Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte...
by superq on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:32PM
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Mozilla now sells data, while Brave does not?
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte...
by johnmaguire on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:04PM
(#43210823)
Does Mozilla sell your data, or did they remove language saying they won't?
Do you really think Brave won't, when it comes time to pay the piper?
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte...
by glenstein on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:48PM
(#43211829)
Brave sells ads and discloses aggregate-level data to advertisers, and has a history of trust-undermining transgressions mentioned upthread:
>installs VPN without asking, overriding links to insert referral codes, collecting donations for YouTubers without YouTubers even knowing about it, etc, etc
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte...
by josephh on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:14PM
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For the simple reason of not using Gecko
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte...
by johnmaguire on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:59PM
(#43210722)
What's wrong with Gecko?
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte...
by glenstein on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:49PM
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I would think the logic runs exactly the opposite way. Browser diversification would make not using chromium the good thing, rather than not using gecko.
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte...
by soundnote on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:47PM
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Site isolation is one: Firefox doesn't sandbox websites from each other on non-Windows platforms, and even on Windows its sandboxing solution is just worse than Chromium's. They're doing work on implementing sandboxing more widely, mind, but still have a long road ahead of them to get to parity.
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte...
by johnmaguire on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:35PM
(#43214037)
Firefox has had site isolation since 2021: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/05/18/introducing-sit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...