Note: This setup is both for my android and pc Edit: For those recommending paid services and selfhosting, I don’t have the money nor resources for either. Also it seams some people are confusing my android setup with my PC setup so I’ll write it down. Android: Brave(movies) + Ironfox, Search: Brave + DDG, VPN: Proton ( not always on), GPay = Cash, Auth= Aegis Auth, Pass: KeepassDX, PC: Firefox= Librewolf, VPN = No VPN (VERY slow internet), Search: Searxng + DDG, Pass: KeepassXC,
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My first thought was “what app is that?”
I actually despise cash, but I might go back to it just for privacy.
I have not once seen a picture like this, and “guide” ones, that doesn’t have several glaring issues.
This one started really good, then brave pops up, then proton, then AI…Why is it so fucking hard to look up the stuff you’re using? How are you aware of several of these that are not well known yet somehow not aware of how bad brave is? It’s just so weird every single time.
Brave is fine.
For the record it’s not. It’s a chrome variant with a crypto bro ad company skin on top.
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I’m assuming it’s because of that one time the Proton CEO endorsed or appeared to endorse Trump. If it’s more than that I’m interested in the answer too.
There’s a whole section for controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Mail
Another good gmail alternative is kmail. Another good WhatsApp alternative is matrix. Change organic maps to comaps, it is fork of it but community focused. Another google photos alternative is aves, much better than fossify gallery. When using obtanium, you might want to install appverifier to check if app is legit. Another YouTube alternatives are peertube and odysee. Brave is bad, its CEO likes crypto and ai. Mullvad vpn is good vpn, you can also use tor. Instead of google wallet you can use curve wallet or upcoming Walt. Also, good alternative to google search is 4get
Fairmail
Fairmail is bad, Thunderbird is much better
If you use a Chromium Browser there is Vivaldi, instead of GDrive, Filen is good, but kDrive or Murena fit it better (both including online Office and workspace, EU), for YT there is also Aluga, AI > Andisearch, Sketchapedia, WhatsApp > SecureBit Chat, Google Photos > vgy.me
I tried Kdrive but unfortunately its only for EU citizens.
Vivaldi has essentially no fingerprinting protection, and it also inserts affiliate links by default without your constent.
Yes and no, it use affiliate links and search engines (DDG, Startpage, Ecosia…) which pay some money if you use these, but you can delete these without problems if not. Vivaldi use this to create incommings, instead of selling user data and browser logs to third parties as other do. Fingerprints, well, it protects some fingerprints which are an privacy risk, but spoofing all can break some webs. Fingerprint protection is always an balance between what is necessary (eg. tecnical data to show correctly a page, eg your screen resolution) and what is not. Your Public IP is always shown in any browser, if you don’t use an VPN (Proton VPN inbuild in Vivaldi) or Proxy, but the public IP only show the one of the server used by your ISP which can be hundreds of km from your real location, but it made that the page is shown in your lenguage (if it has this feature). If a website use Fingerprinting (not often), it use those from the whole device and OS, not only from the browser. Vivaldi never logs your activity or track you, never share your data with third parties, no third party sponsors in Vivaldi. Sync is encrypted end2end, no knowledge (if you loose your encryption password, you loose your sync data!!!). stored in own servers in Iceland (green energy). IMHO Vivaldi is pretty private.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/shared-networks-tracking-fingerprinting/
It uses “direct match” by default which inserts affiliate links when you type in a shopping site and press enter. It is opt-out, not opt-in.
dont use brave
Thoughts on Vivaldi?
Just use Firefox with uBlock Origin and PrivacyBadger.
Firefox needs to add tab groups on mobile first
uBlock and Privacy Badger should not be used together.
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Still a proprietary black box you shouldn’t trust and chromium based so you reinforce the chromium monopoly
Why is vivaldi helping a chromium monopoly?
I understand it is based on chrome tech, and I guess that means it can use chrome extensions maybe? But how does it help chrome if people use it?
It uses Google’s browser engine called Chromium, which Chrome is based on. A lot of websites made to just function well on Chromium and maybe Safari
A lot of websites are made to just function well on Chromium and maybe Safari
Isn’t that more on the site creators? I have a handful of sites and web apps I don’t have a choice to simply avoid because of job-related requirements. I’ve tried a bunch of other approaches, but keeping a Chromium browser installed has, so far, been the least painful way to get through my normal work days.
That’s on corporate sites just saving work or intentionally obstructing and restricting Firefox because Google basically a monopoly.
For me personally Firefox (and it’s engine Gecko) work fine for 99% of websites I visit.
With the market share of Chrome and Chrome-derived browsers Google basically single-handedly decides how the web works. They decide to implement some functionality, everybody needs to do the same, every other browser “vendor” has to implement it as well now. The consortium deciding about it theoretically is a fig leaf at that point.
