Posted on 01/26/2022 10:01:57 AM PST by george76
Brave or Opera
Google’s customer is: US Government, Corporations, and itself
Google’s product is: the private information of every person who uses Google
Developing, maintaining, securing, and supporting a web browser is not cheap.
Opera is China owned. I would have switched completely from Firefox to Opera if it weren’t for that. Although Opera, much like most browsers, is Chromium-based.
Block all cookies on the browser you use to surf the web.
Use a separate browser for sites you must go to that would require the use of cookies, such as to login to an account like FR. Even then, regularly delete the cookies.
Is Brave good?
Doubtful. Chromium is open source. So, if they do add this to Chromium, Brave and others will just fork the code before the change and move on as if nothing happened. That could introduce headaches down the road, but life as we know it would go on without this. The horses are out of the barn.
Firefox is as bad as Chrome if not worse.
“Brave” is for the free who want to remain free.
Google is just EVIL spelled with extra letters.
Yes. I have found a few financial sites that will only work with Chrome - browser detection requires it, though I know it can be spoofed. Other than those, Brave is great.
I run Waterfox, a privacy based version of Firefox. I run uBlock Origin, YesScript & Ghostery addons.
I also run the Brave browser and one for Ubuntu called Falkon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkon; https://www.falkon.org/. There’s a portable version for Windows and they also have a PortableApps version, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PortableApps.com; https://portableapps.com/.
Thank you. Interested.
I find Brave an annoyance. I feel like I am in a straitjacket when I used it in past, and I’ve tried three separate times. If I were to switch to anything else, it would be Vivaldi. Customizable enough to be usable. It is my backup browser for when Firefox barks about a webpage, which it’s doing far more often than I would like.
It’s going to be used to gather info on people that click on Trump websites and FR along with YouTube video’s about ammo comparison’s to report them to the Justice dept. They will categorize you as a gun owner, or a boat owner, or a Prius driver, or an anti vaxxer. Just one step closer to 1984.
It’s not “cookies” that I’m particularly concerned with. It’s when you “login to Google Chrome” when the inter-site tracking comes into play. Cookies allow a specific domain to remember some details about your prior interaction, like a user name - and they can only read cookies to their specific domain, not others. Logging in to your Google Account in Chrome is a different beast. ...unless the “cookies” specification has changed since I used to do web development.
That said, the number one tracker across any set of companies is your CELL PHONE NUMBER. They all say providing it is “to improve your security” but it isn’t - it is so they can correlate, on their respective backends, what user name (different in each companies system) relates to the same individual. As people now tend to keep the same phone number, even when they change carriers, it’s become your “online ID” and people don’t realize it.
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