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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by kokanee on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:04PM (#35705109)
Brave does an enormous about of non-browser "stuff." Video calls, offline playlists, customizable news feeds, crypto wallet... they are trying to build a "super app" rather than a browser. The idea is that you can trust them because they aren't FAANG, but the problem is that if they actually were to succeed then they would be FAANG.

I haven't used Firefox in ages but AFAIK it has very little bloatware. The problem, from the perspective of a web dev, is that it has quite a few rendering quirks/bugs. These days chromium sets the standard for the "correct" way to render things.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by circuit10 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:12PM (#35705228)
I use Firefox and do some web development on it sometimes and I don’t really notice many/any bugs either with 3rd party sites or ones I’m making, apart from things that are unsupported on purpose like the file access API

Though I have noticed some issues in Teams but that’s about it

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by alanwreath on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:22PM (#35705363)
Brave may do all that you touched on - but it also aggressively blocks tracking. And the added stuff is not pushed in your face - blocking tracking is though.
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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by Dah00n on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:43PM (#35705623)
But didn't it add stuff itself instead and got caught snooping twice?
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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by soundnote on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:45AM (#35715602)
What do you mean? At least one of the cases was is routinely overblown to high heaven by people who hate the company and haven't actually read up on what happened.
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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by princevegeta89 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @04:10PM (#35706033)
Firefox has some foundational bugs, one of which was not being able to keep my bitwarden session in the extension in Private Windows.
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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by kencausey on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:01PM (#35706754)
Have you checked the settings for the extension in about:addons to ensure that the extension is enabled for private mode? Find the extension in the list, click on it or click the dots and click 'manage', on the details tab ensure that 'Run in Private Windows' is enabled.

I apologize if you are already well aware of this and that the problem is that is more complex than that.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by princevegeta89 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:38PM (#35707081)
No need to apologize! Yeah it is actually quite different from what you have mentioned.

Actually I did some Googling around, and found that it was fixed recently - after 4+ years lol. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/02/28/bitwarden-firefox-private-...

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