Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
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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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Except:
- Most of them are bundled terribly, forcing you to use flatseal or similar to make it work - way to much to do and understand for the average user
- Roughly half of all the programs I install are flatpaks, and the other half are appimages. They both largely work the same, but the fact that there's a difference will be crippling to the average user. Especially if you ask them to choose between one or the other
- Believe it or not, a lot of people are not comfortable with the app store mentality flatpak seems built around. Googling "chrome download" is far more ingrained in the average person. Aside from browsers and projects of similar scope, this is difficult to achieve on linux
Can 800 year old grandma Doris use the feature? Can the average person who writes comments on YouTube videos? Minion meme posting facebook aunts? If not, it's not ready for mainstream.
While I agree with most of what you said, typical users won’t run into these issues unless they’re doing something more technical (e.g installing blender or something), in which case they can ask for help.
Can 800 year old grandma Doris use the feature? Can the average person who writes comments on YouTube videos? Minion meme posting facebook aunts? If not, it's not ready for mainstream.
I don’t think these people can install Windows or are pros at using it either, and in which case it’s the responsibility of whoever installed the OS to guide them through it a little like I did with my parents (they’re in their 80s and they’ve been using Linux for the past five years just fine), and I imagine those kind of people to only care about browsing the web and maybe viewing a PDF every once in a while.
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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
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'll admit
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..
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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.
They could, but Disney..
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The only two there that bother me are the affiliate code thing (reminds me of the Honey drama) and installing extra software without consent. The first was a bad call and probably related with how their ad replacement stuff works (if anything, they should merely axe affiliate links; Firefox has that as an option), and this"solution" to the latter is pretty odd to me:
reinstall the browser without admin rights
Why would a browser need admin rights in the first place? I haven't used Windows in well over a decade, so I don't think that particular one would be an issue for me.
The rest can be grouped as:
- bugs - bug fixes generally don't get prioritized until enough users complain; I would be very picky if I was an at risk person (activist or whatever) and would probably only use Tor browser
- opt-in services
- their marketing department
My options for chromium browsers are:
- something with ineffective ad blocking
- Opera - I used it before it became a chromium browser, then it went downhill; not FOSS
- Brave, with all its warts
Since ad blocking and FOSS are my prerequisites, Brave basically wins by default.
Just block with unlock
why choose browser based on a ad block feature that is worse (injecting own ads/adware and therefore trying to dictate who is allowed to grab your attention) than the ad blocking extension?I recommend Firefox, due to best compatibility with uBlock (fuck manifest v3) and additionally have a DNS filter in your network, like pihole or adguard.
On the go, use wireguard VPN to always be digitally home, and get your ads blocked (as well as tracking organisations) like that.
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While I agree with most of what you said, typical users won’t run into these issues unless they’re doing something more technical (e.g installing blender or something), in which case they can ask for help.
Can 800 year old grandma Doris use the feature? Can the average person who writes comments on YouTube videos? Minion meme posting facebook aunts? If not, it's not ready for mainstream.
I don’t think these people can install Windows or are pros at using it either, and in which case it’s the responsibility of whoever installed the OS to guide them through it a little like I did with my parents (they’re in their 80s and they’ve been using Linux for the past five years just fine), and I imagine those kind of people to only care about browsing the web and maybe viewing a PDF every once in a while.
I've seen many a tech-illiterate people try to install things they want on their computer - games mostly. Steam is rather painless these days, thankfully. But things like Solitaire, or maybe some emulator (which admittedly requires a minimal technical knowhow, but see the "make an exe and give it to me" meme) will be difficult for the average user.
Sure, if it's an older relative, they could ask you for help. On windows they'd most likely not have to.
I don’t think these people can install Windows or are pros at using it either
Just to be clear, I'm talking about a "What if" scenario where its possible to buy a computer with linux preinstalled, similarly to how you can buy one with windows.
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So, you're saying that browsing history, in literally any browser on the market, is a bug not a feature?
surreptitiously
Oh, wait, I actually missed that! How is something that you need to purposefully turn on "surreptitious"? Like... Holy fuck, people, this is supposed to be the community of tech-literate people, so maybe stop fear-mongering in read about Recall a bit? It's opt-in, it's limited to a (as of now) extremely small number of NPU-carrying devices, it's offline.
If you don't like it, just don't fucking turn it on.
It's a good thing that microsoft is trustworthy and you can believe everything they say. And that malware never misuses resources of the system on which it is installed.
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Just block with unlock
why choose browser based on a ad block feature that is worse (injecting own ads/adware and therefore trying to dictate who is allowed to grab your attention) than the ad blocking extension?I recommend Firefox, due to best compatibility with uBlock (fuck manifest v3) and additionally have a DNS filter in your network, like pihole or adguard.
On the go, use wireguard VPN to always be digitally home, and get your ads blocked (as well as tracking organisations) like that.
I recommend Firefox
So do I, that's my main. Brave is my backup for the handful of sites that don't like Firefox.
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It's a good thing that microsoft is trustworthy and you can believe everything they say. And that malware never misuses resources of the system on which it is installed.
Recall sits in a secure vault behind BitLocker encryption secured with Windows Hello.
BitLocker+Windows Hello gets broken through, the world has a much larger problem than some screenshots, because that's the foundation of, like, 80% of enterprise security.
If you're afraid that an attacker sits on your PC and just waits for you to unlock the vault, then you already have the PC breached to the point where they don't have to do that, they already have access to everything else.
If you're afraid of the feature in anyway, don't use it.
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Actual optional things are disabled by default.
So you're saying you haven't bothered to read about Recall at all, you just assumed it's going to be enabled by default?
