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Warning to all Brave Browser Users (infosec.exchange)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Warning to all Brave Browser Users

Blocking variations.brave.com which is used for A/B testing could potentially break Brave's functionalities. For me did Brave's "forgetful browsing" feature broke which seems to be disabled by default if you block this domain.

#brave #bravebrowser #privacy @privacy @privacyguides

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (43 children)

Anyoneserioius about privacy should not be using a chromium browser, and should definitely not be using brave.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I disagree. Firefox is fine, but saying chromium is spyware because its primarily maintained by google is like saying android is spyware.

Additionally chromium browsers are arguably more secure than Firefox, and has more advanced sand boxing. So much so that graphine OS used chromium instead of Firefox for their vanadium browser.

Only thing I agree with is not using brave.. Cause well.. They fishy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

android is spyware

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Android is not a single OS (?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is. Custom roms modify very little of the code and they are all based on aosp(it is open source but google controlls the changes). The whole point of aosp is to create the illusion of choice but if you really want to avoid using google spyware you have to give up on most apps or go to extreme lenghts to use an alternative. The grapheneos project is really cool and usefull but it only patches the inherent (intended)problems of android and doesnt provide a real solution.