Brave Software has announced plans to deprecate the 'Strict' fingerprinting protection mode in its privacy-focused Brave Browser because it causes many sites to function incorrectly.
  • Flori@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Your friendly reminder that the Brave CEO is Mozillas old CEO, who was fired from Mozilla for being unapologetically homophobic.

    • Rose@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Worse than merely being homophobic, as he financially supported politicians and causes that worked to prevent equal rights.

    • Engywook@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      He wasn’t fired. He voluntarily left. And thus Mozilla is left with an incompetent CEO whose only aim is to increase her paycheck year after year, despite pathetic market share results for FF. Enjoy that.

      That said, nobody cares about your “friendly remainders”. We’re talking about software here, not politics.

      And, to stay on topic, yes, it happened to me that Strict FP broke some website, in particular those displaying a frame with a map or similar stuff. So I’ve resorted to use “standard” FP myself.

  • YeetPics@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    The scam company brave? The one that scams people? With their scam based crypto rewards that don’t pay out? THAT brave?

    • Samueru@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Firefox lacks a ton of features and its default settings have terrible fingerprinting protection to start.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Then customize it. Honestly they aren’t all that bad and by using Firefox you ate not supporting google.

        • Samueru@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I have done that, and it a horrible, it takes more work to make a useChrone.css on firefox than to setup a wm on linux lol

          You can also use any of the forks of chromium and not support google, what you said is like telling people not use grapheneos because it is a fork of android.

          • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            If we had a working alternative to Android as a whole, we would surely use it. But Linux on mobile works only in few devices and not flawlessly at all. But for the Chromium monopoly we have an actual alternative that works.

            • Samueru@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Linux on phones already work, just that phonecalls might not work sometimes, but if you are into privacy you might as well not use that anyway lol.

              So yeah, time to drop graphene and start using linux on phones, if you managed to get firefox to work you can use linux phones, sure some websites might not work on firefox (that is not fault of firefox, same way not all apps might work on linux) and you may need to do some coding to get some things to your liking (using custom.css files is like settings up a bunch of configs and scripts on linux) and you might need to add a bunch extensions to get basic features (like adding extensions to gnome lol).

    • Mikina@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been having a pretty good experience with Mullvad, however I don’t hear many people talking about it. I wonder why is that, IIRC it’s being developed with Tor Foundation, and is basically a Tor browser for clear web, and that sounds perfect. So far, I didn’t run into any issues, so is there a catch, or are they just not well enough known yet? Or, maybe people are turned away by their optional VPN?

  • Byter@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’d ask why they don’t make it optional (I’m not a Brave user) but it seems it was.

    Another issue is that Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave’s users, with the rest using the default setting, which is the Standard mode.

    This low percentage actually makes these users more vulnerable to fingerprinting despite them using the more aggressive blocker, because they constitute a discernible subset of users standing out from the rest.

    Given that, I’m inclined to agree with the decision to remove it. Pick your battles and live to fight another day.