It’s private as opposed to the public internet; there’s no “personal” in VPN.

I think Tor is too slow for most people / everyday browsing

I’m having problems opening the image, is it just me?

You were given a list of scenarios above that list where vpns are useful. It seems you’re the one who don’t know what you’re talking about.

alright then, keep your secrets

it’s a lot of code, not a lot of data. If any repo has binary files you’ll most likely need to store it somewhere else as there’s not even an option to pay that used storage.

they also have a limit of 100 repos, so I can’t even migrate everything I have on github

context, for the unaware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Greater_Pittsburgh_bank_robberies

That’s my point, checking a few boxes in the settings is the bare minimum if you care about it, so idk what’s the value in comparing defaults.

And privacy is often a tradeoff, if a browser doesn’t have the strictest by default, it’s probably because the ones who forked it didn’t consider it a good tradeoff.

That only seems relevant if one uses the defaults, and if you care about privacy you probably don’t, so idk what’s the goal of this little experiment other than just curiosity.

It’d be a whole lot more useful if it was “here’s the connections these browsers made after enabling all privacy-preserving settings they offer”.

who would have thunk

Apps that use dark patterns (aka almost everything in the play store) are more harmful than apps commonly flagged as malware.

shit like this really should be illegal

I don’t know if this is a case of bit rot, but just a heads-up OP: that script won’t detect this category of failure. You need a solution that computes checksums of the backed files to really be sure their content is integral.

yeah, myself, I just need a bit more shooting practice to receive my citizenship

It’s kind of bizarre that the US doesn’t have a national ID for internal everyday use, and people are just expected to have and use their driver’s license for ID purposes.

As an exclusive Linux user, I’m glad they just block Linux instead of normalizing kernel-level anti-cheat. BF6 is dead on arrival to me.

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If your baking app has a biometrics lock, it doesn’t mean the bank has your biometric data. That’s not how this works.

yeah, it’s stored locally. This is just FUD cause “big corpo bad”.

yeah, I do use Bitwarden, which has these things. But I store my TOTP codes on the phone to be separate from the passwords and… well, actually serve as multi-factor I suppose.

I loathe every time my work IAM forces me to sign in again, as it always asks for MFA. They use Okta and promote password managers, idk why we can’t enable passkeys to remove this hassle already.

Just pasting more info for those that were concerned, like me:

Issue. This was rolled back and only seemed to affect Windows.

(I don’t use Brave as a daily driver, but it’s my Chromium browser of choice when I need assess if a website is really broken, or if it’s just misbehaving on Firefox.)

until you need to collaborate with the average person who uses google docs and gmail

thoughts and prayers

Same, that’s why I stopped using rethink a while ago, even though I loved it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-defense-against-ai-guided-traffic-analysis-daita

ah my skip is 30s and I’ve only seen 2 ads in a row, max

IME ad times are pretty consistent by podcast feed when they’re artificially inserted like that.

When we’re talking product promotions during the podcast recording, they’re only consistent for a given episode, but that’s what sponsorblock is for.

damn, 8 times? Are your ads too long or is your skip too short?

video controls change when an ad is playing on YT, which would be a pretty reliable indicator for an extension running at the client side. But that’s more a UBO issue than sponsorblock when it comes to YouTube, as I’m not sure sponsorblock could do anything if the controls are frozen.

yeah, a few weeks ago I first heard a random US insurance ad or some crap like that, in English, when listening to a podcast from a different country. It took me a few seconds to realize what was going on.

We need Sponsorblock for podcasts

“oh no, anyway…”

GTA online was fun from 2015 until a couple years later before flying bikes and sky races. R* kept pushing updates that appeal to teenagers and absolutely ruined it.

valid question, idk why would people downvote it

broken websites on desktop are rare and not nearly enough to drive a browser change, but they usually fall into two categories:

1. websites that “break” on purpose for no good reason when they detect it’s not chromium. Either avoid the site or change the user agent.

2. websites that degrade some functionalities because they rely on newer features or on how things appear on chromium. They’re usually CSS breakages and do not affect browsing that much.

Support for manifest v2 greatly outweighs these potential issues imo.

unless you make sure to very closely check the URL.

or you use random passwords + password manager, which auto-fill won’t work in the fake domain.

Sell to LEO

Low Earth Orbit? I hate TLAs

that is a painfully bad list of requirements bullshit

yeah, that was funny. Creating a group without OP wasn’t enough, they had to change apps lol

I bought one in november to only use the HDMI to my Linux desktop. I’m never connecting it to the internet.