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
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    7 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
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      7 months ago

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

    • Engywuck@lemm.ee
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      7 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
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        7 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
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          7 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
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            7 months ago

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

            …

        • AnonTwo@kbin.social
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          7 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
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              7 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
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              7 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.

              • Lmaydev@programming.dev
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                7 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
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                  7 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.

              • LWD@lemm.ee
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                7 months ago

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

            • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
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              7 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?

  • YeetPics@mander.xyz
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    7 months ago

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

    • Samueru@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

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

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        7 months ago

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

        • Samueru@lemmy.world
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          7 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
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            7 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
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              7 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).