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LWD, to privacy in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

There’s no reason to hate Brave unless you have a political bias against their CEO.

Besides in 2016, when Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners

And when the CEO unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list.

And in 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent.

And in 2020, when Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites.

Also in 2020, when they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: “the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression.” Further requests were ignored (immediately closed)

And in 2022, when Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.

And in 2023, when Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users’ computers without their consent.

LWD, (edited ) to privacy in Not even Notepad is safe from Microsoft’s big AI push in Windows

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    LWD, (edited ) to privacy in The AirDrop flaw exploited by China, explained

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    LWD, (edited ) to privacy in Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding

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    LWD, (edited ) to privacy in 23andMe hackers accessed ancestry information on millions of customers using a feature that matches relatives

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    LWD, (edited ) to privacy in How good/bad is Firefox sync.

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    LWD, (edited ) to privacy in Here's what telegram's founder say about Whatsapp's privacy

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    LWD, (edited ) to privacyguides in What do you think about dVPNs?

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    LWD, (edited ) to privacy in Securing Bluetooth Headphones

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    LWD, (edited ) to privacy in Simple Mobile Tools apps

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    LWD, to privacy in An article about how a priest was discovered using gay apps

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    LWD, (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in Venus by Tuesday

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    LWD, to privacy in uefi is literally malware

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    LWD, (edited ) to privacy in Meta and YouTube face criminal surveillance complaints

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