BadgerInATrenchcoat @ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat@social.privacytools.io

@Wetrix @romina If you don't like Google then its all the more reason to give it a shot. Firefox actually contains notably more Google code and makes many more connections to google ootb than Brave or especially Ungoogled Chromium (as UGC doesn't connect anywhere unless you want it to.)

Like you said, to each their own. Have a nice rest of your day.

@GNUxeava @enigmatico @saina@mastodon.online @thatbrickster I was referring to you saying messages, and was simply elaborating on your statement.

@GNUxeava @enigmatico @saina@mastodon.online @thatbrickster No, they can't read your messages or listen to your calls, it's still encrypted. They just collect and monetize the metadata, which is albeit sometimes just as valuable if not more.

@saina@mastodon.online Facebook will still steal your soul. They have been exchanging and sharing user data ever since the buyout. You should be under no assumption of privacy when using WhatsApp.

@romina Of course! Good luck!

@Wetrix @romina Brave, Firefox, and Ungoogled Chromium are all FOSS browsers, Firefox is no different in that regard.

I mean, security is hard to metricize without much more detail, but if you're referring to it being closed source, then again, its totally foss.

Read my other comment on syncing.

While I haven't personally tried it, I've heard great things. It also (supposedly) works on Ungoogled Chromium (which is even way better than Brave for privacy and security) with zero problems, which would make the whole experience just that much more seamless. I've found that Ungoogled Chromium's RAM and CPU usage hasn't been anything that I didn't see on Firefox, that said, my testing has been anything but scientific.

I hope this helped, have a great rest of your day!

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@romina Something I forgot to include is that I used Firefox for seven years, so I have a decent amount of experience with it and I get it, it was so very difficult to give up the syncing between my different devices after using it for so long. While I eventually got used to it and everything, you might not have to. I recently found a plugin with stellar reviews called "xBrowserSync" (to be clear, not an ad.) No sign up, e2ee, bookmark syncing, bookmark tagging, no collected data.
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@Wetrix I mean the same can be said about Firefox.

2. Nope. Firefox is irreparably and inexcusably worse for security than any Chromium based browser, its not even close. It can't even be considered enough for the normal person.

8. Due to all of the tweaking you need to do that you think makes the browser more private and more secure, in reality makes the browser less private and hardly changes the security.

The list goes on and on.

To be clear, I'm not saying that Brave is some perfect browser, its not, I'm just saying its a hell of a lot more private and secure than Firefox. This privacy and security increase is amplified tenfold with Ungoogled Chromium.

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4. Sponsored top sites and search results.

5. They use Google as the hard coded geolocation provider and never disclosed it to users.

6. They made a huge deal with Google to continue to "fund the browser", but what it's really for is insurance that Mozilla will continue to add Google into Firefox at every turn.

7. If you use Firefox Focus, they collect and transmit telemetry data to a very large and invasive third party data holder and handler, Adjust GMBH.

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@Wetrix So in your opinion, everything that Firefox and Mozilla have done combined is better than one small crypto scandal that didn't really affect anyone privacy wise?

Firefox:

1. They're the second worst browser for privacy out of the box only behind Chrome.

2. Firefox is extremely insecure no matter what you.

3. On multiple occasions they've added telemetry that can't be disabled to sometimes a large amount of users, and other times a smaller subset, either way it's a problem.

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