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Re:The Mullvad Browser by sph on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:05AM (#35422085)
Eich is divisive, sure, but Brave is not a secure browser any more than Firefox is, with a lot of phoning home and crypto widget, that like them or not, are out of place in a browser you want to trust.

Ideally my browser and all the software I use do not connect and fetch data unless I tell them to. A browser should not be "bundled" with extra widgets for convenience.

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Re:The Mullvad Browser by INeedMoreRam on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:43AM (#35422538)
You can completely disable the crypto wallet.
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Re:The Mullvad Browser by sph on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:50PM (#35428299)
On-by-default is a terrible security and privacy approach.
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Re:The Mullvad Browser by anotherhue on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:08AM (#35422888)
Brave had the least home-phoning in the study https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study...
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Re:The Mullvad Browser by Geezus-42 on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:43AM (#35423442)
I would have liked to see where Vivaldi fell in there testing.
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