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moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Windows Recall remains controversial a year after its announcement. Now, the Brave browser has taken new measures to "protect" users from the feature.
  • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    The fact that the dev behind brave is a homophobe isn’t opt in though…

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      Also, their whole business model was (is?) just replacing ads with ads they get paid for.

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        Sure, but that’s opt-in. By default, it just blocks ads.

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        Uh… no? It just puts sponsored backgrounds when you open new tabs or windows notifications if you opt-in

        It never replaced ads in websites afaik

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          https://ads.brave.com/

          They’re not actively replacing elements on a web page, but they’re still getting paid to show you ads and you can opt in for some crypto nonsense.

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            Sure, so? It’s still opt-in, and by default it sends the generated crypto money to creators and websites you visit

            If you don’t like it, don’t enable it? They’re pretty transparent about how it works overall

            They have pretty much abandoned this feature anyways

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      Sure, that sucks, but the product is good

      You can’t always agree with everyone

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      deleted by creator

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        That’s saying that he left Mozilla for that. He’s still CEO of Brave

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          Can’t believe this poor reading comprehension is getting upvoted.

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            What’s amazing is they proved themselves wrong in their own post, thinking they proved themselves right. It’s actually impressive.

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              Tbh kinda explains why they use Brave

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              You don’t see it everyday that’s for sure.

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                That’s pretty par for the course for Internet arguments in my experience. Then they get all huffy after you explain why their source doesn’t say what they claimed and try to complain that because you didn’t supply a source, they’re still right.

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                  Indeed. The <“I’m right. There’s plenty of sources that back me up, do your own research” then fail to provide sources> crowd are my personal pet peeve.

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          Thanks.

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        He left Mozilla (chased out because he’s a homophobe) and went on to found Brave, where he still remains

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          Ah, thank you for the clarification.

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        Did you even read the text you shared? It just says he left mozilla.

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          I did, just made a mistake. Thank you and have a pleasant afternoon.

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