Privacy isn’t just about whether some corporation has your raw data or not. If your own device is tracking your behaviour & profiling you to open you up to being manipulated by corporations, that is also a violation of your privacy. Brave and Apple violate your privacy by proxy.
@aral
I thought that Brave browser was doing pretty good in this sense, but I must have missed something... It seems to me that every solution that comes up is not really a solution, but maybe just a little improvement. It's like you move from one software to another and then you discover that this software you just started to use is not as good as you thought so you look for another one and then you repeat, again and again...
@kappazeta @aral Brave has a bunch of problems. There's a good list @ https://aspenuwu.me/blog/dont-use-brave/ but it's older and misses stuff like:
- Eich being an anti-mask, anti-science, COVID-"skeptic" (newer than that blog post).
- Being based on Chromium is bad, as it still gives Google influence* on the web.
(* Not just directly, by driving the engine that the other Chromium-based browsers uses... but also indirectly, such as web developers getting away with not testing on anything other than Chrome.)
@garrett @kappazeta @aral
#BrendanEich’s (alleged or real) eccentricities and bigotries are orthogonal to the merits of #Brave wrt #privacy, or lack thereof. (In that vein, I’m surprised you didn’t mention Eich is also anti gay marriage — but of course that’s irrelevant here, too.)
@tripu @kappazeta @aral But, again, to be extremely clear: Even if Brave wasn't doing all sorts of bad and shady things (and it *is*): It's still a Chromium-based browser.
Using *any* Chromium based browser as your main browser is really bad for the health of the web.
Lots of people using Chrome/Chromium browsers gives way too much power to one company, Google. And they have proven several times they cannot be good stewards.
@tripu @kappazeta @aral Did you even read the link I shared before commenting about it? https://aspenuwu.me/blog/dont-use-brave/
Just like the author of that blog post, the main issues I have with Brave are mainly at a technical level.
But I also don't care for Eich being its CEO. He has contributed a lot of good for software, but also has been bad toward people.
The leader of a organization represents the organization. It's important. And it's not "alleged". It's all in the public record.
Ah well. 🤷