I see some people saying that Brave tracks your user activity; and thus is spyware.
Can someone please elaborate how this is true?
The manner in which Brave Rewards work, is by removing ads on the internet very effectively (including Youtube & those anime piracy streaming sites with the gorillion porn ads/popups); and instead giving you maybe 2 ads provided by Brave; not to be replaced and placed onto sites you browse; but by giving you sponsored wallpapers in the New Tab page (marked as such); 2-4 sponsored listings in their RSS feed (and marked as such); and/or x amount of desktop banner notifications for a product or service (it's customizable; ergo you can customize to get 1 notification per our, or sometimes even more than 4; but also zero; as it's opt-in. You can probably win $20 per month muting the banner notifications through a 3rd party service; while still having the 7 ads enabled (up to 7 per hour?) (More information found here https://brave.com/brave-ads/ad-formats
With all this said; the manner in which these ads collect data is through agregated anonymous crowd sourced analytics which is documented completely here (https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Randomized-Response-for-Private-Advertising-Analytics)
Here's a snippet
>In addition to client-side LDP, a reverse proxy (Cloudflare Spectrum) will blind our server from user IP addresses and establish unlinkability of the randomized reports.
Since this is all performed client-side; the most schizophrenic neocitiy blog enthusiasts have to latch on here is that Cloudflare is collaborating with Brendan Eich -- a known enemy of Silicon Valley -- in order to find out which type of crypto ads you enjoy. On top of that, he'll have to figure out if one of the 4 responses for each ad-click actually are yours; because believe it or not; Brave, client-side, sends 3 false reports to Brave as if it was coming from your end, simultaneously with the true report; and they are analogous to the true report
Cont
 Pablo Escobar Cocaina Shirt $22.99 |
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Pablo Escobar Cocaina Shirt $22.99 |
Cont;
>Before the answer leaves a user’s device the report will be scrambled by sending a random non-truthful answer roughly 75% of the time and sending the true answer only 1 in 4 times (the code is open source and can be inspected on GitHub).
Full code here: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/58d7380e3d78fc0f850ffc41e7f703a05221cc2d/components/p3a/brave_p2a_protocols.cc#L26
What this means is that Brave's ad model isn't really concerned with if someone is clicking the ad or not; their ad model entirely depends on hoping you ever even clicked the model at all. (As it's known in the advertising industry that a big part of what makes a succesful ad campaign is less in knowing the statistics of click-rates and more; knowing the ad will be a hit, in such a way they know that even for the 1% chance that you viewed said ad without clicking anything; you'll be compelled to look the product up on your own and perhaps become a customer; without giving a single click to the initial ad)
What this means is that Brave's business model isn't reliable; especially more so because of the constant scrutiny their browser has by being open source
>It already has been throroughly audited. Specifically one notable example I'm referring to is the study from Ivy League PhD cybersecurity researcher Doug Leith from Trinity College Dublin https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study-ranks-edges-default-privacy-settings-the-lowest-of-all-major-browsers/ (study here: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf)
Despite all this, I still see a lot of anons (as well just as many anons debating against this) ; that Brave is spyware and Brave tracks user activity. Is this what they were talking about? Or can they provide a compelling argument why an OPT-IN service collaborating with Cloudflare to obsucate IP requests (client-side) means that Brave is tracking your activity (when they are in fact not compromising anything)
Brave is exceptionally fast on low spec computer maybe because it removes adds?
You are stuck with Brave you literally cannot use any other browser. This one opens all the web pages and it gets rid of advertisements and it runs good in 3GHz CPU from the year 2011
Meanwhile, Vivaldi browser shows advertisements and is VERY sluggish
Edge would probably run good if Windows 10 would be used inplace of Linux. But Edge is much much worse than Brave, isnt it? In terms of spying.
>maybe because it removes adds?
>meanwhile Brave has it's own ads
>KEK
>muh crypto ads
All the evidence I need
trolling is not permitted outside /b/
Prove me wrong shill. There is no reason to use Brave over Chromium or Firefox
It has less tracking than chromium and Firefox is a piece of shit
>It has less tracking than chromium
It's just chromium with a skin and crypto ads
>Firefox is a piece of shit
And still it's the only browser with relevant extensions in <current year>
Just admit defeat, there is no point in installing le crypto browser if you care about anything relevant advertised about it
Brave removes Google shit at least, still annoying having to turn off all the crypto scams and I am looking for a new browser to switch to
But gecko is not usable, even basic functionality like video clickthrough is broken (so you can close a webm in chrome by clicking on it again, which is the intended behavior. In Firefox this is broken and pauses the webm instead)
>But gecko is not usable
Picrel
Yeah behavior is different, it takes 10 seconds to permanently fix it to behave to your liking.
>noooooo I rather get fricked into oblivion for eternity than spend less than 10 seconds going into about:config and fix it
Imagine. I'm so fricking tired of this shit being spammed day in and day out, if you don't understand computers and how to use them it's fine. Stop shilling crypto bullshit/how to fix it and monopolies on the web when you're willing to spend hour fixing your shit chrome knockoff instead of living the good life on gecko. Just look at all the extensions that have been completely blocked on chrome-bullshit because "muh ad dollarinos" and spend 10 minutes fixing Firefox (or whatever fork) to your liking.
Do tell which flag you're talking about
Which feature do you have a problem with?
If you're just gonna say "gib flag" then I don't have an answer.
The one that I explained in my above post
Which flag turns on the feature that makes IQfy x work as intended
If you just want some specific site bullshit, grease-monkey has 100000000 and one scripts for this. Stop inventing problems that doesn't exist.
