From article:
If you have the Brave Browser installed on your Windows devices, then you may also have Brave VPN services installed on the machine. Brave installs these services without user consent on Windows devices.
More reason to ditch the crypto bro browser.
- Moonrise2473 ( @Moonrise2473@feddit.it ) 75•1 year ago
ugh, don’t touch my network stack
- funkajunk ( @funkajunk@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
Not that I’m defending anybody but how is this touching your “network stack” any more than any other application?
- t3rmit3 ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 12•1 year ago
because a VPN is both a new network interface, and it has the ability to change how your traffic routes. Most applications don’t do that.
- funkajunk ( @funkajunk@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
I see now that it was adding a wireguard interface, but without seeing the configuration being used, there’s no telling if they are routing anything more than the traffic from the browser.
As an aside, are you serving applications from your workstation?
- t3rmit3 ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Whether they route only the browser or traffic or not, that is messing with my traffic routing, and that’s dangerous. If they control the VPN exit node (but especially if they control that AND the browser), they can do almost anything they want with/ to your browser traffic.
Not sure what me serving out applications from my endpoint device has to do with this, but yes, I sometimes do (LAN games, netcat listeners, python servers, etc).
- abhibeckert ( @abhibeckert@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
there’s no telling if they are routing anything more than the traffic from the browser
Yeah that’s the problem “there’s no telling”. Messing with network settings is opening a can of worms and highly likely to cause problems one day.
- Engywuck ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 16•1 year ago
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726
And crypto are disabled by default.
No, I wont’ ditch it. It’s the best browser out there, right now, since scummy/corrupt/hypocrite Mozilla (which, remember, is in bed with Google, Amazon and Facebook while criticizing them) decided that Firefox is just a side project for them and they’re deceiving people making them believe that donations fund FF development.
Don’t even bother to reply. I’m not going to fuel this shitty thread any further.
- WastedJobe ( @WastedJobe@feddit.de ) 122•1 year ago
“In bed with”=takes their money to have their search engine and lets you change it in 30 seconds while being completely open source
I don’t see the problem.
- 30p87 ( @30p87@feddit.de ) 35•1 year ago
*9 seconds
- Norgur ( @Norgur@kbin.social ) 19•1 year ago
Fine, for you I’ll do it in 4!
- 30p87 ( @30p87@feddit.de ) 14•1 year ago
0.980s by using
ydotool key 29:1 20:1 20:0 29:0 -d 0 && ydotool type "about>preferences\n" -d 0 && sleep 0.26 && ydotool type "search engine\t" -d 0 && ydotool key 103:1 103:0 -d 20
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
Tbf, changing the default search engine probably has the effect that the vast majority of users will stick with it. So, although it is pretty easy for you and me to change the search engine, it still promotes Google quite a lot and thus undermines the independent character of Firefox as a whole.
- WastedJobe ( @WastedJobe@feddit.de ) 32•1 year ago
Absolutely. I would prefer they didn’t have google as the default, but I’d rather have Firefox with good funding and google as default than firefox with very little funding.
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
That’s a fair point, yes
- Pixel ( @pixel@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
And brave being built on chromium is somehow markedly better?
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I wasn’t defending chromium or brave, not even commenting on them at all. I was just adding a caveat to what the other commenter said about Firefox.
- WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) 84•1 year ago
You seem stable
- goferking0 ( @goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ) 18•1 year ago
I’d say so
https://lemm.ee/comment/4924770
solution that wipes the extremely profitable, For-Profit, Mozilla Corporation off your Internet
Mozilla should be removed from the entire internet but hey, it’s a beginning.
- meseek #2982 ( @ultratiem@lemmy.ca ) 13•1 year ago
Does anyone want to switch seats!?! looks around nervously
- toothpicks ( @toothpicks@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I’m rickety AF
- Norgur ( @Norgur@kbin.social ) 74•1 year ago
No one told you to ditch it. But can you fanboii a little less aggressively, please?
- LinkOpensChest_wav ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org ) 61•1 year ago
Have you ever interacted with a Brave user? No, they can’t.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 34•1 year ago
I swear they all have some sort of brain slug that makes them cultish and just generally unlikeable
- LinkOpensChest_wav ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org ) 32•1 year ago
If you look at what a raging tool the CEO is and the implications of the browser’s association with crypto (no matter how optional), I think that Brave just attracts that type of person
- beefcat ( @beefcat@beehaw.org ) 13•1 year ago
Makes sense given that the Brave CEO is a member of an actual cult.
- renard_roux ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Which one is that?
