Brave Software has announced plans to deprecate the 'Strict' fingerprinting protection mode in its privacy-focused Brave Browser because it causes many sites to function incorrectly.
  • Flori@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    10 months ago

    Your friendly reminder that the Brave CEO is Mozillas old CEO, who was fired from Mozilla for being unapologetically homophobic.

    • Rose@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      Worse than merely being homophobic, as he financially supported politicians and causes that worked to prevent equal rights.

    • Engywuck@lemm.ee
      11·
      10 months ago

      He wasn’t fired. He voluntarily left. And thus Mozilla is left with an incompetent CEO whose only aim is to increase her paycheck year after year, despite pathetic market share results for FF. Enjoy that.

      That said, nobody cares about your “friendly remainders”. We’re talking about software here, not politics.

      And, to stay on topic, yes, it happened to me that Strict FP broke some website, in particular those displaying a frame with a map or similar stuff. So I’ve resorted to use “standard” FP myself.

      • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
        01·
        10 months ago

        nobody cares about your “friendly remainders”. We’re talking about software here, not politics.

        Nah. I care. You dont speak for me. I cant tell if you’re a shill for Brave or a MAGAt or both.

        • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
          0·
          10 months ago

          Wow. The internet must be really rough for you if people don’t wear labels so you know who to hate before learning a damn thing about them!

          • LWD@lemm.ee
            1·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, it’s terrible when an entire group of people are discriminated against for a label.

            …

        • AnonTwo@kbin.social
          0·
          10 months ago

          I mean, you can grandstand all you want while you have no platforms to safely do it on. Pretty sure having working products for privacy is more important to activism than one guy being an asshole.

            • ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world
              1·
              10 months ago

              Yeah that’s rarely the only trait someone has that I find objectionable. Homophobia tends to come in a cluster with other shithead opinions

            • AnonTwo@kbin.social
              11·
              10 months ago

              I’m…honestly surprised you can be on lemmy when you damn products over singular people. Just cause I know there’s people who have tried to dissuade others from lemmy over the developers. And in that case the people involved are even closer to the code than a CEO would be.

              • LWD@lemm.ee
                1·
                10 months ago

                Lemmy is one of the least “owned by a single person” projects online.

              • Lmaydev@programming.dev
                11·
                10 months ago

                If someone gets fired for being a piece of shit and then hired somewhere else it’s pretty fair to assume that company isn’t great. As they presumably knew that when they hired him and didn’t care.

                It’s also the person running the company not some random employee.

                • AnonTwo@kbin.social
                  11·
                  10 months ago

                  Okay

                  But in this entire discussion we haven’t even tied him or his homophobia to the feature change this article is discussing.

            • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
              01·
              10 months ago

              🤔 look, I’m not defending bigotry….

              But an aggressive homophobe seems like the type to be highly motivated to care deeply about working privacy tools these days

              So who exactly do you trust?

    • Samueru@lemmy.world
      01·
      10 months ago

      Firefox lacks a ton of features and its default settings have terrible fingerprinting protection to start.

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, Firefox lacks features like built-in pop-up ads, full screen homepage ads (those ones are enabled by default), and a VPN you probably didn’t even purchase.

        Truly, the features I wanted to clog up my hard drive whether I use them or not

        • Samueru@lemmy.world
          01·
          10 months ago

          FIrefox lacks vertical tabs, can’t change the default new tab page background color without having to use a custom .css file.

          Having to use a userContent.css for something so basic is insane. That is orders of magnitude more work than disabling the crypto ads in brave which you don’t even have to go in the settings to disable, it is right on the homepage menu.

          Also firefox lacks configurable keybinds and when I used librewolf I had to add two extensions for something that basic.

          One was to change the default keybinds to changing tabs from alt+123 to control+123 because for some reason they changed it on linux to that which is retarded (opening a new tab is still control+t so you can’t just say that it is all the control options that got moved to alt lol).

          The other extension was to deattach the tab which firefox has no keybind set for it.

          And one of the best features that firefox has, which is the userChrome.css has only gotten worse over time with it breaking with new updates and also now having it disabled by default and hidden inside the about:config menu.

          The default vpn on brave is terrible, although that only affected windows. And firefox is only slightly better on this because and pardon me if I’m mistaken (I don’t wanna install firefox to check lol) didn’t they change the default settings to send all dns over https to cloudflare? On librewolf they got rid of the default one and you have to provide one instead.

          Edit: Look no further, you even have to install ublock origin on firefox to get rid of ads and also configure its filter list if you want to get rid of cookie prompts, something that brave does by default already.

          • Pantherina@feddit.de
            1·
            10 months ago

            These are all UI things you can add with extensions or some modding. Firefox needs forks for that.

            Not to speak of actual features like sandboxing on android, user namespace sandboxing on Linux, and more.

            • Samueru@lemmy.world
              01·
              10 months ago

              Yeah no biggy, just some 7 extensions and some css and you will get somewhat usable experience on Firefox…

                • Samueru@lemmy.world
                  01·
                  10 months ago

                  That is horrible that you have to install a bunch of extensions for basic features, and one of those extensions to fix something that mozilla went out of their way to break on linux and not that they havent add.

                  And there is also things like syncing the user sessions and settings without an email which brave can do while firefox and forks can’t

                  edit: And you ignored half of my comment, doing css to get firefox to work IS NOT EASY lmao.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Then customize it. Honestly they aren’t all that bad and by using Firefox you ate not supporting google.

        • Samueru@lemmy.world
          01·
          10 months ago

          I have done that, and it a horrible, it takes more work to make a useChrone.css on firefox than to setup a wm on linux lol

          You can also use any of the forks of chromium and not support google, what you said is like telling people not use grapheneos because it is a fork of android.

          • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            If we had a working alternative to Android as a whole, we would surely use it. But Linux on mobile works only in few devices and not flawlessly at all. But for the Chromium monopoly we have an actual alternative that works.

            • Samueru@lemmy.world
              02·
              10 months ago

              Linux on phones already work, just that phonecalls might not work sometimes, but if you are into privacy you might as well not use that anyway lol.

              So yeah, time to drop graphene and start using linux on phones, if you managed to get firefox to work you can use linux phones, sure some websites might not work on firefox (that is not fault of firefox, same way not all apps might work on linux) and you may need to do some coding to get some things to your liking (using custom.css files is like settings up a bunch of configs and scripts on linux) and you might need to add a bunch extensions to get basic features (like adding extensions to gnome lol).

  • YeetPics@mander.xyz
    2·
    10 months ago

    The scam company brave? The one that scams people? With their scam based crypto rewards that don’t pay out? THAT brave?

  • moitoi@feddit.de
    0·
    10 months ago

    Brave to end ‘Strict’ fingerprinting protection as it breaks owns ad revenue.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      01·
      10 months ago

      No it literally breaks sites. I was using Firefox with Arkenfox user.js, basically Torbrowser, and nothing broke unless the site told me “your browser is not supported”. Braves strong defaults broke Github and more.

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          01·
          10 months ago

          Not much Brave can do there? I dont know what they did. You are probably better off with UBO and NoScript (both MV2 btw).

          But everyone is escalating about Brave removing a broken feature as if they where getting worse or something. The feature was broken, they removed it. Thats it.