Quick Google search found this solv
$0.addEventListener('click', ()=>console.log("hi"),true)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1412617
moron https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)#what-chromium-features-are-removed-for-privacysecurity-reasons
Fixed link
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)#services--features-we-disable-entirely
>muh privacy
Aight Black person, that must be why literally every privacy distro uses Chrome-bullshit right? Learn to do some basic shit without reading advertisements from crypto shills
You're stupid. They're stuck on gecko because it existed before chromium. Linux developers don't exactly evolve at light speed
Right, Microsoft devs are the gold standard 😉
Yet another one got filtered by simple fixes
Your response is a non sequitir. Nobody is talking about Microsoft, because internet explorer has never been open source, moron
IE has been dead of a while Black person, Edge is based on Chrome. Nice cope though
Edge is closed source. Chromium is not. Brave is not. How are you this obtuse
Fix that bug for me then and I'll switch
>It's just chromium with a skin and crypto ads
Brave is built using most of the patches from UG Chromium, along with their ad-blocker (based on uBO + fingerprint mitigation additions), optional Tor integration, IPFS support, and a slew of privacy-oriented features that vanilla Chromium does not have. It's the most usable Chromium fork OOTB.
There's no point arguing. After 130 replies; and how there's no rebuttal to OP's post; besides 1-2 IP switching trannies attempting to troll (keyword attempting); it's been confirmed that Mozilla troons are too far gone to save.
The weird thing is that, while I use Brave as the default on 2 of my 4 daily driver devices, I use Firefox as the default on one, and IceCat as the default on another. I think they're all great browsers, and feel the same way about Vivaldi, and even Falkon. I don't get why alternative web browsers breed so much fanboy-ism. Firefox (and its forks) should be promoted as the only alternative to Blink / Chromium hegemony, and browsers like Brave, UG Chromium, and Vivaldi should be promoted as more private alternatives to mainline Chrome / Chromium, and even worse forks thereof (like Opera and Edge).
Brave removes all Google tracking, it also has built in ad blocking functions that are constantly updated and can be updated manually. Its not perfect but it way better than Firefox/Chrome defaults. The argument can be made Iceraven/Cromite etc are equal but as far as mobile goes there literally is no better web browser.
Firefox is slow and glitchy.
Brave is Chromium with Google telemetry removed (yes, Chromium still has Google trackers) and ad blocker built in.
Waterfox is probably the fastest browser I’ve used, has nigh unlimited extension compatibility and isn’t a crypto Black personfest like brave
le shill lion
firefox + ublock origin is all you will ever need, 15+ years and counting
>le Edge is closed sourced
Picrel. Black person are you even trying? Edge and Brave is basically the same fricking thing with some modifications. Stop and read up on some basic browser shit ffs, you're making yourself look like a moron in front of all these people.
>Do my work for me
No, simple as. Learn to use a browser.
Based. Add pihole and Suricata for extra basedness.
Edge is closed source. Brave is not. Seethe.
>Based
Not based. The only gecko browser worth using is Mullvad Browser (excluding Tor) Why? Mullvad is collaborating with the Tor Project to make a private browser fit for surface web browsing. You want to know another thing? There are also multiple Tor contributors working on Brave.
Buy an ad, Blackrock.
Blackrock?
>Not based. The only gecko browser worth using is Mullvad Browser (excluding Tor)
See picrel
imagine trusting glowBlack folk. Mullvad was compromised a while a go and it's basically been publicly admitted. Run your own shit on your own servers and endpoints or you're a part of the glownet. And yes, the modifications are closed source, the adware isn't, great point. I could not give a frick about Tor since it's been fricked by glowies for a while and if you wanna dispute that, look at all the sites shut down by them and look at the leaks about how they've already fricked the whole onion network (except for a handful of site that actually know what they are doing). Paid NSA shills needs to be beheaded by their children.
>Tor is compromised
Well there you go, ladies and gents; the relentless false-flag "white hat" firefox shill has removed xir's mask.
>they've already fricked the whole onion network
Completely false. 99% of sites are taken down because of poor opsec.
Link rel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CD_Nl3iwhE&t=12s
>Well there you go bla bla bla
just use the hecking based chrome NSA free browsers
>Completely false. 99% of sites are taken down because of poor opsec.
Literally pointed this out, are you fricking moronic or something? "Let me point out the thing previous pointed out to disprove him" actual moron. I hope you and the rest of the glow Black folk get decapitated by your children.
Based in the know:er
>just use the hecking based chrome NSA free browsers
Hey man, Brave is open source. By all means put the thread to rest and prove OP how Brave is the crypto miner/ NSA spyware you keep shitting your diaper about.
https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/cbfc3c2abceabf14e3528a558b7e0aa7378bb1c1/components/brave_ads
Anyways, I hope to see you continue omitting proof that Tor is compromised.
>muh timing attacks
Most dark web hosts have a myriad of safeguards, in such a way that even if you get the 1st nost and exit note; IP before routing through Tor, you're going to end up at a proxy, also most likely behind a fake ISP account using fake/stolen credentials; hosted somewhere away from where the base of operations is in. I can keep describing the further safeguards, but I won't because I'm posting from a personal device.
>Adshill saying just audit the code
Black person audit FF code and prove my originality point wrong before you ask me to do the same
>I hope to see you continue omitting proof that Tor is compromised
I bet that's why they keep getting shut down. Like I said from before, my argument wasn't that the onion network itself was fricked but the people operating on it are morons and can't do opsec, stop misconstruing arguments cause mad. Keep using the totally based, non-compromised, shillware.
Stop caring, simple as. If you think Chrome botnets are the solution you're as delusional as the group you think I belong to.
>Black person audit FF code
Don't need to. Even if their proprietary extensions don't do anything now, who's to say they're cooking up something soon?
