The better option would be to not use spyware as an operating system.
Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
Submitted 21 hours ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
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Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 11 minutes ago
Do you consider any form of telemetry “spyware”?
Geodad@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Linux blocks that “feature” too…
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 10 minutes ago
What feature?? Recall? That’s Windows 11-specific and hasn’t even launched yet??
sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
In this thread something I see a lot on lemmy is happening. Maybe someone can give me a hint on how that happens. The post itself is 90% upvotes, while the comment section is really anti-Brave (for good reasons). Do most upvotes come from people scrolling through without looking at the comment section and those with an opinion on the topic dive into it?
Trihilis@ani.social 1 hour ago
The post itself is reasonable quality and informative so I find it upvote worthy. If a post is low quality or a shit post then I downvote.
To me the karma system is about quality. Not an “I agree/disagree” button.
For comments I only down vote obvious trolls, bigots/racism etc.
onnekas@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
I think you should not downvote a post you have a negative opinion about. If the post is worth to discuss then why should I not upvote the post and then say that I disagree in the comments. If we all down vote those posts nobody will see it (apart of those who sort by controversial) and there will discussion.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
If the software in question is bad, then I’d like to reduce visibility of the post while explaining why in the comments.
Brave is connected to the BAT pay-to-surf scam. Its CEO donates to homophobic causes.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 43 minutes ago
Most people never bother to read anything beyond the title of the post. Let alone click the link to the article.
Now, i don’t know how everyone sees up/down votes. But I always thought that content and comments that is relevant and promotes discussion is good. And comments that aren’t are bad.
Rather than a measure of others opinions.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 minutes ago
people just scroll around up voting headlines that they think sound good
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’ve noticed this on political posts too, among others and I’ve wondered the same thing.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
As does Linux.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 9 minutes ago
OK, you need to explain to me how tf does Linux block something that works only on Windows.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 minutes ago
No Windows, no such Windows “features”.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You use Linux? Here take this you’ve earned it 🍪
pirat@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
What if they always decline cookies? Or is this cookie one of those necessary ones?
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 2 hours ago
I still have literally thousands of clients that use Windows and want support… for these kinds of things. Firefox has recently stopped working on a few things and Brave works better for me right now. It’s not convenience when FF doesn’t work…
But I digress, Win 11 here and Brave. My choices, for lots of reasons. Lots of linux boxes as well though. Each to their own and all thatrozodru@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
yeah, no, i’m not using your shitty browser.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 56 minutes ago
It’s probably the best chromium browser out there
Firefox has done shit too
sadly we don’t have a lot of choice, but they’re one of the least worse
kadup@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
Firefox has done shit too
Firefox has injected my URLs with affiliate codes?
Dojan@pawb.social 33 minutes 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.
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
But it’s funded by an unrepentant homophobe! How can you pass on that?!
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
An unrepentant homophobe who accused people who dislike him for his homophobic views/actions as being closed-minded and bigoted for disliking him over it.
You can’t make this shit up
zewm@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Literally nothing will get me to use this crypto scam of a browser.
darkkite@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
I’ve used this for years and have never interacted with any crypto feature
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
That you know of
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
They kind of just ignore that the crypto feature is opt-in.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Not interacted doesnt mean it’s non-existant.
It exists and therefore it’s bad enough.alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
It’s okay, it’s never too late to switch.
blobchoice@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Unfortunately that would involve using the Brave browser, which is an antifeature in itself.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Can you elaborate? I don’t use it.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 54 minutes ago
They shit on it because just like Mozilla, they made some shit decision by making some shady partnerships, and because the CEO is transphobic/homophobic/can’t remember
Apart from the usual bullshit and antifeatures it has, it’s still a great browser choice, just like Firefox
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 9 hours ago
They haven’t blocked the windows feature, they’re using DRM to interfere with it. Microsoft could easily change how the DRM works any time they want, rendering all these hacks useless.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there’s literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
People, ynless they are at work, can choose to use Linux any time. I will personally assist if needed.
moe90@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
then people can complained it on Brave Github or their official forum and it will be fixed by their team
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 7 hours ago
My point was that brave’s solution, like Signal’s, is dependent on microsoft playing fair. If microsoft decides they don’t want brave, signal, or anyone else using DRM to interfere with their screen scraping chatbot, there is not going to be an easy way to fix it.
arararagi@ani.social 5 hours ago
Sometimes bad people do good things.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Running Linux would block this feature too.
Just reason sayin.
Pamasich@kbin.earth 40 minutes ago
Tbf, anything that isn't AI Windows blocks the feature. Including regular Windows.
