Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by kissickas on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:32PM
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I'm uninformed. By what metric is Brave better than Firefox on privacy? I did some quick research and could only find clearly biased (and poorly-written) sources making that claim.
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Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by kissickas on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:34AM
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Ah thanks, by default. From what I gather from the study, if you disable telemetry and don't use Google/Yahoo in the search bar, you're good to go.
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by eh78ssxv2f on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:56AM
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I'm still confused by this study. If the brave browser is not contacting the backend, how does it fetch the latest ad block sets or the native ads? It seems like the browser has to contact its own servers to do any of these things.
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by naasking on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:55AM
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Ads are not enabled by default. And when they are, they do not transmit information that can be used to identify the user.
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by eh78ssxv2f on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @09:40AM
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How is the user's IP address hidden from the servers?
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by eh78ssxv2f on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:03PM
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That's great. When is it coming to Stable? Also, des the ad traffic generated by Brave also goes through the Tor?
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by reportgunner on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:40AM
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A site doing research on privacy asking me to store cookies ?
Something doesn't feel right.
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by SuoDuanDao on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @09:10AM
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Maybe research has shown caring about user privacy is bad for the bottom line.