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Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 93 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Unfortunately that would involve using the Brave browser, which is an antifeature in itself.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can you elaborate? I don’t use it.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They shit on it because just like Mozilla, they made some shit decision by making some shady partnerships, and because the CEO is transphobic/homophobic/can't remember

    Apart from the usual bullshit and antifeatures it has, it's still a great browser choice, just like Firefox

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Just like Mozilla".

    Let's compare.

    Mozilla: installed a closed-source plugin once, and then apologised for it.

    Brave CEO: actively supports homophobic organisations, donates money to them, injects affiliate links to stores, whenever given a microphone will say something bigoted and homophobic.

    Yeah, it's totally the same exact issue with both browsers!

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago*

    Brave: injected affiliate links once, then apologised for it too. Developped a search engine to be less dependent on big companies

    Mozilla is spending money like crazy, just like Wikipedia, has little to no democratic system which makes people fork the stuff they make, and prefer to use the money from donation to buy trips all over the world to educate about privacy and shit while they proceed to keep adding more telemetry and BS in firefox

    They also make it close to impossible to install plugins outside their plugins website, which I've heard has some strict rules and take a lot of time to approve stuff. Closed garden bullshit again

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I just think the idea of your alternative being partially coded by the company you're attempting to avoid is a little stupid. I don't give a shit who he is. I barely give a shit who runs Mozilla.

    Brave and every other Chromium fork are at the mercy of Google to exist as an alternative to Google, which to me, defeats the point. Every bit of their effort would be better spent rolling their money over to donate to browser development rather than band-aids.

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