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brave browser is spyware? yes.

there is Brave.... why do they not work with brave?

cos brave is antifa ...

  1. https://archive.md/OKfAs#issuecomment-911342701
  2. https://archive.md/lT6eS#issuecomment-912096187

they censored both my comments, and blocked me from their github project

less horrible browsers are ungoogled-chromium or librewolf ...

but remember, the best software is useless with hardware backdoors, which are included in 99% of all "consumer grade" electronics

dont like hardware backdoors? just buy some "military grade" electronics or, you know, solder your own computer from a thousand transistors

comment 1:

Tectract said

auto-update is a virus. Literally a major security and stability vulnerability. Software should NEVER EVER auto-update, and it shouldn't nag the user to update either. No software should ever "nag" any user, that's bad design by engineers who don't respect their users. Software should only update when the user WANTS to update it.

rhclayto said

Yeah, this form of tech paternalism is a huge turn-off & annoying as all hell.

exactly.

also see brave on the "Spyware Watchdog" https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html

Spyware Level: High

Brave is self updating software, uses Google as the default search engine, has built-in telemetry, and even has an opt-out rss-like news feed [Brave Today] similar to Firefox Pocket. These shouldn't be the things that come to mind if someone were to imagine a privacy oriented browser. solutions

to all the "sane" people in this thread lets start a hostile fork : ) after all, thats the beauty of open source im also inviting Eloston from ungoogled-chromium

to all the neo-fascists ...

... trying to FORCE me [with hardware backdoors] to my own luck ...

tomlowenthal said

Hello, automatic updates are a core part of our commitment to security. Delaying them is always a risk. We're not going to add a feature to disable automatic updates.

profile pic:

[colors of antifa: black white red]

bio:

They/them.

location:

San Francisco

organizations:

mozilla mozilla-b2g nortonimperiallabs

no comment.

comment 2:

This is on our radar.

bullshit. this takes 10 minutes to fix, but you make it 10 years

I cleaned up a few of the comments. Let's please keep things civil here - no personal attacks

thanks for the confirmation, only criminals must hide

obviously, spyware and censorship go hand in hand

from bsclifton bio:

Previously godaddy & intel.

[godaddy] has been involved in several controversies related to censorship [wp]

Critics like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Libreboot developers, and security expert Damien Zammit accused the ME of being a backdoor and a privacy concern. [wp]

these people are proud ex-members of NSA/CIA shell companies (intel, mozilla, godaddy), and now they are "freedom fighters"?

remember kids, autoupdates was invented (and aggressively pushed) by google and microsoft, which are also just shell companies for NSA/CIA

if you care about software security, subscribe to some newsfeed for software vulnerabilty, for example https://security.snyk.io/

... but the devil is in hardware backdoors

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milahu commented Nov 7, 2022

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy/issues/278

https://archive.ph/2Bn7D

Repository owner locked and limited conversation to collaborators

stupid or evil?

probably both

edit: lock was revoked - thanks

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https://archive.ph/0bNtn

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