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addons/firefox-b-tch-to-boss-extension/
>, stop misconstruing arguments cause mad
Keep pushing goal pusts, pseud trog.
> If you think Chrome botnets are the solution
Didn't say that, homosexual. See
and
(me)
who's to say they're not cooking up something soon*
fixed
a lil tired rn.
You mean the the same as Manifest 3.0? Sorry I'm on Gecko so I can just remove it in 10 seconds, keep cooping with crypto shit that support the exact same shit
>
>Some ads are good
Kys
>Name me one useful extension which isn't found on chromium-based browsers and doesn't have a chromium equivalent.
https://coincidencedetector.com/
Whooops but my communism is correct
Brave isnt affected by MV3.
>>
>implying a typo means you won the argument
>Kys
NTA but he never said that. You have to be ESL there's no other way someone is this moronic.
>coincidencedetector
>no source code
Kys.
>>Some ads are good
There is not one single thing in my post that remotely implies that, you stupid Black person.
>https://coincidencedetector.com/
Are you a chatbot or merely as stupid as one?
>get told for being a shill
>tell others to buy an ad
What is this moronic cope? How does sucking so many wieners degrades your braind like that?
I'm not using Firefox.
Jetstream, Motionmark, Speedometer. And Phoronix, who pushes out the best benchmarks in the industry ruled Firefox as shit.
I willingly provided you with sauce, your lame memepasta at the end had nothing to do with it. I drink troony tears recreationally.
>All three browsers debloated through settings with all security enabled, with all three having uBO all english filter lists enabled. Benchmarks used were: Jetstream, Motionmark, Speedometer. Higher number is better.
>Chrome: 181 / 1211 / 203
>Brave: 180 / 1153 / 221
>Firefox: 122 / 672 / 163
If you're going to be a Gecko tard, at least shill Mullvad, at least they have the rep.
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html
The Tor Project investigating ways to harden the Tor Browser; in particular, they conclude that Firefox is too poorly written for them to apply PaX's Reuse Attack Protector (in comparison, RAP can be applied to Chromium with relatively little effort):
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/wikis/Hardening
Bizarre finances of Mozilla
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-o
Recently adding ads to the URL bar
https://www.techradar.com/news/ads-have-even-invaded-the-firefox-url-bar-now
EME DRM botnet downloaded by default
Pocket (proprietary service, ads, promoted content)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Pocket#History
>The integration was controversial, as users displayed concerns for the direct integration of a proprietary service into an open source application, and that it could not be completely disabled without editing advanced settings, unlike third-party extensions.
Automatically installing Mr. Robot adware through experimental extensions program
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mozilla-backpedals-after-mr-robot-firefox-misstep/
Cont;
Cont;
Based Catholic Brendan Eich, fired from Firefox, his product as cofounder, became too based; and so he made Brave.
But let's keep talking about Firefox:
Promotes Cloudflare DNS MitM botnet
https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml
Inferior fingerprinting protection and other leaks
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1372288
Breaking compatibility for old extensions
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/08/21/timeline-for-disabling-legacy-firefox-add-ons/
Breaking add-on certificate signing, disabling NoScript on Tor browser and threatening millions of users
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/05/firefox-extensions-are-broken-heres-what-to-do/
Breaking css UI customization features
Breaking user modifiable options (most recent compact mode)
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/07/mozilla-decides-to-hide-compact-mode-in-firefox-for-new-users-but-keep-it-for-existing-ones/
Removing about:config sorting and filtering, completely removed on Android
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/31/firefoxs-new-aboutconfig-page/
Poor security, even with Fission they are years behind (especially on Android)
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html
Overall performance sucks and has not improved (loses in 90% of benchmarks)
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks
>muh syntethic benchs
kys
cope
Not using your rainbow ware homosexual
I accept your concession
>rainbow ware
???
firefox is fricking garbage and a decade behind
buy an ad lion shill
Based. Brave is good. long sock blue hairs seething
I know Brave still has a boatload of trackers but I still use it because it's still less than anything I'd get from anything else that's Chromium. People usually say that it's still bad because Chromium can't be good but I don't say they're wrong, I'm just making a compromise. Some of them can be extreme, like Linux Sheikh and Anton La Vey cosplayer Luke Smith, but he's against anything Google and I really can't separate myself from Google or Microsoft because of Uni and work.
I also like Firefox and used it for the longest but there's more content catered to Chromium.
The only times Brave ever gave up on me were Chinese online games which probably had malicious trackers connected to the CCP so I can only blame myself. It's good enough for me and if I were to stop using it, it'd be either because there's a better product or I'd want to distance myself from the Internet and outside world (save for Korean basket weaving forums like this one) altogether
Curious about the trackers you're talking about. Are you sure you configured Brave correctly? I know there's some benchmarks where Brave can be considered "unique" because of how it randomizes a user ID per launched session; but that's part of the opsec you have to accomodate, compared to Mullvad's which gives you the same user string per session (on the trade off you shouldn't install any extensions or change settings lest you compromise the point of blending in with the other Mullvad user agent sessions)
I would block 3rd party cookies, set shields to aggresive, set fingerprint blocking to Strict (may break some sites), and disable the whitelisted social media trackers (which is right below the shield setting toggles) which is for google sign-in prompts, twitter embeds, and facebook sign in prompts; disabling said toggles would disable these "whitelisted" trackers which people complain about not knowing you could easily "toggle" it.
IMO you shouldn't judge a browser by its defaults. Firefox cooks love to rave about how even though its defaults are cancer, you can tweak it; likewise you can on Brave; as well as add it different filter lists.
I would recommend you add this ublock filter list which ublock origin use.