Agreed, but occasionally I have to use a site that doesn’t work properly on Firefox-based browsers. I mostly use Cromite to deal with that, but want a backup in case Cromite dies like its predecessor Bromite did.
have you tried to fake user-agent with Firefox? Most shitty sites I encountered which pull that off just do it for no reason whatsoever. They work perfectly fine in Firefox disguised as Chrome.
Firefox is my daily drive and I use Ungoogled Chromium for the rare times Firefox doesn’t work
Ty - I’ll give UC a try.
If Firefox doesn’t work I just click away
Can you tell me why? I found out ddg was just repackage bing results so I’ve been trying brave for now.
Here’s a good summary of some of the shady practices that they’ve done by way of @cannedtuna@lemmy.world. It’s a summary of this article: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
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- Brendan Eich donated to anti-LGBT political organizations, politicians, and initiatives such as CA Prop 8 which banned same-sex marriages.
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- Brave promised to replace ads with privacy friendly ads that would actually pay publishers and even users with a volatile cryptocurrency while keeping a cut for themselves. This never actually came to life and was criticized as “blatantly illegal”.
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- Brave collected donations for popular content creators without actually involving or seeking consent from said creators. In short they accepted donations in crypto for creators, but would only pay out if it reached a minimum value of $100. When called out, Brave said refunds were impossible.
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2020 — Brave injects referral links when visiting crypto wallets
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- Brave injected their own referral links for services such as Binance without informing users or asking permission.
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- Brave turned their home screen image rotator into a place to serve ads, many of which were suspicious or crypto related.
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- Brave added a Tor feature which exposed users DNS requests
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- Brave refuses to disclose their crawler bot to websites since many websites want to block Brave Search. Brave will only chose not to crawl a website if it also blocks Google’s crawler.
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2024 - So-called “privacy browser” deprecated advanced fingerprinting protection
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- Brave removed a the Strict, Block Fingerprinting privacy feature from their browser.
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- Brave paid for targeted ads for users searching for Firefox in the Play Store and ran a campaign to “Forget the Fox”. When called out on this the VP publicly denied it and claimed it was photo-shopped.
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- The VP of Brave, Luke Mulks, frequently posts about all things crypto, from NFTs to FTX, and uses AI-gen images to promote them. He also frequently re-tweets right-wing activists.
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- Brendan Eich’s feed also frequently contains right-wing content and Republican propaganda despite his claims to be “independent”.
I jumped onboard in the beginning (2016?) when they would show you “tailored” ads in exchange for their crypto. I made about $30 or so before I got bored of the endless crypto scam ads, despite having that category disabled.
Then came the referral link scandal, and I went back to FF until I found Librewolf.
2026 - “pay $60 to REMOVE our bloat features”
Oh? I haven’t used their browser since ~2018, good to know that I continue to have made the right decision. I now use librewolf on my desktop and IronFox on my phone
It includes a lot of crypto bullshit, and I believe the founder is a right wing weirdo, but don’t quote me on that.
To also point out the good stuff: their browser has some pretty good anti-fingerprinting and privacy measures build in.
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This, I cringe when Brave and privacy end up in the same sentence. They’re shady af
Bro…
LibreTub
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Don’t agree with a lot of them. Like choosing Brave. Please do a critical search on it.
And the most private mail, is either a self host, or a mail hotel… And then something like Thunderbird. You can host your own calendar there too… Because Fossify Calendar don’t host your calendars.
Don’t use AI…
And Arch is certainly not for everyone. Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu and the likes are a lot better.
Firefox has a great Password manager, if you are one of the poor sods, who can’t remember all your unique passwords. ;-)
Signal is Trump/fascism supporters… Shouldn’t use that either…
Signal supports Trump? Source? I know the trump administration uses Signal, but that’s like saying Air supports Trump because he also breathes air.
I’ve noticed that people who even look at anyone who is right-wing are accused of being pro-Trump on Lemmy. It’s getting really dumb.
Good for you. What does that have to do with what I write?
I’ve been using arch for a year now, but i think I will go with Debian soon.
I’ve been thinking of an alternative to signal but other than simplex I can’t find any
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Good choices. Congrats
Very nice. Only complaint is this only existing as a jpeg rather than a vector svg.
What’s the difference?
Another thread with commenters suffering from Brave Derangement Syndrome.
Your usage of derangement syndrome is a perfect analogy to how it’s used with Trump. People within the cult can’t see a reason people would dislike something/someone so it has to be a “syndrome”, it’s the only thing that makes sense if you’re unwilling to challenge your beliefs.
Brave 🤮
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Arch Linux -> Tailscale -> Jellyfin.
