Saw this in my adguard home query logs.

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    It’s more private but doesn’t have 0 telemetry. You can disable some telemetry in settings. But it still has to make requests for update checks if using Windows or MacOS.

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      I’m a grown adult and can check for updates my own damn self. This phone-home telemetry in the guise of updating bullshit needs to stop

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    even tho most low level searches and recommendations gonna point towards brave as the private browser, all you need to just look at the options. its datafarming, its running in the background randomly, its an nftbro chrome.

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    You can disable this in the settings. Nobara ships with Brave now but with all of the telemetry and crypto BS turned off out of the box.

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      It’s a shame this is necessary, to be honest. It’s the same argument with Windows users: “you can just run a debloater and fiddle with the registry to disable tracking”. It shouldn’t be needed in the first place.

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        I don’t think you can say the same as MS plays shitty cat and mouse games and is constantly patching the workarounds. And the changes required are much more involved than just toggling a switch. And Brave won’t randomly toggle it back on after an update or just blatantly ignore it altogether.

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    You can stop it in settings just like any other browser. I still will use Brave as my choice of browsers.

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    From Wiki:

    Brave Software was founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and former Mozilla CEO who left the organization after coming under fire for his support of eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry […]

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    In August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund […]

    Should tell you everything you need to know.

    I’d say being ‘privacy focused’ is just a stick to get non-tech savy/gullible people that want to protect their privacy to use i, without thinking about it twice. Personally, I believe there is 0% chance they don’t sell (or simply give) all data they can to Peter Thiel and Palantir.

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      …also to Facebook, also one of the investors. Brave has good privacy protections, but they are selective.

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    Just use Firefox for gods sakes, Brave is a complete joke of a browser especially when it comes to privacy.

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    Depends on what you mean by “private”. I would not trust it much, but it’s not a bad Chromium based browser when you need one. Use something like LibreWolf for much more privacy out of the box.

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      For the best privacy when you do need a Chromium-based browser, the ungoogled-chromium flatpak is an excellent choice.

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      It boggles my mind how people still recommend Brave as a good browser for privacy.
      The entire point of Brave from the beginning was their own Crypto currency that they wanted to shill.
      In their early days they offered a bunch of Tech YouTubers some crypto (via affiliate links) in return for them shilling brave.

      Brave is basically just yet another Chromium reskin with custom branding, extra tracking and crypto bullshit bolted to it.
      No, the builtin AdBlocker does not make it “worth it”. Stop recommending this pile of crap.

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    I tend to recommend Brave for the ones who aren’t technically savvy. For that, its good.

    For me who is really into privacy, I’ve always felt uncomfortable with brave or any chrome based browser. So I go with TOR and LibreWolf

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    Don’t a lot of browsers by default have pings set up to track usage? Check the privacy section. There is usually a check box about sending daily pings to whatever company made the browser to track usage.

    Not sure about the variations though

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      Any browser does it, it is needed for several reasons, every browser need to know the amount of users it has to calculate it’s market share. But statistical telemetries are not a privacy issue, it’s like an employee which count the amount of cars and trucks on a highway, to know if it is needed to enlarge the highway or not. A browser need to know it for its capacity of servers and sync, if they offer it. Normally the telemetries includes in which OS is used the browser and in which country, all this is legit and not a privacy problem.

      Bad only when it also include logs and profiling of user data and activity, as Chrome and EDGE do, and worse if this is sold to third parties. Decent browser don’t do it.