Just paste this link into your content filtering settings
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/master/filters/filters.txt
Here’s more filters if you’re interested:
https://pastebin.com/sBAqsxVy
Kys, moron.
Gays living rent free is fricking hilarious, did they touch you as a kid?
I'm not using a browsers whose developers wants me and my family raped, piked up the ass, and killed; right before bundling in a proprietary extension (remember Pocket?) meant to track my IQfy posts and reporting them to the US federal government such as DARPA.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
Part of why I use Brave over Mullvad Browser is philosophical; as I like seeing you freaks seethe over the fact that Firefox has losts millions of users while Brave has an all-time high user base of at least 65 million users (and just those with default anonymous analytics turned on)
Kys homosexual.
I have never, ever seen any fricking ads on firefox, as simple as untick a fricking box on install or automatically use an script to install with all the settings already unchecked.
What moron doesn't configure its software?
why not use a fork of firefox like LibreWolf, or IceCat?
See https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html
is sometimes recommended as a supposedly more secure browser because of its parent company's privacy practices. This article explains why this notion is not true and enumerates a number of security weaknesses in Firefox's security model when compared to Chromium. In particular, it covers the less granular process model, weaker sandboxing and lack of modern exploit mitigations. It is important to decouple privacy from security — this article does not attempt to compare the privacy practices of each browser but rather their resistance to exploitation.
>inb4 ungoogled chromium
see https://qua3k.github.io/ungoogled/
>The ungoogled-chromium project is an often recommended browser to people seeking a private Chromium-based browser. However, many people are unaware that their patches often regress the privacy/security rather than improve it.
(me)
I'm like a year away from using Mullvad Browser though. It's catching up pretty quick to Brave, I give it a year. I'd probably use both though. One for work, and one for personal reasons. I'd probably end up using Brave for personal shit just to ensure websites work (even though I do enable settings that may break shit, like stricter fingerprinting resistance, and forced 3rd party cookie removal)
You were doing so good and then you gone and do fricked yourself with adware and glowBlack person shit
Kind of sucks when the whole of Blackrock/Vanguard/Silicon Valley black list your company for being anti-gay marriage. moron. All your moronic projects like Floorp and Firefox all polish oil prince wiener for funding.
Yea I tuned it up a bit but I still didn't set those options so random websites I might go to wouldn't cease to work. I do use some really malicious websites like Facebook.
I don't remember the most aggressive options being there a while ago so it might be then that people shilled against Brave, but there's just no being safe using Google/Twitter/M*ta
The only browser with using https://github.com/vlang/vox-browser
blah blah blah
still going to use Firefox
We've been on brave for years bro. Debunking misinfo for the 9000th time doesn't change anything.
these trannies are buggin bro
disinfo*
FTFY
Don't care, still won't use Chromium
Lucky for you, this isn't a shill thread. It's a "prove Brave is a crypto miner / NSA spyware" and after 60 replies; nobody who spams the rhetoric that it is; has been able to prove so.
Which ends up confirming that mozilla troons make shit up about other browsers because they're scared of losing mozilla.
>not realizing that mozilla will never go anywhere
But autists will be autists.
Google needs and pays Mozilla in order to dodge a monopoly lawsuit.
Let this thread be screencapped and shown whenever someone says Brave is a crypto miner/ NSA spyware.
There are multiple such screencaps already, "just one more piece of evidence" isn't gonna do anything.
i havent seen them really, care to share them?
pls
There does seem to be a number of deranged homosexuals on the internet that compulsively lie about brave because they hate whats his face.
there was a time when they changed reflinks without asking, this alone stopped me from ever using brave again. dont care what they're doing today.
what browser do you use now?
>You are like a boomer who thinks Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK.
How? Even the anon I was arguing with admitted I was right; in that it was all about opsec and less about timing attacks.
>Vivaldi
redpill me on vivaldis tab management.
Vivaldi has the ability to sleep tabs out of the box, it has a tree-style or stack tab option, vertical tabs if you're into that, whole windows can be stashed and saved for later, windows can be split arbitrarily so that you can look at two or more different pages side by side in the same window, and those pop out panels (that always annoyed the frick out of me on opera) actually behave sensibly and have real use on vivaldi. I haven't used it that much because I'm still pruning my brave tabs but it all seems like stuff I would make use of. The one big complaint I have is that closing tabs refocuses existing tabs in an order that makes no sense to me. Might be a flag to change that behavior but for now it throws me for a loop.
might want to ask in a vivaldi community forum about that last part. ill try out vivaldi, seems interesting since its open source, or at least most of it is.
yeah that anons a real tard
I ain't reading all that shit, never using a chrome fork with a ponzi crypto built on top.
Shill your bullshit somewhere else
see
maybe. task manager says it performs the same.
> Who the frick knows where that money went in the end
it goes back into the BAT pool, but creators can still claim it.
anyways its been 74 replies; and yet still no proof brave is a crypto miner and NSA spyware tool
81 replies now
this is fun
still waiting, mozilla sisters.
is it just me or is the performance a lot worse on recent version?
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caught-adding-its-own-referral-codes-to-some-cryptcurrency-trading-sites/
This and creating "donation" pages for content creators without their consent too. Who the frick knows where that money went in the end
meant to reply to u too, see
Might be true but I've never touched brave crypto shit with a hundred foot pole despite using it as my daily driver for years. I use it because it's a just werks performant browser with good defaults; the crypto garbage is just bullshit I ignore.
For years, I have legitimately never seen a single post on IQfy that was actually accurate when complaining about brave privacy concerns.
You ask them why, and they just ramble on about Chromium, as if that's the same in itself as "Google Chrome". I don't think they actually understand what they are saying. It's always just nebulous finger pointing, they never explain the specific reasons.
