Frost Wolf@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIf you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox nowwww.fastcompany.comexternal-linkmessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1351arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1346arrow-down1external-linkIf you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox nowwww.fastcompany.comFrost Wolf@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square117fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecodr9@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey use telemetry, trying to push Brave Rewards, Brave Wallet crypto stuff, Brave News. I find that a bit sneaky of a privacy focused browser.
minus-squareperezoso@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThanks for getting back to me. The rewards was why I signed up. Welp. Hadn’t used Firefox in ages. Stuck it back on asking with uBlock. Quite liking how it blocks pages from jumping to an app. I just need to work out how override it when I actually do occasionally want to follow a link to the playstore!
minus-squareEngywuck@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoFirefox does exactly the same: they have a lot of telemetry, they push their own services (pocket/vpn), they are in bed with Google and evil companies such as Amazon… What’s the difference?
What’s the sneak stuff in Brave?
They use telemetry, trying to push Brave Rewards, Brave Wallet crypto stuff, Brave News. I find that a bit sneaky of a privacy focused browser.
Thanks for getting back to me. The rewards was why I signed up. Welp.
Hadn’t used Firefox in ages. Stuck it back on asking with uBlock. Quite liking how it blocks pages from jumping to an app.
I just need to work out how override it when I actually do occasionally want to follow a link to the playstore!
Firefox does exactly the same: they have a lot of telemetry, they push their own services (pocket/vpn), they are in bed with Google and evil companies such as Amazon… What’s the difference?