Frost Wolf@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIf you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox nowwww.fastcompany.comexternal-linkmessage-square989fedilinkarrow-up13.34Karrow-down191file-textcross-posted to: privacyhub@lemmy.worldiosapps@lemmy.world
arrow-up13.25Karrow-down1external-linkIf you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox nowwww.fastcompany.comFrost Wolf@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square989fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: privacyhub@lemmy.worldiosapps@lemmy.world
minus-squarecodr9linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·1 year agoThey use telemetry, trying to push Brave Rewards, Brave Wallet crypto stuff, Brave News. I find that a bit sneaky of a privacy focused browser.
minus-squareperezoso@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThanks for getting back to me. The rewards was why I signed up. Welp. Hadn’t used Firefox in ages. Stuck it back on asking with uBlock. Quite liking how it blocks pages from jumping to an app. I just need to work out how override it when I actually do occasionally want to follow a link to the playstore!
minus-squareEngywuck@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoFirefox does exactly the same: they have a lot of telemetry, they push their own services (pocket/vpn), they are in bed with Google and evil companies such as Amazon… What’s the difference?
minus-squarecodr9linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI did not say there was a difference, I don’t use Firefox because of the bad phone performance.
They use telemetry, trying to push Brave Rewards, Brave Wallet crypto stuff, Brave News. I find that a bit sneaky of a privacy focused browser.
Thanks for getting back to me. The rewards was why I signed up. Welp.
Hadn’t used Firefox in ages. Stuck it back on asking with uBlock. Quite liking how it blocks pages from jumping to an app.
I just need to work out how override it when I actually do occasionally want to follow a link to the playstore!
Firefox does exactly the same: they have a lot of telemetry, they push their own services (pocket/vpn), they are in bed with Google and evil companies such as Amazon… What’s the difference?
I did not say there was a difference, I don’t use Firefox because of the bad phone performance.