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[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

It's chromium and the company sells telemetry data to advertisers. It's quite literally doing the thing it draws users in with.

[-] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

What? I agree with a lot of the Brave criticism and don't think they're perfect by any means, but saying they "sell telemetry data to advertisers" is just false and a completely baseless claim.

[-] KingPyrox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Is Firefox not also using chromium?

[-] gullible@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

No, Firefox is entirely distinct from chromium.

[-] KingPyrox@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I did not know this, thank you.

[-] Teon@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox does not use Chromium. However, people get confused because when you mod FF you change the userChrome file with CSS.
FF has had that file name even before Google had a browser.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Firefox uses their own engine, Gecko

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