Every few months there’s something new coming up about that browser. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of shady stuff:
- Manipulating search results to show ads
- Releasing Pay-to-surf with extensive tracking
- Blocking ads from companies only when they haven’t paid them not to
- Gathering data about other installed browsers
- Crypto scam (yes, it was a scam, they stopped doing payouts)
- Profiling user habits and selling that data to advertisers
- Buying reviews
Of course, there’s more.
As far as I know. Firefox still doesn’t do any of those things, either.
Firefox has built-in ads (that you can disable) on the home page.
Not as hot garbage as Brave cryptoscamming and replacing ads with their own and hijacking affiliate links, but it might be of interest if you want to try Firefox.
I haven’t used Brave for many years because I knew about all their shady shit years ago. Everyone knew if they bothered to just read about it.
Yeah Brave is hot garbage
Brave doing shady stuff? Who could have imagined?? /s
@hhj The more you find out about them, the worse they get.
Who’da thunk a browser made around crypto shit would do such a thing. I only use this browser on my phone because of the ad blocking to open links people send me, I should just get something else. Does mobile Firefox get proper ad blocking?
Check out https://nextdns.io/ it’s a privacy focused dns resolver but it also lets you include blocklists at the dns level which are the same lists used by stuff like ublock origin. That’ll block adds and trackers at the dns level before they even hit your device. I’ve had it on my android and iOS devices for years. It will even block most stuff in apps as well.
if you’re using android, mull is supposed to be the good privacy fork of firefox
i think it has ad-blocking but i do ad blocking through my router anyway, so idk for sure
They’re shady? I’m shocked.
Shocking! Or not!
Shady browser continues to do shady stuff, news at 11. /s
Oh no! Anyways…
