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

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  • C [email protected]

    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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        • moe90@feddit.nlM [email protected]
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          A device that surreptitiously gathers information on a target is called a bug, not a feature.

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          • moe90@feddit.nlM [email protected]
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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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              • T [email protected]

                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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                    • frellwit@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

                      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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                      Vivaldi is not open source, so for me it doesn't count as a valid option.

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                      • moe90@feddit.nlM [email protected]
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                        Unfortunately that would involve using the Brave browser, which is an antifeature in itself.

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                        • frellwit@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

                          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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                          I‘m not even pro Brave but all that ad stuff is opt-in so it doesn‘t matter as long as you don‘t want to see ads. The arguments in this thread are starting to just loop in circles. Essentially using Brave is fine if you stick to the default. There‘s no sleazy stuff if you don‘t enable it and the CEO also doesn‘t make a dime from you if that‘s something you‘re concerned about. You could of course use a different chromium browser if you want but it‘s virtually the same thing.

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                          • thann@lemmy.dbzer0.comT [email protected]

                            Actually it does! When youre installing, just delete the windows boot partition and your done!

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                            Heck, wipe the entire disk!

                            (based on a real life experience)

                            (windows just kept standing no matter what partition i deleted so i wiped the disk clean)

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                            • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksM [email protected]

                              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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                              Shared memory is different to unified memory, AMD's got an implementation of the later with their "Ryzen AI MAX+" (ugh) systems, does quite well in benchmarks.

                              It also doesn't hurt that Apple puts the RAM on the SoC and gives it a truckload of bandwidth. DDR5 is about 70GB/s, meanwhile the M4 Max is around 540GB/s.

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                                They haven't blocked the windows feature, they're using DRM to interfere with it. Microsoft could easily change how the DRM works any time they want, rendering all these hacks useless.

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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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                                  JS is difficult to avoid. Brave is easy to avoid, just use another browser.

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                                  • timewarp@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                                    Brave's CEO is a homophobic Trump supporter. No thanks.

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                                    #122

                                    He could be next husband of Ivanka Trump - I don't care

                                    If he provide good service for me - browser which fits my needs. I would even send him money every day

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                                    • S [email protected]

                                      I don't, my OS doesn't come with any nonsense.

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                                      Me neither, I just watch the shit show from the bleachers.

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                                        He could be next husband of Ivanka Trump - I don't care

                                        If he provide good service for me - browser which fits my needs. I would even send him money every day

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                                        That's the logic of as long as it benefits ME I don't care and I support them no matter what they do. This same logic has been applied to all the shitty things done in history like slavery, war and so forth, and the reason the world is the way it is.

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                                        • S [email protected]

                                          He could be next husband of Ivanka Trump - I don't care

                                          If he provide good service for me - browser which fits my needs. I would even send him money every day

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                                          "I'll support fascism as long as it's convenient for me"

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