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Kagi is now partnering with Brave (chaos.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Quite a controversial decision.... I love Kagi though, but I don't understand why they would want to drag Brave into this.

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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I dislike Brave because they cultivated a not-so-deserved reputation. I see newcomers to privacy being recommended this and it's just sad.

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  • [+] -13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

    Brave is great, it even lets you sync your browser session without having to use an email. And their android app lets you watch youtube vid without ads and in the background.

    It along librewolf are the only browsers that come with good default privacy settings.

    Edit: Looks like I struck a nerve on some people lol

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    You're comment implied it's a good privacy centric browser, which is wrong.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    It actually is, it comes with good fingerprinting protection by default.

    https://privacytests.org/

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Who is the brave employee that runs it? privacytest is actually a open source test that you can run in your browser and has its own repo.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Good fingerprinting protection != good privacy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Alright what makes a browser good for privacy if fingerprinting does not count? (it does but I want to hear what you will say).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    TL;DR: All chromium based browsers are shit. Switch to hardened firefox or librewolf

    I am not sure what you understand under fingerprinting (you literally can get the same fingerprinting protection by enabling the resistFingerprinting configuration in about:config in Firefox). Also fingerprinting protection, by ifself, isn't enough to make a browser private. Plus I am not sure how anyone can even trust Brave's browser when they are sketchy as fuck. Not only did they do creepy stuff like url injection, but also now have those weird ads and they are also into crypto which is not a good sign. I still fail to understand why people won't appreciate Firefox browsers. The same functionality can be achieved if you spend literally like 5 minutes on it. Is it an issue with being lazy or just being not informed about it. Though I still do not recommend the stock firefox you can get from the official site. You're better off installing something like Librewolf if you are someond that looks into "privacy" out of the box or hardened firefox with arkenfox's user.js for the most privacy you probably can get without breaking literally every website you visit.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    All chromium based browsers are shit. Switch to hardened firefox or librewolf

    I've used firefox for years, in fact I sitll have librewolf on my PC with a custom userChrome.css, but the browsing experience is only getting worse every year and mozilla only breaks userChrome with every new update.

    I also mentioned librewolf in my original comment already.

    Plus I am not sure how anyone can even trust Brave’s browser when they are sketchy as fuck.

    They are open source lol

    The same functionality can be achieved if you spend literally like 5 minutes on it

    How do you sync your browser sessions without having to use an email? This is what mostly keeps me on brave.

    Also it really took me a while to get librewolf to block the cookie prompts from websites, because I had to go into the ublock origin settings and find the filter that blocks the cookie prompts, brave on the other hand does this automatically for you. As well as already having a built in dark mode, you don't have to install 6 different extensions which is what I have on librewolf to get it to work.

    Also on linux firefox maps the alt+number keys to change tabs instead of using control+number keys, again on brave this comes by default, on firefox that is also another extension that needs to be added to fix that.

    In fact can you even change the background color of the new tab page in firefox? On brave it is super easy, it even lets you use an image, on librewolf I had to use a custom userContent.css for something so basic wtf.

    Also you didn't go into details on what makes a browser good for privacy, brave can even block scripts if we are talking about going beyond the default settings, which on librewolf you have to use an extension as well to achive that.

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