It's way worse on Reddit. It's like talking to someone routing English through a Spanish translator to a Chinese translator to a Russian transltator back to their Nigerian dialect translation they would understand; and then they type their response in said dialect, and translate it all in reverse, through every single hop as mentioned; only to end up copy pasting the end result in English; completely tarnished and unrelated to your main point.
And then they ape out when you call them ESL or moronic.
>. It's like talking to someone routing YOUR English through a Spanish translator to a Chinese translator to a Russian transltator back to their Nigerian dialect translation they would understand;
**
fixed
hope it makes sense. I swear the Babel arc ruined earth.
Cool, then keep using Brave and I'll keep using Firefox. Have a good day.
See
Cool, then keep using Brave and I'll keep using Firefox. Have a good day.
I still don't know what Brave offers over Firefox. Their search sucks too and they advertise no filtering results but that just means I have to dig through 3 pages of street shitter spam pages to find what I'm looking for.
Interesting how there wasn't any brave shilling in weeks and now it's back at full force. was the new astroturfing budget just approved?
buy an ad.
I quite actually look like that and say those things. bonus: am schizophrenic
>privacy browser
>sells data to 3rd parties
How cucked do you have to be to accept ANY ads or intrusive features at all? homie if you installed Brave and know something even remotely about cyber security, all sorts of alarm bells should go off immediately. Also fricking tokens? acceptable ads? built-in features? what the frick are IT zoomers learning in schools today to shill this honeypot so hard?
ok so what is the real alternative? i came to this thread to find actual advice not Black person monkey shit slinging about whos browser is more zogged. is there actually anything worth downloading that is lightweight and useful and not piss ugly?
brave unironically. they reworked their UI icons and it looks nice
peep pic rel
yes im using brave right now but it is slow on my toaster machine and it looks like chrome which looks like piss. i was hoping someone would let me in on some tightly held secret about a special browser that only the most leet hackers know about but i guess im wrong and you are all homosexuals.
perhaps youd like mullvad browser then. but be warned; the whole speciality of mullvad browser (also made by Tor Project); is that you blend in with other people using the default settings of mullvad (no joke this is their intention on their website) and they discourage the downloading of extensions; and they discourage you change any setting at all. its supposed to mirror tor's "blend in" security model.
homosexuals anon. see this posts pic rel see
i will give it a try even though the website looks so incredibly gay. i am so close to never using a computer again.
librewolf or waterfox for ff
ungoogled or thorium for chromium.
or just hope Brendan has an agreement with a 3rd party that isn't then going to sell on your data to someone who could use it against you.
>or just hope Brendan has an agreement with a 3rd party that isn't then going to sell on your data to someone who could use it against you.
That's exactly the thing, WHAT DATA. Black person, did you even read the fricking first OP 2 posts?
See
Suck it up and read every word.
TLDR; There's literally nothing Brendan can collect from you except that your computer is fetching ads, WHICH BY THE WAY AREN'T EVEN PERSONALIZED. Everyone gets the same fricking ads, if you opt in to Rewards.
>Black person, did you even read the fricking first OP 2 posts?
lot's of fud that doesn't address
>brave collects, collates & sells your data
>What's most likely IMO is these homosexuals including
(You) , are upset about chromium forks taking Mozilla's userbase.
what's strange about your insinuation is that you're the 1 mentioning ff not me and you assume I'm a poof because you're a shill getting paid by brave? That's just darvo.
FUD? Wtf did you read, homie?
IDK what darvo means dumb zoomer scum.
gud digits, shit post. Improve your adhom c**t.
also..
>IDK what darvo means dumb zoomer scum.
I'm guessing Merkin education system?
still no proof brave collects ur identifiable data or is a crypto miner, chode eater.
>chode eater.
not really an improvement m8.
no proof? cool. ur dismissed, labia mouth.
>labia mouth.
that's... slightly interesting if nothing else.
Do you mean I've got a c**t for a mouth or that I give a lot of cunnilingus? Might have been a bit clearer (and breddy gud homophone) if you'd said
>labia lips
shut up wienerbreath.
now you're just going back to basics. Pity - I though we might have been getting somewhere vaguely interdasting.
Shut up you annoying stupid bawd. holy shit.
>brave collects, collates & sells your data
Why is anyone obligated to address your playground rumors?
>I heard if you push the truck by the SS Anne with Strength you get Mew!
A large portion of the time when I bring the keyboard up on brave mobile, it crashes.
in adblock literally serve the users ads
traffic to weird domains for no reason
>Can someone please elaborate?
anon either they open source the whole system so people can compile and package this themselves or its a potentially and probably definitely a spyware
the whole system is open source you gorilla Black person nonce. do you want physical access to cloudflares servers? can you have it? this is why you simply dont enable brave rewards in the first place if you're autistic about this shit, monkey.
best gecko browser: mullvad browser (if ur autistic about chromium and maybe a little bit too moronic about privacy considering mullvad and brave are comparable since they both have Tor devs working on them)
best chromium browser: brave (if you care about speed, extensions, and privacy as a general non-moron who doesnt obsess over hidden cameras in their bedroom despite not having talked to anybody for years)
>>the whole system is open source
go to github and see that everything is importation modules there is literally no code in this
u r actually moronic
you think?
so where is the code Black person
why there is only one python script for a browser?
you compile the UI components and the rest is downloaded from the repository, fricking moron lamo
read the thread, chimp brain.
