Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
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Honestly it largely is.
I mean, by definition, it isn't.
It's anonymous and not malicious in nature. It's a diagnostic and engagement measuring tool.
And how do you know it's not malicious in nature? I'd like to know what your definition of "malicious" is if you're just fine with letting a Corpo run system look at everything you're doing.
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It's not, but it's also not spyware - it's local, encrypted, AND optional.
Optional like how it reminds me every 3 days that it wants my info for "customization" purposes, and I can only sleep the notification for another 3 days instead of telling it to fuck off?
They have been so predatory, at this point no one should see anything they do as benefiting end users.
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MacOS isn't terrible, only the hardware is.
I despise their business model, their design decisions, and their walled garden. I will agree that the OS is fine. I was forced to use a MacBook at a software development job in the past. It being UNIX was a big point why I didn't immediately hate it. I will still agree with the other users and say that their hardware is pretty nice and well thought-out (not praising the anti-consument measures like soldered RAM). Still, I would personally never buy their devices due to the aforementioned business practices.
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What feature? Recall?? That's Windows 11-specific and hasn't even launched yet??
I love this comment so much
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OK, you need to explain to me how tf does Linux block something that works only on Windows.
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Let me know when it is discovered that they in fact replaced MS Recall with their own version that was scraping your data in yet another sketchy attempt to make money.
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What if they always decline cookies? Or is this cookie one of those necessary ones?
Someone who used Linux would know that
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The post itself is reasonable quality and informative so I find it upvote worthy. If a post is low quality or a shit post then I downvote.
To me the karma system is about quality. Not an "I agree/disagree" button.
For comments I only down vote obvious trolls, bigots/racism etc.
The problem is that people routinely upvote bullshit, falsehoods, and flat out disinformation. Just because it was well written does not make it true.
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It's not, but it's also not spyware - it's local, encrypted, AND optional.
Actual optional things are disabled by default.
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Microsoft is known for making things “optional” at first then eventually forcing it down everyone’s throats. Removing offline accounts is one of them.
It’s not so much the technology itself is malware, but its behavior replicates that of malware.
Yes hello John Windows my microwave account name is Oobe\bypassnro
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yeah but it's run by an active opponent of LGBT folks
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I can install apps well enough, but I'm very techie, the general population isn't gonna be able to do it reasonably
You don’t need to be “techie” to install stuff from a package manager with a GUI. People use app stores on every mobile device out there and they don’t have any problems with that
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I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.
They don't all have that either
And yet they all have a package manager of some kind to install packages from. It doesn’t have to be Flatpak specifically
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Yes hello John Windows my microwave account name is Oobe\bypassnro
This also works:
shift-F10 before you get to the network configuration, then type this and press enter
start ms-cxh:localonlyFor either method, if you configure networking during setup, e.g. plug in an ethernet cable or give it the wi-fi password, it'll keep returning to the online account screen. You need to do it prior to network config.
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it has better anti fingerprinting than firefox? That's nice to know
wrote last edited by [email protected]oh yea i used pixel scan or something similar, ban evaders use these to check thier browser profile, and it partially shields it. there other similar browser scanners, but the thing is you also need proxies and anti-detect browsers to hide the rest of your activities, because reddit is just that invasive in detection.(hence all those bans.
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Simplewall allows direct control of internet access of any program and app; you can block CoPilot from accessing the internet.
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I’ve noticed this on political posts too, among others and I’ve wondered the same thing.
I upvote posts that I think are worth being seen by more people. That includes posts about topics that I don’t like or agree with, but think people need to know is happening and I think to know that are not including disinformation or misinformation or opinion written as facts.
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I'm pretty sure if Firefox/Mozilla decides to change their policy on something, most forks of firefox will have no choice but follow the same path
afaik all firefox forks are really small, just like chromium forks
Mozilla might not have as much conflicting interests though, I admit it
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Gecko is still way more sympathetic than chromium, to me. Even if it is not perfect either.
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Sometimes bad people do good things.
I would not call brave good..
