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.

Technology and ethics and politics are not airgapped magically distinct things. Pretending that they are is a strategic political choice you are actively making.

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Ok. I’m a bad person because I enjoy using a given browser. I get that.

Another one that goes on my ignore list. Bye.

If that’s what you feel is the case if you don’t separate politics from technology then that sounds like a personal problem to address.

Ok. I’m a bad person because I enjoy using a given browser. I get that.

This is a straw man argument; no one said you’re a bad person for using a certain browser.

nobody cares about your “friendly remainders”. We’re talking about software here, not politics.

This is what they are criticising you about. You could be using Edge or Chrome, it wouldn’t matter here, that wouldn’t make you a bad person. The point is that pretending there is no connection when there is clearly a huge relevance here is massive.

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The point is that pretending there is no connection when there is clearly a huge relevance here is massive.

In the imagination of upvotes-hungry virtue-signaling people, of course.

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