I hear that both CloudFlare is privacy respectful and that it spies on site visitors (with their CDN). What’s your thoughts on this matter?

  • Qgpkje4rY5s@lemmy.ml
    12·
    3 years ago

    That’s a tad bit too optimistic.

    If Firefox were to truly die out, to the point where it makes no sense to continue funding it from a business perspective, I highly doubt it will continue to thrive as “the most private browser”.

    The fact that Google keeps funding Mozilla for the right of being the default search engine proves to two points. 1) Google doesn’t see Mozilla nor Firefox as a threat to the chromium revolution. 2) It makes more money profiting off Firefox users who are naïve enough to believe that installing the browser and using it out-of-the-box is all you need for privacy.

    To expand on point number two, the privacy communities are such a small niche, it has no relevancy in the grand scheme of things. If we keep directing non-techy friends and family to Firefox with no configuration, we are sending them off to a privacy nightmare. I’d love to be proven wrong, but I would much rather recommend Brave to non-techies around me, or Librewolf for the ones a tad bit more technologically knowledgeable rather than Firefox.

      • Qgpkje4rY5s@lemmy.ml
        11·
        3 years ago
        • Familiar interface for everyone. Since Chrome owns 70% of the market share, migrating to a privacy friendly clone won’t make the slightest difference since Brave runs on Chromium.
        • Built in ad-blocker and tracker blocker.
        • Built in Tor. (NOTE: This is not a replacement for the Tor browser, even Brave states this. This is purely an extra layer of privacy when needed.)
        • Excellent fingerprinting resistance. (Fingerprint.JS does not work on Brave).
        • New ad-system which rewards you for your attention.
        • It’s the browser that phones home the least out of the box.
        • No telemetry out of the box.
        • Since it runs on Chromium, it supports all Chrome extensions which do not exist on all other browsers.
        • Excellent security, since it is built on Chromium and de-googled patches get pushed out extremely fast, it is an overall secure browser.

        There’s probably more that I didn’t mention but these are the ones off the top of my head.

      • Qgpkje4rY5s@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        Where do I begin? You’re like a FUD machine.

        “It has broken Tor routing” I’m assuming this referes to the DNS leaks, which has been fixed already. (https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/22/in_brief_security/)

        “Brave Browser is funded by DoD” No, it is not. Just because the founders were angel investors, does not mean that it’s backdoored by DoD. You have no proof of this, these are baseless accusations.

        “Brave traffic detected with Cryptocompare despite BAT rewards disabled” This is because of their Crypto Wallets feature, even tho you don’t use Brave Rewards, you can still use Crypto Wallets which triggers this request. Here’s the thread explaining this, but I’m assuming doing proper research and spreading FUD about everything you don’t stand for is much easier, huh? https://teddit.net/r/brave_browser/comments/f3e27q/why_is_brave_constantly_connecting_to/

        “Brave also has a known history of whitelisting Facebook and Twitter trackers” Yet again, either you are unable to do research or you’re spreading FUD on purpose. These “trackers” make both Facebook and Twitter unusable. Since Brave is trying to be a usable browser for all, whilst still preserving user privacy, these “trackers” were whitelisted. Since then, Brave has improved their ad-block to get around this.

        “and has a crippled adblocker that does not work on Brave’s “acceptable” advertisements.” Brave blocks all advertisements by default. Unless you opt into Brave Rewards or turn off your shield, you should not see ads. There are no such thing as “acceptable” ads in Brave, unless you opt into Brave Rewards, that is bullshit and I would be shocked if you linked a source, which you obviously did not due to this being a completely made-up point.

        “Brave Browser hardcoded their crypto partner Binance referral links” This was a mistake on Brave’s part, note that only Binance redirected and no other referral link did, which were all implemented at the same time. This has been fixed and Brave has apologized. It is opt-in.

        “https://decrypt.co/31461/coinbase-wants-to-identify-bitcoin-users-for-dea-irs” I don’t know if you live under a rock but any crypto exchange with KYC tracks you, including Coinbase. The ability to trace Bitcoin transactions and users (who have given up their PII due to KYC) is not something new.

        I am not surprised that you seem to be banned or heavily downvoted (on what seems to be) the entire internet for spreading FUD. I have absolutely no interest in entertaining you for any longer. I highly advise you to read up on topics, do your own research and not spreading half of a story, when the other easily explainable half could be searched up in less than 20 seconds.