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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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When you download Brave for Windows, you are also downloading the company's VPN service, for better or worse.
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    Firefox with good plugins is even better!

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      Absolutely! Another really good fork of FF to check out is Floorp I’m thinking of making it my main and going steady :) https://floorp.app/en/

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          he uses this post as the sole way to access the internet. He is forever trapped here with no way out. He weeps for there are no memes to him but his condition, as he slowly falls into the pit of insanity. He is forever condemned to read about Brave browser quietly slippin VPN services, and the occasional comment. But eventually the activity will die, and he will be condemned to a lifetime of loneliness until bit-rot will consume the thread or death will free him of his pain.

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            It’s like his personal version of when the sun dies for an immortal.

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              😆 How did I manage to do that? LMFAO

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            Wow man, you should write a short novel

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            😄

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          OMG fixed. Thank you :)

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      Unless browser fingerprinting is your concern, in which case the most generic, unmodified browser is best (e.g. Tor).

      But that is a huge topic for another thread.

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        Overall you‘re right but in which world is tor generic and unmodified 😂

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          The Tor browser is a modified version of Firefox, but you are not meant to modify the Tor Browser, in order for everyone using the Tor Browser to look the same and blend in. This is done for maximum privacy and anonymity.

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          Simply the OS already makes that difficult, true. Nonetheless, it’s one of your best bets.

          For those who truly want to stay private, installing plugins on the Tor browser is obviously a no go. Changing any setting or even the window size should not be done. Seriously.

          And I’d venture that Tor on phones might be the most homogenous, though that still isn’t saying a lot, sadly. Plus, smartphones are a privacy nightmare regardless (tip of the iceberg).

          In the end, fingerprinting makes true privacy very challenging. Great introduction to the topic.

          And an advanced writeup with excellent resources for those who really want to get into the subject matter.

          Edit: spelling

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      This is the way

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