People just need to not fall for the scam edition and they don't have to deal with this shit.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Switching to Linux made me like computers again. Switching to Hyprland made me love computers again.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Switching to TempleOS made me hear the voices again.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Same story here! Im in love with computing all over again because of it. Too bad many are tricked into thinking Microsoft ia the only option.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Running Linux would block this feature too.
Keep In mind that you can still be captured by this feature indirectly, Discord for example certainly doesn’t intend to do anything to hide your messages, they recently went public so in their eyes more tracking the better.
I’m thankful to have made a feature request to Element/Matrix asking for this exact thing.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
Discord… Still isn’t public?
They’re certainly talking about it but they haven’t announced a date yet.
Having said that, element and matrix are both more privacy respecting so I do agree with the recommendation in general.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Actually, Linux doesn’t block windows, it just isn’t windows.
Just reason saying.
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Actually it does! When youre installing, just delete the windows boot partition and your done!
timewarp@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Brace’s CEO is a homophobic Trump supporter. No thanks.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
That’s not even the worst thing about him. He also invented JavaScript.
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 27 minutes ago
That’s it, brave is getting uninstalled from my PC NOW.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 18 hours ago
He invented JavaScript, so definitely don’t use that either. For real. JavaScript sucks.
bier@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
I used to hate JS but barley had used it. Now I use it on a daily base and hate it even more.
nao@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
JS is difficult to avoid. Brave is easy to avoid, just use another browser.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 hours ago
Does he run/have power over JavaScript right now?
hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Ah, you beat me to it.
szymon@programming.dev 8 hours ago
He could be next husband of Ivanka Trump - I don’t care
If he provide good service for me - browser which fits my needs. I would even send him money every fay
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
“I’ll support fascism as long as it’s convenient for me”
technohippie@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
That’s the logic of as long as it benefits ME I don’t care and I support them no matter what they do. This same logic has been applied to all the shitty things done in history like slavery, war and so forth, and the reason the world is way it is: Greed.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren’t transphobic.
You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I’m not a fan of Mozilla either, but that’s irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.
Frellwit@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Brave is the least bad chromium browser
It’s pretty sleazy. Ungoogled Chromium or Vivaldi are probably less sleazy, if at all.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
I would not choose to use a product made by people I disagree with but leaving that aside:
Is it the least bad? Why not degoogled chrome? Or chromium? Even vivaldi seems like a better choice.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Actually, I consider Brave the best (or the least bed…) browser on the market. Period. The fact that it isn’t made by Mozilla is a plus for me.
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 15 hours ago
I need a better option then. What can yall suggest?
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 5 hours ago
Thorium.
scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours ago
Brave 🤮
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 53 minutes ago
I mean Mozilla’s Firefox is 🤮 too… there’s no perfect browser
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
“Feature”
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
A device that surreptitiously gathers information on a target is called a bug, not a feature.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 5 minutes ago
So, you’re saying that browsing history, in literally any browser on the market, is a bug not a feature?
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
More like malware
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
yup. how do people continue using Winblows :/
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
What a title. Made me think installing the browser blocked the feature machine-wide.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The sad thing is that you now have to protect yourself against the OS you are using. Feels a bit like in the movie TRON.
Almacca@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Can Recall not just be turned off?
Flukas88@feddit.it 12 hours ago
Very brave of them.
DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
People are still using Windows!?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
This isn’t unique to Brave.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You might say that they are being so very… Brave.
🎤 tap tap … is this thing on?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
funny thing is ban evaders(the ones that make hundreds of accounts for OF or links) use it for its anti-fingerprinting which is useful against reddit(temporarily)
MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 26 minutes ago
This is about the Smart App Control feature in Win11 that takes screenshots periodically to check for “malicious activity”. its basically a glorified keylogger built into the OS. Firefox should really follow suit and block this too.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 12 minutes ago
Holy shit, what a comment!
It’s not, it’s about Recall.
It doesn’t. Smar App Control does code validation and reputation check. Recall makes screenshots, OCR’s them and keeps them in an encrypted vault for the user to interact with.
It’s not, you can turn both off at any time.
It’s not, it fundamentally is NOT, because it doesn’t log any keystrokes. SAC isn’t even in the picture here, while Recall literally only makes screenshots, runs OCR and encrypts that.
Fuck me, where do you people get this bullshit from? It used to be “oh no, Microsoft will be making screenshots of your activity and sending them to their servers” not so long ago which, while still bullshit, was at least in the same ballpark as what Recall does.
Now you’re throwing SAC into the mix somehow?