Comment on Kagi is now partnering with Brave

• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That website is run by a Brave employee. And it skews its results in favor of any browser that happens to have an ad blocker.

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  • Samueru@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who is the brave employee that runs it? privacytest is actually a open source test that you can run in your browser and has its own repo.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you provide a source for the second sentence? After that, I can answer the first one.

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      • Samueru@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        github.com/privacytests/privacytests.org

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• Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good fingerprinting protection != good privacy.

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  • Samueru@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Alright what makes a browser good for privacy if fingerprinting does not count? (it does but I want to hear what you will say).

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    • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TL;DR: All chromium based browsers are shit. Switch to hardened firefox or librewolf

      I am not sure what you understand under fingerprinting (you literally can get the same fingerprinting protection by enabling the resistFingerprinting configuration in about:config in Firefox). Also fingerprinting protection, by ifself, isn’t enough to make a browser private. Plus I am not sure how anyone can even trust Brave’s browser when they are sketchy as fuck. Not only did they do creepy stuff like url injection, but also now have those weird ads and they are also into crypto which is not a good sign. I still fail to understand why people won’t appreciate Firefox browsers. The same functionality can be achieved if you spend literally like 5 minutes on it. Is it an issue with being lazy or just being not informed about it. Though I still do not recommend the stock firefox you can get from the official site. You’re better off installing something like Librewolf if you are someond that looks into “privacy” out of the box or hardened firefox with arkenfox’s user.js for the most privacy you probably can get without breaking literally every website you visit.

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      • Samueru@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        All chromium based browsers are shit. Switch to hardened firefox or librewolf

        I’ve used firefox for years, in fact I sitll have librewolf on my PC with a custom userChrome.css, but the browsing experience is only getting worse every year and mozilla only breaks userChrome with every new update.

        Plus I am not sure how anyone can even trust Brave’s browser when they are sketchy as fuck.

        They are open source lol

        The same functionality can be achieved if you spend literally like 5 minutes on it

        How do you sync your browser sessions without having to use an email? This is what mostly keeps me on brave.

        Also it really took me a while to get librewolf to block the cookie prompts from websites, because I had to go into the ublock origin settings and find the filter that blocks the cookie prompts, brave on the other hand does this automatically for you. As well as already having a built in dark mode, you don’t have to install 6 different extensions which is what I have on librewolf to get it to work.

        Also on linux firefox maps the alt+number keys to change tabs instead of using control+number keys, again on brave this comes by default, on firefox that is also another extension that needs to be added to fix that.

        In fact can you even change the background color of the new tab page in firefox? On brave it is super easy, it even lets you use an image, on librewolf I had to use a custom userContent.css for something so basic wtf.

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