Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

3 years ago by Karna to c/privacy

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.
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starflower 196 points 3 years ago

Your friendly reminder that the Brave CEO is Mozillas old CEO, who was fired from Mozilla for being unapologetically homophobic.

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Engywuck -88 points 3 years 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.

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AtmaJnana 89 points 3 years 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.

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AnonTwo -51 points 3 years 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.

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fogstormberry 51 points 3 years ago

frankly, I dont trust an aggressive homophobe with my privacy

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ChemicalPilgrim 44 points 3 years 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

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