The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by drannex on Saturday June 06, 2020 @05:23PM (#23442343)

Agreed, I haven't seen or heard anything off kilter with Firefox in a very very long time and they have always been on the forefront of privacy and development features.

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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by toyg on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:28PM (#23442857)

Mozilla make their fair share of fuckups and bad moves, but they're still on a different level from these niche Chromium derivatives that invariably come with ugly business models attached.

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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by ethagnawl on Saturday June 06, 2020 @11:28PM (#23444538)

Well, there was the DNS-over-HTTPS thing and the Mr. Robot thing, and the Pocket thing and ... they're not perfect.

However, I've been using Firefox as my primary browser for about five years and have been very happy with it -- especially post Quantum. I can't even remember the last time I've had to switch to Chromium because something wasn't working.

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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by drannex on Monday June 08, 2020 @09:27PM (#23462689)

I am personally a fan of the DNS-Over-HTTPS experiment,I think it has a lot of benefits and hope it becomes standard.

The pocket thing isn't that bad, it's legitimately just a free cloud sync bookmarking service that you can use, or not. It's basically an extension of FF Sync, and no one has problems with that.

The Mr Robot plugin catastrophe was abhorrent, I certainly won't deny that.

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