gluetun