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    1 year ago

    sauce please

    Alright, the guy created Javascript and also used to work on Firefox, was named exec then left cause of his views on same-sex unions. The whole scandal involved a donation he made that was against proposition 8 in the state of California in the United States. This law was regarding same-sex unions. He created Brave software after.

    (Off wikipedia)

    Good luck avoiding JavaScript.

    Maybe when Firefox gets better at hiding browser fingerprints I’ll go back to it.

    Why people try to limit rights I’ll never understand. He can fuck right off into the sun.


    That being said Brave is chromium, and there is tech in there that obfuscates your identity via browser fingerprint randomization, blocking webrtc on request, obfuscation of webrtc addresses, blocking of port scanning, and a bunch of other features. Ad and tracker blocking without breaking sites.It’s more than just “chrome with extensions” Chromium is the open source browser project used by Chrome. By your logic, Edge would also be “chrome with Microsoft extensions”.

    The fact is, for privacy people don’t have many options. Brave and Firefox are the only ones. Brave has the edge on Firefox because people develop webapps/pages for optimum chromium compatibility and it’s unfortunate AF that he CEO is a piece of shit.





  • See the issue with this and all biometrics is that it’s not something you have, ie : a card, a phone, it’s not something you know , like a passphrase, PIN it’s who you are. Because it’s your biometric data, it’s immutable. You’re putting the trust in guarding that data in a third party. Not only that there’s no way for you to not reveal where you shop and what you buy.

    You can’t change your palm, but you can change cards, phones etc.

    Using biometrics on a phone isn’t so bad, as it’s store on the phone itself.

    I personally wouldn’t want to link my shopping habits no matter how mundane to my biometric data.