alt Hacker NewsI have heard from some power users that Brave is one of the best browsers with regard to ad-blocking and privacy. But I think I have read elsewhere that it receives money from ad companies to display only certain ads, which does not make me trust it. Does anyone have facts or know where to find them?
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pnw • today at 3:16 AM
Brave outperforms Firefox on the EFF fingerprinting test at https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Using Brave EFF reports that I have a randomized fingerprint.
Using Firefox or Edge EFF reports I have a unique fingerprint
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As a general role, always be suspicious of very loud and vocal opinions about product and services. Specially for closed source products and paid services, they often invest in what is called Native Advertisement/Marketing which is basically paying people to lie and pretend it is organic content/opinion.
Second, despite the dumpsterfire that Mozilla’s leadership has been in a decade or so, it is very robust with privacy and anti fingerprint features out of the box, the containers has also stabilised and works great.