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Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I haven’t used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that’s my crowd.
vga@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
changed the search engine in Firefox
Which… takes maximum 1min to do.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 months ago
or default in any of the forks!
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Firefox’s main funding was was ? I think it still is
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
andybytes@programming.dev 2 months ago
Librewolf
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
same i use Librewolf nowadays
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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.
tfm@europe.pub 2 months ago
Ironically, I use incognito for that.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Brave is also Chromium.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Correct. But it is not the same.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Firefox is also a web browser.
Oh sorry, I thought we were making meaningless comparisons.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months 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?
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 months 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/
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months 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.