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Isn't brave supposed to be "private"? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Saw this in my adguard home query logs.

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[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm a grown adult and can check for updates my own damn self. This phone-home telemetry in the guise of updating bullshit needs to stop

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Then use an actual private browser and not some techbro cryptobrowser.

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Name them.

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They have already been named in other comments. you’re a grownup, you could probably read them yourself.

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social -2 points 4 days ago

Only one other was named and its not sufficient because its not truly private. Please name them

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world -3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Then as a grown adult, you can make your chrome policy.json to disable the automatic updates.

And being an adult has nothing to do with it. If left to their own devices, most people will simply not update. Some people actively resist updates. Linux Mint had some statistics that showed that like half of their users were running severely out of date versions, so they had to change things.

[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait a minute. How did they collect those statistics?

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yahoo collected data and shared it with Linux Mint. Also, Mint analyzed downloads for its packages.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4030