Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

• kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Firefox has done shit too

  Firefox has injected my URLs with affiliate codes?

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope, but it put a closed source Mr Robot plugin without asking anyone

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• Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just don’t use Chromium unless you for some reason absolutely have to. Mozilla is just another corporation, but they’re not exactly threatening to monopolise the internet. Google is, and using Chromium directly aids in their effort to do so.

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not that bad. Sure, having more choice is good, but it’s not as life threatening as you make it seem

    Using android and stock ROMs is a bigger problem

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think it’s a compounding issue, primarily of Google products just kind of being the “default.”

      Google pays to be the primary search engine in Firefox, on iOS, and sets themselves as the default on their operating systems. They, wherever possible also set their browser as default. Yes, Chromium is open source, but they have the ultimate final say, and no one seems to have the interest in forking it. This puts Google in a similar position that Microsoft was in in the 90s and early 00s, where they can essentially hijack the web and force their ideas through whether others want to or not.

      We saw this with Google forcing Manifest v3, all Chromium-based browsers essentially just had to follow suit. That was just Manifest v3 however, who’s to say what else they’ll do?

      Then there’s my tinfoil hat worry that Google essentially being the window to the web for so many people, on an OS, browser, and discoverability level is just overall a cause for worry. That’s not even considering their communications and media platforms.

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      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m pretty sure if Firefox decides to change their policy on something, most forks of firefox will have no choice but follow the same path

        afaik all firefox forks are really small, just like chromium forks

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• rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  sure there are choices. I don’t use ether. if you believe there are only 2 choices out there…man you have no idea.

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