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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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It’s got crypto, scammy stuff built it
They tout themselves as being a private browser but also harvest a lot of your data
Last I used it the browser was also kind of glitchy
They’re chromium so they’re still bound by the whims of Google anyway
@candyman337 @Albin9326 what browser do you use? Hardened Firefox or some variant of it?
I’m not SUPER concerned about privacy tbh, I mean I care about it, but I’ll make some concessions for the sake of convenience, like in the form of a mozilla account to transfer settings and addon’s between computers. So I probably wouldn’t be a good example, but I use waterfox, it recently just went independent after being bought by a company awhile back, and I like it. But if you’re looking for a privacy/security focused browser librefox I hear is a good one. It’s based on firefox and has a lot of security features built in by default.
If you’re looking for a VPN solution I highly recommend mullvad vpn, super secure, makes an effort to respect your privacy, and is genuinely one of the fastest vpns I’ve used.
Can you elaborate on the harvesting of data? I haven’t heard that part before and would like to learn more.
Here’s a few articles I found:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire-for-alleged-sale-of-copyrighted-data/491854/
https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/
Thank you I will read through them.