Saw this in my adguard home query logs.

  • dangrousperson@feddit.org
    58·
    6 days ago

    From Wiki:

    Brave Software was founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and former Mozilla CEO who left the organization after coming under fire for his support of eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry […]

    and

    In August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund […]

    Should tell you everything you need to know.

    I’d say being ‘privacy focused’ is just a stick to get non-tech savy/gullible people that want to protect their privacy to use it, without thinking about it twice. Personally, I believe there is 0% chance they don’t sell (or simply give) all data they can to Peter Thiel and Palantir.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
      16·
      6 days ago

      …also to Facebook, also one of the investors. Brave has good privacy protections, but they are selective.

  • BCBoy911@lemmy.ca
    91·
    7 days ago

    Just use Firefox for gods sakes, Brave is a complete joke of a browser especially when it comes to privacy.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      7 days ago

      I’ve never really had a comfortable feeling about Brave. I have no substantiating evidence, it just seems a bit squirrely. Besides the Tor browser, LibreWolf, Waterfox, and FireFox are the only acceptable browsers as far as I’m concerned, tho I don’t come down on those seeking an alternative to Google Chrome.

      • erock@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 days ago

        Librefox has been awesome. Once you get the hang of enabling cookies for specific sites it mostly just works. Although Fastmail keeps logging me out for some reason

        • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
          101·
          7 days ago

          Far as I remember any browser in iOS is a scam anyways because Apple forces any browser in their platform to be based off of the same engine as Safari.

          • Zerush@lemmy.ml
            3·
            6 days ago

            AFAIK at least in the EU because have to admit also browsers with a different engine as WebKit. WebKit is same as Blink a fork from the KHTML engine by KDE, butway less advanced as Blink or Gecko, who outscore WebKit in modern webformats. This is why Apple don’t want other browsers which make Safari obsolete. Anyway, sooner or later Safari will be the next IE.

        • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          General practice, I do not use my phone as a compute platform. I realize others cannot do the same all the time. I do run firefox and a VPN which has an adblocker as part of it’s tool set.

    • FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      6 days ago

      It boggles my mind how people still recommend Brave as a good browser for privacy.
      The entire point of Brave from the beginning was their own Crypto currency that they wanted to shill.
      In their early days they offered a bunch of Tech YouTubers some crypto (via affiliate links) in return for them shilling brave.

      Brave is basically just yet another Chromium reskin with custom branding, extra tracking and crypto bullshit bolted to it.
      No, the builtin AdBlocker does not make it “worth it”. Stop recommending this pile of crap.

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    7 days ago

    even tho most low level searches and recommendations gonna point towards brave as the private browser, all you need to just look at the options. its datafarming, its running in the background randomly, its an nftbro chrome.

  • NinjaTurtle@feddit.onlineEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    Don’t a lot of browsers by default have pings set up to track usage? Check the privacy section. There is usually a check box about sending daily pings to whatever company made the browser to track usage.

    Not sure about the variations though

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
      3·
      6 days ago

      Any browser does it, it is needed for several reasons, every browser need to know the amount of users it has to calculate it’s market share. But statistical telemetries are not a privacy issue, it’s like an employee which count the amount of cars and trucks on a highway, to know if it is needed to enlarge the highway or not. A browser need to know it for its capacity of servers and sync, if they offer it. Normally the telemetries includes in which OS is used the browser and in which country, all this is legit and not a privacy problem.

      Bad only when it also include logs and profiling of user data and activity, as Chrome and EDGE do, and worse if this is sold to third parties. Decent browser don’t do it.

  • wolfiedafloof@lemmy.world
    101·
    6 days ago

    I tend to recommend Brave for the ones who aren’t technically savvy. For that, its good.

    For me who is really into privacy, I’ve always felt uncomfortable with brave or any chrome based browser. So I go with TOR and LibreWolf

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    92·
    7 days ago

    I use Vivaldi, it’s IMHO the only decent Chromium browser, apart European, with a good privacy, no logs, no tracking no third party investors. great services and community.

    • Mugita Sokio@discuss.onlineEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      I think Vivaldi is source-available, but it’s proprietary otherwise due to a BSD license that allows for source-availability.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yes, it’s proprietary because some script parts are. It’s not so easy to go full OpenSource for an Chromium browser which is more an online suite than a simple browser, because Google and M$ will kill to be able to fork it for Chrome and EDGE, which will have catastrophic aftermaths for all other Chromium browsers, include Vivaldi. Way easier to be OpenSource for simpler Chromium or Gecko forks. Anyway I think in a market saturated with browsers (over 100 different), beeing OpenSource isn’t in the main interest for the user anymore, prevailing more the ethics and transparency of the manufactor, 100% given in Vivaldi. Apart, as say, it’s the only decent browser from the EU on level eye with the US big Brother browsers. Alternatively there is Mullvad, butit is , apart of the privacy features, a very basic browser, more an platform for the Mullvad VPN, no own sync, only with Mozilla, Konqueror with the KHTML engine by KDE is discontinued, same as sadly the French UR browser. Thats it.

  • pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    72·
    7 days ago

    Depends on what you mean by “private”. I would not trust it much, but it’s not a bad Chromium based browser when you need one. Use something like LibreWolf for much more privacy out of the box.

    • monovergent@lemmy.ml
      51·
      7 days ago

      For the best privacy when you do need a Chromium-based browser, the ungoogled-chromium flatpak is an excellent choice.