>READ THE THREAD I ALREADY ANSWER IT, NO I WON'T REDIRECT YOU THIS IS ALREADY BEING ANSWERED MULTIPLE TIMES!
kys moron
here u go my little Black friend
https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/brave/brave-browser
https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/brave/brave-core
also see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/12293
and see pic rel
to show the source code
>reply with irrelevant shit
>still no source code
this is really simple shithead.
if the text instruction of the software are not available this is not open source, i don't care if 1% of them are available on github this is not what open source mean
you have to be a gpt bot theres no way someone is THIS moronic
why you don't have the source code to the "open source" browser Black person?
here just look at curl
https://github.com/curl/curl
this is the most basic browser utility there is, see the difference?
there is actual CODE in there that you can MODIFY, like you do in OPENSOURCE.
brave is not open source if you compile a few components and 99% of the program are downloaded as precompiled binary WITH A FRICKING NPM, its huge BS to claim that its open source
look up what brave-core is. god i hate autists.
its chromium setup moron
One of the issues with advertising as a privacy browser is that you extract scrutiny from schizos who want to ackchully you over trivial shit. I use Brave btw.
Friendly reminder that even Mozilla's devs acknowledge Brave as the ultimate and most secure Chromium-based browser in the market.
Brave is so fricking good, that the only criticism they have against it, is >muh crypto (that you can disable in the settings, forever).
That and it’s a botnet
/b/ is thata way.
>>>/b/
i really feel sorry for you that you work as a straw company shill, the peak of your lives huh?
hurr
>muh botnet
*Citation needed*
But who cares, right? It's not about the truth, it's about tarnishing the name of one of the most consumer-friendly privacy-oriented browsers in the market.
Some cyber-security experts have published papers praising Brave for being one of the most secure browsers right now (providing proof, tests, packets, connection logs, etc.)
But you won't ever acknowledge this, you'll still make shit up and say "SAAARS DO THE NEEDFUL" to deflect, and stay in a browser (Firefox) that's 2 years behind the competition.
good marning sirs
indians use chrome. brendan is white and catholic; which poos like yourself hate.
I use the fastest Brave browser sirs, strong and majesty like the national lion symbol ahsoka of India
see >98988285
This right here is all I need to digging know to start the frick away from that israeli piece of shit browser
>This right here is all I need to fricking know to stay the frick away from that israeli piece of shit browser
FTFY
https://community.brave.com/t/brave-rewards-difficulties-in-india/471293
NOOOO SIRS DO NOT REDEEM THE BAT
DO NOT REDEEM
MADARAKROM
yes thank you sirs for the strongest india crypto and the fast brave browser partnership
the sun rises needfully on this good morning partnership, sirs 🙂
>crypto browser makes business with hundreds of crypto exchanges throughout the world to deliver relevant crypto exchange ads to relevant regions
>this is bad mkay?
-10/10 bait.
I love the brave search sirs
find many hot naked yoni pictures
brave search is the only search engine with its own index, with an onion reroute; that lets you search "Black person" memes in the images and video tab. frick off Black person
>remove ads
>put your own ads instead
Would sue, would not use.
Thank you good sirs please continue using Brave
>dalitBlack folk still seething over Brahmin Brave
china shills forever mad that they're being surpassed
Never using Firefox in my life again; and I have all my friends download Brave to BTFO Mozilla.
>Firecuck transbians resorted back to calling everybody a streetshitter, because they don't have any arguments grounded in reality
I accept your concession.
Enjoy your false sense of security, and using a browser made by a mentally ill individual that lives in his mom's basement.
its literally just one obsessed anon posting over and over the same shit.
You have to understand this: no one in their right mind would defend ANY browser as much as brave bots defends theirs. This is like the cherry on top of this whole honeypot shit pile.
Brave is an interesting browser without the crypto though. We've had plenty of attempts to talk about the interesting changes Brave brings to the table (that other browsers don't) such as
>fingerprint RANDOMIZER (Which Ublock Origin does not offer. The randomizer makes websites think you're on Firefox, or Chrome, or even Safari. Meaning Brave users are helping fight Chromium's market-share by fudging their data)
>native deAMPing
>native Wayback Machine support
>native Tor integration with Bridge support
>Private Search engine with image/video/regex support. it comes with a Tor Onion link (https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4537609459469-List-of-Brave-Onion-Addresses)
>off-the-record browsing (RAM cache)
>bounce tracking protections
>query parameter filtering protections
>stricter DOM state partitioning (sandboxing)
>network-state partitioning
>farbling
>debouncing
>unlinkable bouncing
>URL tracker removal
>pool-party attack prevention
>ephemeral third party stora
>Made by the creators of Firefox also employing Tor Project contributors
>A #1 spot in verifiable audits conducted by Ivy League PhD grads that test for privacy out of the box (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study-ranks-edges-default-privacy-settings-the-lowest-of-all-major-browsers/
The open source study attaches methodology so readers can verify it https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf)
None of the above ever gets sufficient discussion most threads because any brave thread gets flooded with brain dead Black folk like you spamming the same mundane jeet copypasta over and over.
I don't even care about Brave that much, I use it as my backup browser on mobile for whatever sites don't work on Mull
but it's hilarious seeing this one dude get so worked up over this shit
it's clearly all a coordinated effort by two or three people, nobody would dare make fun of his sacred cow browser on IQfy, everyone who disagrees with him is clearly the same guy and a troony and a projecting indian and he is God's strongest soldier against the evil firetroony conspiracy
>Anon A says Mozilla troonyfox is a crypto miner / keylogger
>50 Anons give him (You)s asking for proof
>Because is this bad.
>Anon A says Brave, made a creator of Firefox, is a crypto miner/ keylogger
>Anons dispute this
>Disputing the original claim is bad, mkay?
