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

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  • Q [email protected]

    No, not directly. Not any more than your average tech leader who goes to conferences and discusses it.

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    Oh wait hey you're on my instance. Cool! We're such small one lol

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      I've used this for years and have never interacted with any crypto feature

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      It's okay, it's never too late to switch.

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        "feature" 🤮

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        Truffle Shuffle 🤮

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          I’m in a similar boat, windows for work, linux for personal.

          But since I’m freelance, it’s annoying juggling 2 computers. Just waiting for a single app to either work in wine or get a Linux port.

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          My home PC is purely for personal entertainment, so less of an issue, but there's little to no Linux support for my simrig hardware.

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          • ulrich@feddit.orgU [email protected]

            USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting.

            It's literally called a "pro", who do you think they're targeting?

            Ignore the “pro” name in any consumer electronic device.

            I do, thanks to Apple. It doesn't make it any less shameful or ridiculous.

            You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do

            You're going to have to elaborate because I already have and I don't understand what bearing that has on this discussion.

            Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for,

            You shouldn't "club them over the head", you should just stop buying their trash. That's literally the only thing that will work.

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            Daves garage actually had a good video on the shared memory architecture recently that gives some insights on why apple designed this way they did. Don’t dismiss “different” as “trash.” You sound like an idiot when you do and it makes it difficult for adults to take you seriously. PC and Mac are designed with different goals in mind, so they tend to make different choices in their engineering, and you aren’t going to like every decision either side makes.

            https://youtu.be/Cn_nKxl8KE4

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            • S [email protected]

              What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren't transphobic.

              You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I'm not a fan of Mozilla either, but that's irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.

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              Brave is the least bad chromium browser

              It's pretty sleazy. Ungoogled Chromium or Vivaldi are probably less sleazy, if at all.

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              • B [email protected]

                Interestingly, the percent of Windows goes down if you look at just the United States, where it's only 63% of OSes. And it also goes down similarly when you set it to the UK, or North America, or almost any other region. But it goes up to around 73% when you limit it to Europe or Asia. Weird, why is it higher in those areas?

                (Click "edit chart" to pick a different region)

                https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america/#monthly-202406-202506

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                Because it's mainly a measure of how much people use Macs. Apple products were always significantly more popular and "hype" in the Anglo world than anywhere else. 5,5% global vs 16% in USA, for example

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                  Very brave of them.

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                    Because it's mainly a measure of how much people use Macs. Apple products were always significantly more popular and "hype" in the Anglo world than anywhere else. 5,5% global vs 16% in USA, for example

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                    Interesting hypothesis

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                      What a title. Made me think installing the browser blocked the feature machine-wide.

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                        Interesting hypothesis

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                        Unless you're tech-savvy and actively change your OS, people just use whatever is shipped with their computer and, yea, Apple isn't nearly as popular outside of the English-speaking world as it is within it, at least when it comes to laptops. The share of Linux, and other smaller systems, is probably roughly the same.

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                          What a title. Made me think installing the browser blocked the feature machine-wide.

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                          Oh so they're just doing whatever Firefox is doing in private mode on Android that makes screenshots all black

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                          • ulrich@feddit.orgU [email protected]

                            For now it is opt-in. It's unlikely to remain that way.

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                            Also it's not like windows doesn't routinely "forgets" these settings with updates. Or harasses you to opt in again with every update, in the hopes that one day you'll let it slip

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                            • Q [email protected]

                              He invented JavaScript, so definitely don't use that either. For real. JavaScript sucks.

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                              I used to hate JS but barley had used it. Now I use it on a daily base and hate it even more.

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                                A device that surreptitiously gathers information on a target is called a bug, not a feature.

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                                  "Feature"

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                                  • D [email protected]

                                    I've used this for years and have never interacted with any crypto feature

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                                    Not interacted doesnt mean it's non-existant.
                                    It exists and therefore it's bad enough.

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                                      Truffle Shuffle 🤮

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                                      Kirby vacuuming blended spinach 🤮

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                                      • E [email protected]

                                        A device that surreptitiously gathers information on a target is called a bug, not a feature.

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                                        More like malware

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                                        • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubB [email protected]

                                          Oh wait hey you're on my instance. Cool! We're such small one lol

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                                          #114

                                          “It’s a small club and you ain’t in it”

                                          —Warren Bullgates Lincolnham

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