{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/649","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/649/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/649/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/649/events","html_url":"https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/649","id":388408653,"node_id":"MDU6SXNzdWUzODg0MDg2NTM=","number":649,"title":"❌ Software Removal | Brave is adware","user":{"login":"ciampolo","id":33424269,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjMzNDI0MjY5","avatar_url":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/33424269?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo","html_url":"https://github.com/ciampolo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ciampolo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":513226893,"node_id":"MDU6TGFiZWw1MTMyMjY4OTM=","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/labels/%E2%9D%8C%20software%20removal","name":"❌ software removal","color":"fef2c0","default":false}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":13,"created_at":"2018-12-06T21:37:44Z","updated_at":"2018-12-08T22:42:32Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"## Description\r\n\r\nI saw the other issue but that I didn't have any technical reasoning so I wanted to make a distinct issue. If you think this is wrong then please merge it.\r\n\r\nThe reason I see people initially added Brave to the list is because of Brave advertising itself as having \"fingerprinting protection\". The tracking protection is irrelevant since umatrix/ublock are way more mature and feature rich than Braves own one (which is pretty emberassing since those are simple webextensions made by a private person). Also quick remainder that Firefox has working protection against fingerprinting, tracking and zombie cookies which are toggled by just setting flags to true. \r\n\r\nIf you actually run fingerprinting/zombie scripts on Brave you will realize that it's easier to fingerprint than a stock Google Chrome. This is due to Brave having no relevant amount user base in combiniation with leaking lots of information (fonts, content Size, window decoration size, JS  timings, JS audio api, and many more) which (appearently intentionally) does not get fixed (or the devs are incompetent, you decide).\r\n\r\nI think people here seem to forget that Brave's purpose is to hijack ads, not to protect you. \r\nAlso Brave is a Chromium fork which already should exclude it from the list. A chromium based Browser cannot offer protection against fingerprinting/zombie cookies etc.. Just look at the Tor explanation. And if you don't want to protect against those kind of stuff you can just use Chromium itself. Or even Vivaldi since that one actually has useful features compared to Brave. Vivaldi doesn't try to hijack ads, nor does it advertise itself with blatant lies like Brave does. Also it is EU based, again contrary to Brave. Though obviously neither Brave nor Vivaldi should be on this list.\r\n\r\nHonestly you'd be better of using stock Google Chrome (yes Chrome, not Chromium) before you use Brave since Chrome has a much larger user base and does not attempt to provide \"fingerprinting protection\" while still leaking 90% of fp vectors as Brave does. It heavily undermines the credibility of privacytools in my opinion.\r\n\r\nI'd really like to hear techincal reasoning to include Brave, a browser that increases entropy and as thus does the opposite of providing \"privacy\" on such a privacy-focused list instead of saying \"it advertises itself as having fingerprinting protection\". Tbh I think the actual objective of Brave is to gain users, fool them into thinking it actually protects them and then sell all the data to the advertisers. You don't need to build in any backdoor into the browser if you can fingerprint them that easily."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/comments/445495406","html_url":"https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/649#issuecomment-445495406","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/649","id":445495406,"node_id":"MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ0NTQ5NTQwNg==","user":{"login":"Atavic","id":21977578,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjIxOTc3NTc4","avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/21977578?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic","html_url":"https://github.com/Atavic","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Atavic/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-12-08T22:42:31Z","updated_at":"2018-12-08T22:42:31Z","author_association":"NONE","body":"...and that's how discussions fall down.\r\n\r\nWhen devs jump into discussions, good old etiquette should remind anyone *not to flame against devs that can put valuable comments here*."}}
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