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[eltoslightfoot]

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The Privacy Illusion: How Brave Browser Built Its Own Surveillance Machine

Brendan Eich's 2015 promise was seductive in its simplicity: a browser that blocks trackers, ads, and the entire apparatus of surveillance capitalism.

cambridgeanalytica.org

Sorry folks, you are being tracked by everything. Brave, Safari, Firefox. Even ungoogled Chromium will leak to a degree because Google wrote the lion's share of the codebase. If you trust them not to circumvent their promise of removing all the telemetry, then good for you, sounds like you still have faith in the system (or are monumentally naive).

Brave and DDG are not the bastion of security you think they are. Brave has it's own backdoor and DDG has contracts to provide Microsoft, Google and Yahoo some of your data. They are essentially just a wrapper for the bigger search engines.

This is interesting, but also Cambridge Analytica. Also, according to the artucle you just sent, Firefox is fine? So....

I will do a deeper response when I see what is out there as supporting evidence. But, wow, Cambridge Analytica.

 

[GregoryPeckEPA]

This is interesting, but also Cambridge Analytica. Also, according to the artucle you just sent, Firefox is fine? So....

I will do a deeper response when I see what is out there as supporting evidence. But, wow, Cambridge Analytica.

I don't think Firefox is fine (haven't seen anything damning yet, just a gut feeling). I think they just have a different way of tracking that has yet to surface to the public. They have some deep hooks into shaping your data between client and server, and myriad of settings that suck of telemetry on by default (bug reports, auto updates, relays, etc.). A user can harden it, but trying to organize all the snakes in the pit your in still means living with a bunch of snakes. I run a VPN but that has limitations in protecting browser leakage.

All these browsers have to make money somehow and in no way generate enough revenue through their "pro" features. I'll fight data harvesting to my last breath, but the way things are going, they'll be choking on my dead liver before they stop harvesting 🫠

BrowserLeaks — Browser Fingerprint & Privacy Test

Free browser fingerprint test with 35+ real-time checks. Detect WebRTC leaks, DNS leaks, canvas & WebGL fingerprinting, IP tracking, and bot detection.

browserleaks.us

Running the test above shows some leakage even though I'm ahead of the average user.

 

[maflynn]

Sorry folks, you are being tracked

Given that Cambridge Analytica was at the center point of a massive political and privacy violation with facebook, I take that article with a a bolder of salt.

They only provided claims, with no evidence and the CEO of Brave publically rejected. If this was true, then other reputable privacy sites would have backed Cambridge Analytica and in fact a number of of privacy sites continue to recommend brave because of its privacy policies.
Brave's own privacy policy contradicts the claims, and if this was true, lawyers would have been lining up to sue brave and what telemetry is collected is publicly documented.

Sorry folks but one sketchy article with no evidence from a disreputable company fails to provide evidence that brave is chrome (your words)

 

[Steve Adams]

I am going to start a website called theyareallwatchingyou.com. Post a bunch of nonsense and watch the tinfoil hatters go NUTS.....ha ha.

 

[GregoryPeckEPA]

I am going to start a website called theyareallwatchingyou.com. Post a bunch of nonsense and watch the tinfoil hatters go NUTS.....ha ha.

Make sure to tune into my website livingwithafalsesenseofsecurity.com. It's gonna be a blast!

 

[Steve Adams]

Hang on. I have a roll of reynolds foil I will send you as a sponsor.