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

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

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

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                            Well, not really, a bug is unintentional. Even calling it a design flaw is a stretch, it's a feature that isn't for your benefit.

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                            • ulrich@feddit.orgU [email protected]

                              That would be totally true if every software was distributed as a flatpak and every distro had flatpak enabled in the package manager out of the box. That's just not reality.

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                              I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.

                              Also the original comment says “the whole OS is not ready for the general public”, which is also vague. I don’t expect the “general public” to install Gentoo and suffer from this issue.

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                              • O [email protected]

                                Sadly, quite a few things. Here's a few:

                                • Application support; some popular software is built with Windows in mind.
                                • One-click installers; Software usually comes with user-friendly installation wizards. No command lines or dependency juggling. Also better compatibility woth past versions
                                • Driver availability; Linux is getting better, but Windows is superior
                                • Better peripheral support like for printers, webcams, game controllers.
                                • Gaming performance; although Linux is gaining ground, Windows is just better in this regard
                                • Media codecs and formats; again, Linux is getting better, but this isn't always an out-of-the-box experience
                                • Business integration; Windows plays nicely with enterprise tools like Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and legacy business apps.

                                Don't get me wrong. I use Linux as my daily driver. That also means I get frustrated on occasion when again I must consult man pages instead of just running a troubleshooter or fiddling with Nvidia drivers instead of just running the game.

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                                • Driver availability; Linux is getting better, but Windows is superior

                                Doesn't Linux have pretty much every driver built into the kernel with the only notable exception being the NVIDIA closed source drivers. Even those drivers are a single command away from installation, it even configures itself correctly out of the box for Wayland support.

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                                  I use Linux regularly, and the last time i installed an app was probably within the past 365 days

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                                  Ah. I see. That’s very informative.

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                                  • P [email protected]

                                    More like malware

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                                    yup. how do people continue using Winblows 😕

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                                    • S [email protected]

                                      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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                                      then people can complained it on Brave Github or their official forum and it will be fixed by their team

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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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                                        It's not a bug, it's a feature we don't like 🤣

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                                        • N [email protected]

                                          What's easier in Windows compared to Linux? Except the fact that you have to install it, since it doesn't come preinstalled on as many PCs. But many people who think Windows is easy would probably still consider installing it difficult.

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                                          it's easier because they've been using it all their life. If they'd been using linux all their life, they'd say that windows was too hard to use, nod oubt.

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