Happy presidents day everyone. I got a nasty surprise this morning. I looked at https://www.weforum.org/partners/#D and discovered the company that I work for is on the list of WEF partners. No wonder they’ve been shoving vax requirement on its employees. They were calling it the “Great Resignation” and I was calling it the “Great Reset” but I didn’t connect the dots until this morning.
I suggest everyone checks this partners page and look for your employer.
Heads up.
Firefox is open source, so I can tell you the only thing you're in danger of is Pocket suggested articles attempting to shape your reality as long as you've configured it properly.
Brave doesn't allow you to disable WebRTC. Firefox does.
With that being said, I use Fennec on Android, which is a Firefox clone with all the Pocket crap removed and Waterfox/Palemoon on PC.
I do have Brave installed but it's not my primary browser due to WebRTC enabled by default and no way to turn it off.
Wow - I have been using Brave. What do you suggest for Apple products?
I'd recommend Safari, believe it or not.
For ad-blocking, you can run the AdGuard extension for Safari or, even better, set up a Pi-Hole connected to your local Wi-Fi network and configure it as the DNS server for network wide ad-blocking on all devices (you'll need a bit of tech knowledge to set that up).
Why?
From Apple's development guidelines: Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
That's simply fancy techspeak that mean all "3rd party" web browsers are simply custom wrappers for Safari. Even worse, unless you have a Jailbreak, only Safari can use the Nitro JavaScript renderer, so it will load websites faster than any other browser.
With that being said, if you're happy with Brave and its ad blocker works OK for you, no worries sticking with it.
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Thanks - I’ll give it a go. The feature I do like about Brave is it not retaining history. If it is just a wrapper for Safari, does Safari keep a history and should I be going there to clean it up?
I don't have an iOS device anymore, so can't confirm the answer to the last question.
In any case, you can go to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Website Data, then tap Remove All Website Data to clear any history there.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
And if you don't want history saved in Safari, open everything in a private tab?
I think that only applies to app store apps. Firefox is not in the Mac app store last I checked, quite likely for this reason.
I'm talking about iOS, not macOS, correct.
Ugh I did not know WebRTC is on by default. That sets up the potential to do even more than just grab an IP address.
Yep, would be no big deal if Brave allowed you to turn it off, but it doesn't. It lets you change settings on how it works, but not turn it off completely.
There is a Chrome extension that provides that option but those aren't 100% reliable - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webrtc-network-limiter/npeicpdbkakmehahjeeohfdhnlpdklia
Better than nothing, I suppose.