- beefcat ( @beefcat@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
the mormon church. it’s the reason he donates money to anti-lgbt causes.
- Rikj000 ( @Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de ) English69•1 year ago
True open source projects like LibreWolf, Ungoogled Chromium > Sketchy world of Brave
- ByteWelder ( @ByteWelder@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 year ago
I applaud LibreWolf’s efforts, but the hard-coded timezone makes it unusable for me. Other than that, it’s a great browser. I used it several months until the timezone confusion got the best of me.
- klangcola ( @klangcola@reddthat.com ) 8•1 year ago
What’s the deal with the timezone?
- ByteWelder ( @ByteWelder@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
If I recall correctly, it was meant as a measure against fingerprinting. It’s basically one less thing to uniquely define a user based on the info that the browser gives to a website. I’m not sure if it’s still like that, cause it’s been easily a year since I used LibreWolf.
- Baggins ( @baggins@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Yes, what is the deal? I can’t say that I’ve noticed any issues. Am in UK if that makes a difference. And I usually run it through Proton VPN.
- Aatube ( @Aatube@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
While I’ve never used LibreWolf before (I use Waterfox), that probably does make a difference as the UK is UTC+0.
- my_hat_stinks ( @my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ) 1•1 year ago
The UK is only UTC+0 for half the year, currently at UTC+1.
- Rikj000 ( @Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•1 year ago
I switched to LibreWolf after I learned that Waterfox was/is ran by an advertisement company.
Today they should be independant again, however my trust in them is forever lost.
- Aatube ( @Aatube@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I do not subscribe to guilt by association or being that concerned about privacy.
- abhibeckert ( @abhibeckert@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Two issues.
First of all a lot of websites show times in your current timezone. Beehaw for example says you wrote your post “2 days ago”. Depending what timezone my browser is in, that could display 3 days or 1 day. When I hover over it, it shows the exact date/time in my timezone. Which is handy.
Second it doesn’t actually achieve the intended goal. Even if you use a VPN chances are you’ve set it to give you a public IP address close to you to have good performance. And if your IP address is in Proton’s London datacentre but your timezone is UTC+0 when everyone else is UTC+1… well you stand out like a single black sheep in a flock of white ones and ad networks are absolutely fingerprinting you with that.
- Moonrise2473 ( @Moonrise2473@feddit.it ) 58•1 year ago
It’s still a behavior like “we are the best software in the world, once we get admin permission we can do whatever we want without additional user consent, people appreciate it”.
No. You must ask permission to install useless Windows services, even if they’re disabled.
- lukini ( @lukini@beehaw.org ) 42•1 year ago
Don’t even bother to reply. I’m not going to fuel this shitty thread any further.
Nah I’m gonna pile on. Firefox is better.
- unreliable ( @unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de ) 39•1 year ago
You a full of mins information that only benefit google having full internet monopoly. Brave is chrome. Chrome is google.
- HeartyBeast ( @HeartyBeast@kbin.social ) 29•1 year ago
You’re the one who made it shitty. But much to crap on the bed then get up and leave.
- nicetriangle ( @nicetriangle@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
lol
- DidacticDumbass ( @DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one ) English9•1 year ago
Somehow I trust Opera and Microsoft over Brave as this point.
What a world.
- toothpicks ( @toothpicks@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
None of these companies know the first thing about consent, it’s disgusting
- toothpicks ( @toothpicks@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Just because I bought something from you doesn’t mean I consent to you penetrating my inbox
- penquin ( @penquin@lemmy.kde.social ) 4•1 year ago
Just use Thorium
- Jaxseven ( @Jaxseven@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year ago
What’s the difference from Chromium? Main “selling” point?
- penquin ( @penquin@lemmy.kde.social ) 1•1 year ago
This thing is blazing fast. And when I say blazing fast, I mean freaking blazing fast. I’ve never seen a browser this fast my entire life. Lol It’s chrome but 10x faster. Give it a shot.
- Mika ( @MikaTech@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
I’m considering it, but how does thorium handle Google’s recent Web manifest updates that break true ad blockers like uBlock origin?
I’ve been pretty happy with the customizability of librefox with the userchrome.css and ublock still works with YouTube.
- penquin ( @penquin@lemmy.kde.social ) 3•1 year ago
Well, you have two options. The same developer of thorium does have a Firefox one and it’s called mercury. Blazing fast, too. Or you can install adblock detection bypass extension on thorium. It is an extension that’s made to work with chrome alongside ublock origin to bypass YouTube adblock detection. In fact, I literally just ran into that issue today and the other extension fixed it.