Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by soundnote on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:32AM (#28786004)

> Brave is based on Chromium, it lacks some of the privacy centric features that are found in Gecko browsers. 1st party isolation,tracker blocking, containers, anti fingerprinting measures and SNI encryption are some things I can think of right now (maybe chrome as caught up now?)

What? One of the main points of the project is to build a browser with a whole bunch of tinfoil like tracker blocking and anti fingerprinting measures. They wrote their own built-in adblocker with Rust so it won't get fucked by Manifest v3 since it's part of the browser. They're the only Chromium browser that does CNAME uncloaking, something that uBlock Origin can only do on Firefox.

Containers are unique to Firefox, Chromium browsers handle that via separate user profiles.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by badrabbit on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:07AM (#28787294)

I use both brave and firefox daily. Nothing against brave, it has privacy protections as you mentioned, but ff also has privacy centric features that are not in brave. I have not made an empirical evaluation to measure which is better. That said there is a ton I normally configure in about:config that I just can't in Chromium. I only use brave because Firefox isn't good at handling memory intensive sites.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by soundnote on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:24PM (#28789452)

That is fair, but your original post basically implied that brave doesn't have a bunch of privacy features it very much has and that go beyond basically every other Chromium fork.

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