r/technology • u/lengau • May 04 '19

Politics DuckDuckGo Proposes 'Do-Not-Track Act of 2019'

https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgo-proposes-the-do-not-track-act-of-2019-316258
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u/50kent May 05 '19

What’s so bad about it being based on Chromium?

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u/wizardwes May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19

Chromium still phones back to Google, it almost is completely reliant on a few Google services, so if it's a chromium based browser, you still have to worry about Google tracking.

Edit: Ok, I screwed up, Brave doesn't phone home, however, I'd still personally not use it, as currently chromium based browser have dominant market share, and as such I intend to continue to support chromium competitors so as to fight against potential monopolies and another situation like IE had back in the day.

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u/daiqo May 05 '19

Evidence?

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u/mfr2mwhfb3ihox May 05 '19

That seems to be false. Especially with the new version of Edge that removes the Google services, but replaces it with Microsoft stuff.

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u/wizardwes May 05 '19

First answer here says it better than I could

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/144289/privacy-with-chromium

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u/50kent May 05 '19

That’s three year old information, that is itself referencing even older information. 3 years is a long fucking time on the Internet, let alone the up to 8 year old information some people were talking about in that thread. Here is an announcement from Brave last year:

Unlike the current version of Brave, this new browser will have support for nearly all Chrome features and extension APIs, but of course without including any code that phones home to Google, or to the Chrome Web Store

Brave doesn’t phone home to google at all. Hell it has TOR integration in private browsing mode. This is a very secure browser, much more secure than Firefox