Most people do recommend Firefox, there’s just a strange contingent of “but for a browser that works great out of the box” people who keep insisting that Brave is the best
It released a browser that blocked cookies from pretty much every ad tech company except for Microsoft. When people pointed that out, it got updated pretty quickly to no longer do that.
It got reported as “the browser is sending your data to Microsoft”
In privacy communities, for some reason the following two things are taken as gospel truth:
DDG’s biggest sin was failing to atone for their one mistake by not making a bunch more, so they would all run together and cancel each other out
When was the last time you read any posts from privacy communities? Firefox is usually what people suggest and noobs talk about Brave.
Let’s just say I have… Some prior experience.
Most people do recommend Firefox, there’s just a strange contingent of “but for a browser that works great out of the box” people who keep insisting that Brave is the best
DDG did WHAT
It released a browser that blocked cookies from pretty much every ad tech company except for Microsoft. When people pointed that out, it got updated pretty quickly to no longer do that.
It got reported as “the browser is sending your data to Microsoft”
Sounded nasty so I looked out up. Seems it wasn’t intentional.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-duckduckgo-gates-track-idUSL1N3792HE