>I just want to know why you do it
I literally made this thread for one sole purpose which I've emphasized upon almost 8 times in a row. There's 152 replies and so far there's been a single anon willing to come forth and prove the "crypto miner/keylogger" claims you gorilla Black folk love to push any time Brave is mentioned.
Do you not see the nuance between this thread and a thread starting with "Use brave!" I literally said multiple times, too, that Mullvad is a perfectly viable browser; I literally suggested an anon use Mullvad see
What I want to know is if Brave is so bad; why do homosexuals like yourself feel the need to make up things about it? Do you not see how when people realize the blatant lies about Brave; they'll only be compelled to check out Brave? It's the exact phenomenon you see when x government bans y product; it only draws attention to it.
Nobody is saying Firefox needs to die. But Mozilla does need to; and Brave is fixing that. Once Mozilla dies; the gecko browsers will improve substantially. Using Brave won't kill Firefox; and neither does it give Google money because it literally blocks Google Adsense.
man you are in deep. you cant even think outside of the framework of spamming brave to give a straight answer. oh well, good luck with the spam. hope you win against the lying trannies or whatever and can wrap this up in the next few years
Nobody is spamming Brave. You are making a bunch of nonsensical claims about a viable browser and you get upset when people rebuke said claim. This is a /technology/ board; you don't make x false claim and then expect people to laugh with you. You are here to troll; and then get upset when you get autistic Akshually answers; which I've been supplying you over and over; even if you don't care; because at least lurkers can see how much homosexuals like yourself hate Brendan Eich.
Anyways; if anyone is truly curious about what
these greentext lines mean; it boils down to Brave being the bext Chromium browser if you actually hate how slow and buggy Gecko is.
To quote myself from earlier
>best gecko browser: mullvad browser (if ur autistic about chromium and maybe a little bit too moronic about privacy considering mullvad and brave are comparable since they both have Tor devs working on them)
>best chromium browser: brave (if you care about speed, extensions, and privacy as a general non-moron who doesnt obsess over hidden cameras in their bedroom despite not having talked to anybody for years)
And there's nothing wrong with saying "hey guys this browser isnt so bad, try it out if youre banging your head against the wall with gecko based browsers" And there is nothing wrong with me flipping out when nobody is able to provide proof to brave being a keylogger/ crypto miner; because it essentially proves that there's a concerted effort by actual unironic homosexuals to subvert Brave for political reasons which is the worst method to undermine a browser deserving of valid scrutiny.
>that whole first paragraph
damn homie you really need to take a break
I accept your concession.
I don't even know what argument you think you're having with me, accept whatever concession you want. I hope that helps you with your illness
I don't even know why you're here man. You're not compelled to click on a thread you don't like.
Is it usual for you to know this about people on an anonymous image board? do you think you know people on here? Is it the trannies?
what is actually going on in your mind man?
>know this
???
Whats got you so confused that you've switched into IQfy shortest post wins mode?
If you're not here to answer the original OPs question you're allowed to frick of
How do you know what I'm allowed to do? There you go with schizo thinking you know me again. You really are a case study man
2/10 bait
You need to take a break
I'm literally playing tf2 while waiting for the original OP question; as it's relevant to myself as I use Brave and am worried about these rumor "keylogger/ NSA spyware " claims exemplified above see
Waiting for the Original OP questions answer*
Fixed and clarified
>I want to have an actual discussion with the people criticizing x, but also the people who disagree with me shouldn't even click the thread
>if you argue against me you're off-topic trolls and should go to /b/
>every shitpost is actually a coordinated attack
>if multiple people disagree with me, no they didn't, it's all one schizo
>constantly lurking the thread and typing up long multi-reply posts, always refreshing, sometimes reply to a post in under 15 seconds
you usually only see this brainrot in the most dedicated of generalgays, what sorry hugbox thread did you step out of so you can be the restless guard dog of your favorite chromium fork in the meantime?
even null didn't shill brave this hard, and that autist was trying to get paid so at least he had an excuse
Still no proof to the keylogger and cryptominer stuff? Alr that's cool. Thanks bro. You're dismissed.
I never made such claims myself. I'm here because this shitshow is funny, and I'm still waiting on anon to respond about his driveby claims of Mull connecting to Google servers.
Your "if you don't say what I want then leave the thread" shit only further convinces me that you spend >50% of your time on this site in a single circlejerk general thread.
I barely even post anymore. Maybe in 2023 I would post more often, but I can count less than 20 posts besides this thread; for this year.
>so far there's NOT been a single anon*
fixed. idk how i forgot to put in NOT; but anyways it's true. everyone can read the whole thread.
Mull ping google servers, would not use, about:configs doesnt work, bloatware anti privacy browser
>Mull ping google servers
elaborate, I killed and restarted it and did a few searches and clicked a few links and the only outbound traffic to anything google is when I click on a site using one of their services (and the exact same happened when I went to those same sites using brave)
Shavar is some Google service for "secure web"
It also calls to home.
I just opened the browser and entered about:configs with shavar disabled on it...
There's not any privacy oriented browser for smartphones.
Can't find logs for either of those when checking. Is it something it does constantly? Periodically? On startup? Is it tied to a certain feature, like the search bar or something in the settings?
I hate to be the "works on my machine" guy but I can't replicate this behavior on my side even after fiddling around a bit.
I think it gets a list of bad websites and put them hashed in your computer ever 1 hour or so.
If you didn't change anything and have an updated version it does it for sure.
Librewolf and mull don't remove it cause it's sold as a tracking protection by blocking websites that doesn't respect tracking protection, but it has to get this list every hour or so from outside of your network servers.
Librewolf is just arkenfox preloaded though. You're telling me firefox + ublock o + arkenfox also gives you this google domain request?
didnt read. make an argument/post in your own words and not GPT.
