Probably because of this https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/
Probably because of this https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/
Here's a brief synopsis of the various things Brave has gotten up to, with receipts rather than "Brave is spyware": https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/.
Personally, I see a pattern of continually engaging in underhanded and rent-seeking behavior that does not align with its stated goal of ensuring user privacy. Because I see a pattern of trying things to see what they can get away with, I lack any trust in their future behavior and have no desire to use software that I feel I have to maintain constant vigilance over what changes they're making from release to release.
I totally get your point about not wanting to use Brave for ethical and moral reasons, but considering I haven't seen any issues lately regarding a lack of privacy or honesty from the devs, I'm actually really comfortable where I'm at.
It's not just about moral reasons (although I would write them off for moral reasons alone, to be clear). Brave as a browser has a history of making privacy worse- see, for example, disabling advance anti-fingerprinting in 2024 and their piss-poor tor implementation in 2021. Your initial comment had said you hadn't seen anything since 2018 and maybe you like the browser enough to not care about their history of careless implementations of privacy features or their limiting of user choice on fingerprinting protections, but I don't see how these objections can be dismissed as not relating to privacy.
Brave is easier to fix than Firefox, not counting its forks. And, depending on how you feel about Firefox-like performance on mobile devices vs Chrome-likes (FF-likes are much slower especially on older devices, have no tab grouping, suffer extremely subpar handling of old tab management, have really frustrating bookmark management), even the good Firefox forks lag behind substantially.
I TOTALLY agree with that; it's not that great straight out of the box, but if you take 15 minutes of your time to customize it, it'll be perfect for daily use.
Brendan Eich is Palantir CEO and Jeffrey Epstein associate Peter Thiel's friend and business partner.
Even ignoring the shady/questionable stuff Brave has done on its own wrt to crypto and advertising, you gotta be a special kind of stupid to know about the Thiel connection and believe Brave is a trustworthy browser.
Switch to Fennec, LibreWolf, or any of the dozens of Firefox forks out there.
SimpleLogin, Mullvad, Ente, Notesnook, Aegis, Bitwarden, ProtonMail... and fucking TikTok. Come on man, all that effort to improve your privacy and then you go and install literal spyware on your phone? At least isolate it on its own user profile if you really have to.
so how can I do that then??
Check out Shelter on Fdroid, it creates a 2nd profile for compartmentalizing apps.
Try deleting TikTok and trying Loops, the fediverse alternative.
I've heard of this Fediverse thing but I don't know what it is, can you tell me what it's all about?
You mean create a new user profile? Just follow the instructions here, that is how it works on AOSP and all ROMs that don't diverge too much from it. Then just keep TikTok and only TikTok there, so it doesn't have access to the rest of your data.
Delete TikTok
K-9 got rebranded to Thunderbird. I see Mozilla are releasing K-9 at the same time, but I'm unsure why. Thunderbird is double the size so there must be some kind of difference
I've found that I too had to keep Google Play Store because some apps complain if it goes missing. However I've blocked network access for it (something GrapheneOS can do) and it's effectively cut off from the mothership.
Neither have reported trackers on the Aurora store. But I would suspect it's some kind of bloat. I'm sure it's trivial to do an apk teardown and check the source code. I can't be bothered though.
all the work just for TT an roblox. side note if you didnt already you should disable internet perms on brawl stars
it doesn't make much sense to disable internet permissions for brawl stars since it's an online game, like, I really need that
ah i see sorry i wasnt to sure what it was. thought it was one those single player online games
What launcher is that?
Brave is chromium* Chromium ≈ Google, but no = Google I switch for Fennec btw
Surely you can trust the closed source corporate crypto fork... Anyway, are ya trying to degoogle or aren't ya? For me that means not using Google shit period. But to each his own.
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...
why do people insist on using fucking brave
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