• CreeperODeath@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I actually recently switched from brave to Firefox

    It’s going pretty nice so far Plus I love the customization open source stuff always has

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      1 year ago

      I thought brave ended up having privacy issues? Is this no longer the case? I just recently switched to ff after being a chrome user for so long (went from FF to chrome long ago)

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        1 year ago

        Brave is like Apple. Privacy is just a marketing tactic.

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            1 year ago

            People believe what they want.

            But, you are correct.

            Not necessarily because FF is bad, but because the internet and web standards are often stupid and not privacy friendly.

            Webrtc? Great! (But, by default, it leaks your real IP address even with a VPN). WebGL, web GPU, etc. Sketchy not privacy friendly standards

            But, again. At least FF allows obfuscation either by fingerprint blocking or masking or other config settings. But… it is tedious. And they change flags and flag names constantly.

            FF at least allows you to mod it so you can use it without leaks.

            What irks me is all the telemetry. And this new deal they call fog.

            And the impossible to get rid of add-ons I never asked for. No, I don’t want screenshots built in. Nor amazon, or google, or eBay, or Normandy or opt out studies

            After all the tweaks I make manually (arkenfox user.js is nice, too) it ends up well over a hundred settings to get what I want functionality and privacy wise.

            And, yet, it is still the absolute best of the browsers.

            (Tor, mull, and librefox as well)