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Mozilla officially opposes Web Enviroment Integrity API (DRM for web pages proposal from Google) (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this is what has recently turned people against them: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire-for-alleged-sale-of-copyrighted-data/491854/#:~:text=Brave%20is%20alleged%20to%20sell,transparency%20in%20the%20tech%20industry.

[–] mainframegremlin@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They also in the past got caught using affiliate links with crypto URLs which gave brave kickbacks. Scumbag shit. If you want actual hardened browsing forget brave or anything chromium based. Use librewolf which is a forked version of Firefox. Mull if you're on F-Droid.

Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

^^^ absolutely.