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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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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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[–] NinjaTurtle@feddit.online 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Don't a lot of browsers by default have pings set up to track usage? Check the privacy section. There is usually a check box about sending daily pings to whatever company made the browser to track usage.

Not sure about the variations though

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Any browser does it, it is needed for several reasons, every browser need to know the amount of users it has to calculate it's market share. But statistical telemetries are not a privacy issue, it's like an employee which count the amount of cars and trucks on a highway, to know if it is needed to enlarge the highway or not. A browser need to know it for its capacity of servers and sync, if they offer it. Normally the telemetries includes in which OS is used the browser and in which country, all this is legit and not a privacy problem.

Bad only when it also include logs and profiling of user data and activity, as Chrome and EDGE do, and worse if this is sold to third parties. Decent browser don't do it.