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Warning to all Brave Browser Users (infosec.exchange)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by voxel@infosec.exchange to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Warning to all Brave Browser Users

Blocking variations.brave.com which is used for A/B testing could potentially break Brave's functionalities. For me did Brave's "forgetful browsing" feature broke which seems to be disabled by default if you block this domain.

#brave #bravebrowser #privacy @privacy @privacyguides

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[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For incognito browsing I recommend Librewolf, a firefox fork. If you want anything more secure, you should start looking into tor

[–] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is librewolf superior to our of the box Firefox? Or mullvad browser for that matter?

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

It has included some privacy measures to resist fingerprinting like letterboxing and has more privacy focused search engines as default like searx. Also it takes out some firefox utilities like pocket which I don't really use

As for Mullwav browser I'm not really sure, it seems to be another reinforced firefox like librewolf

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

any benefits over Mullvad's browser?

https://mullvad.net/browser

[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Btw, here is a detailed, technical review. It is in German, but with transtae and all the code, it should be understandable.

TLDR: It's good.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not really sure, I haven't used it. In fairness, I only use librewolf for incognito searches, not as a daily driver

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

i prefer to use librewolf as my everyday browser, while using mullvad as my browser for other things that dont require tor i like to keep things separated, personally