Brave Spyware Level High

Brave Brave Browser is a Chromium fork with many interesting features not found elsewhere, such as built-in Adblock and other extensions, fingerprint protection, a cleaner Preferences menu compared to other Chrome forks, and the (opt-in) ability to automatically support (pay) the websites you visit. The developers describe it as "A browser with your interests at heart." [1] with the built-in privacy protections. Spyware Level: High Brave is self updating software, uses Google as the default search engine, has built-in telemetry, and even has an opt-out rss-like news feed similar to Firefox Pocket. These shouldn't be the things that come to mind if someone were to imagine a privacy oriented browser. Auto-updates Brave will check for updates every time you run it, and you can't turn it off from the browser. Although, it's on Brave's low priority list to add an option to do so. [2] The reason why it's low priority would be because it's been over a year and there hasn't been an implementation of it yet. Brave has built-in telemetry While running, Brave will make lots of requests to the domain p3a.brave.com as telemetry. They claim they store the collected data for several days. [3] This feature is an opt-out that can be disabled. This opt-out can be disabled here.

A dark, text-heavy meme presents the Brave browser with its orange lion logo and sarcastically labels it “Spyware Level: High.” The joke criticizes Brave’s privacy-focused branding by pointing out its use of Google, telemetry, automatic updates, and other tracking-related features. It is shared as a reaction when mocking Brave’s claims of privacy or warning that the browser may be less private than it appears.

• @gentoomemes / 5692 2023-08-06