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This is not a good look for brave. (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] renzev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if they finally decide to turn full evil.

Yeah this is the brave experience. Free and open source product that behaves as advertised... from a company that acts like they're perpetually on the brink of fucking you over. Really hope this doesn't happen, brave's approach to antifingerprinting is actually quite interesting and completely different to what we see in the firefox-based hardened browsers.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I honestly really like what they do with the fingerprinting. But it's just a straight trade. Now amazon can't follow me directly, but Brave will certainly sell Amazon the info that I shopped at Home Depot looking for discontinued air filters :)

FF fingerprinting with UO and privacy badger are by no means bad, they are actually quite acceptable.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What does privacy badger do that isn't covered by UO? Is it worth it to install privacy badger if I already use a browser like librewolf that nukes all data every time it's restarted?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

It's EFF's tracker blocker. All they have is their name, so I have a lot of trust in them. I use it in concert with chrome and firefox based browsers. In FF it tightens up the tracking a bit. Doesn't eat much ram/time.