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Brave is not a bad browser and nor is Firefox. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by darkguyman@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've seen a lot of people on the community say that brave is bad and has made quite a lot of questionable decisions. But Firefox itself also has made equally bad decisions. Mozilla has faced ongoing criticism regarding their default settings, their approach toward users, the high compensation of their CEO at over $3 million USD annually, and their investments in various companies that may not align directly with their core mission. Additionally, there have been instances where Firefox has implemented a temporary, one-time tracker that transmits certain data to Google during the initial installation on Windows or Mac systems. Brave has also undoubtedly made such decisions as well but the point here is that Both Firefox AND Brave have made questionable decisions and to specifically dunk on brave just because it's chromium is unfair in my opinion. That's all, thanks for reading my post :)

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[–] Melody@lemmy.one 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

False.

The ad attribution system was proposed but never implemented due to user outcry.

Some telemetry has been a part of Firefox for quite some time now; but it has always been privacy respecting and they self-host all of it. In general you can easily turn most, if not all of it off. The telemetry thing has been around since before they even started seriously fast-cadence releases. Some of my memories of this date back to the Firefox 34 days even. None of the telemetry collected is mandatory, and it can be shut off in preferences as well as through advanced config; which is what most forks do if they don't specifically rip the code out. You should read their source code sometime; it's quite interesting.

I will however agree that Brave is way more intrusive than any misstep made by Mozilla in developing Firefox.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, absolutely agree that the two browsers' actions don't even compare. But I wouldn't be defending FF either - for example, to my understanding, the PPA did make it into an actual update, and telemetry is not even all turned off by the basic toggles in the settings, with more being in about:config (part of the reason why hardening user.js exist).