It's not Google domain, it's shavar from the mozilla domain domain.
It doesn't ping google directly.
Ok but answer the question ; as if I had said shavar instead
I just have raw mull on Android.
Mozilla is worst.
i c...
I'll leave Rethink running in the background and check for those names again later in the day, thanks for the heads-up anon
>no one in their right mind would defend ANY browser
So? Firefox users in this board are mentally ill? Glad to know we're in the same page.
At the end of the day, 99.9% of the criticism comes from Firefox shills.
You never see an Ungoogled Chromium, Vivaldi or Thorium user shitting on Brave. It's always the Firefox/Librefox cuck boasting about their shitty browser.
I literally use chrome for past 15 years and would trust the mega israelites more than brave. Google will dump my data for profits, brave just reeks of some kind of government project to collect data on potential criminals or "disinformation" posters.
Don't kid yourself a proper criminal would use a burner device to do criminal deeds probably even on stock windows too while a moron internet hate machine gangsta wannabe edge lord will download brave thinking he can "cheat the system" and be on some statistic as a crypto drug dealer or far right extremist. ANOM literally targeted dumbfricks like that and it worked lmao
You're so moronic it's actually crazy. Ask me how I know you've taken hard drugs. (and most likely still do, and will)
Why would a normie want Tor and crypto wallet built-in? That's right Brave knows their target audience. Also all these "disable it" advice posters don't realize how moronic they sound like you want me to compromise now? Sounds safe.
Most anyone who hasn't suffered from Terminal Online Brain will want to get to the truth of specific accusations when it's relevant to the core topic, e.g. technology on a technology board. The fact that you're so far gone in becoming an IQfy e-person that all you can do is repeat the same two mantras ("security compromised" and "SAAR") against all evidence and without offering any evidence of your own is proof of how INVESTED you are in believing something only because you heard lots of other people say it and the negativity reinforced your belief that you picked the right side in a skub debate. You're an annoying NPC, but the kind of IQfy NPC that is the exact reason why the rest of us can't have nice things re the flood of morons who make the whole site worse because they wandered in from preddit or faceberg or whatever and only know how to regurgitate what they heard from the crowd.
>why are people so dogged about contradicting my stupid feelings and false accusations!
Please go back to preddit or have a nice day, whichever gets you out of our hair faster.
I'm the anon he was replying to before leaving after attempting to have "the last word"; I don't think he TRULY believes Brave is a keylogger/crypto miner. What's most likely IMO is these homosexuals including
, are upset about chromium forks taking Mozilla's userbase.
It's a fight or flight response; they shit fling some insults at Brave users; maybe even autistically dedicate themselves to it by making some semi-decent photoshop edits to try and memetically engineer a consensus; but at the end of the day they leave quickly when OPs such as myself keep pressing them on to prove their claims; they run away with their tails between their legs.
(me)
*I'm the anon he was replying to before xhe left after attempting to have the last word*
fixed.
>the two brave spammers still at it
what drives someone to do this?
Exhibit A
>None of the above ever gets sufficient discussion most threads because any brave thread gets flooded with brain dead Black folk like you spamming the same mundane jeet copypasta over and over.
Yeah and you two will have the next 1000 threads over the next few years to spam this shit and make every point you want a million times. I just want to know why you do it
0.001 BAT
It appears that the concerns about Brave tracking user activity are addressed through the Brave Rewards system. The mechanism of the Brave Rewards is designed to replace traditional ads with a limited number of sponsored content, like wallpapers and listings, and users can customize their ad experience. The data collection is said to be done through aggregated anonymous crowd-sourced analytics, as detailed in the Randomized Response for Private Advertising Analytics documentation.
The client-side Local Differential Privacy (LDP) and the use of a reverse proxy (Cloudflare Spectrum) are mentioned to maintain user privacy. The reverse proxy is intended to blind the server from user IP addresses and establish unlinkability of randomized reports. This means that the data collected is supposedly anonymized and cannot be traced back to individual users.
While the provided information emphasizes the privacy measures taken, it's important to consider the trustworthiness of the source and the implementation of these measures. As with any technology, users should stay informed about updates, changes, and any potential privacy implications.
If you have specific concerns or doubts, it might be beneficial to explore additional discussions or reviews from credible sources to gain a comprehensive understanding of the privacy practices employed by Brave browser.
Brave on android has had this bug for nearly two years where the address bar in a new tab will be unclickable, or occasionally not even there.
You can pull it's head out of its ass by going to back to another tab you already have on a webpage, scrolling down, and switching back to the new tab, but it's annoying and it seems they have no intention of fixing it.
Do all chrome-based browsers have this issue?
I use iOS brave werks
>200 posts
>45 posters
Average Brave shill thread
see
Still waiting for the groundbreaking proof Brave is a keylogger/ crypto miner.
>moronic sperg slapfight still going
cool, but I'm still using the 3DS's built-in browser 🙂
I like you, Brave marketing guy. Very good shill; don't buy an ad.
I dont work for brave. I just want proof that the primary browser which ive been using for several years now (Brave) isnt a keylogger/crypto miner; which i hear people keep saying it is. So far theres 211 replies to the OP and not a single shred of proof.
Neat right?
Pretty neat indeed
but why?
What is the point of this moronic post?
exactly whats the point to defend shit you didn't write?
I wrote that you dumb homosexual. How new are you?
Also please tell the Brave team to implement mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts for *every* common browser action (like Vivaldi)
Thank you and please.
Now that microsoft is putting addon support in edge for android, will brave do the same?
Honestly if brave does it too then I'll switch to it immediately.
Don't use brave. It's adware. Use Opera instead.
>adware
?
I like brave
buy an ad
Eat this wiener, homo