Brave Browser vs Chrome with Duckduckgo?

[avg123]

Is Chrome with duckduckgo good enough? Is there really anything more we get with Brave browser that we cant get with extensions on chrome.

[Bouzoo]

More privacy, as in not using a browser that literally follows you. Also better "ad protection". Brave said they aren't gonna go the same ad route as Chrome.

[avg123]

Just now, Bouzoo said:

More privacy, as in not using a browser that literally follows you. Also better "ad protection". Brave said they aren't gonna go the same ad route as Chrome.

I dont sign in to the browser. Can they still track me?

[Bramimond]

Friendly reminder about DDG:

 

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1) DuckDuckGo has a tracker on the home page.

2) DuckDuckGo tracks the ads you click on before redirecting you. You can see this in the screenshot below.

https://www.stoutner.com/new-default-homepage-and-search-engine/

 

 

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Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, used to run the Names Database.[1] This was a website that aimed to connect people who had lost contact by gathering lots and lots of e-mail addresses. Getting access could be done by either paying money, or submitting lots of e-mail addresses of other people. Since the service revolved around gathering personal information, it is very suspicious for Gabriel Weinberg to start a business that is privacy-oriented. [2]

DuckDuckGo used to set a tracking cookie, even though they claimed they didn't. This was done by a third party they cooperate with, which means that it wasn't necessarily intentional, but if it's unintentional, it shows a worrying lack of care.[3]

DuckDuckGo is based in the US. This makes it really easy for the NSA to compromise it. If it were based in the EU, for example, the NSA wouldn't have the legal power to force them to log everything without telling anyone. This wouldn't guarantee privacy, but it would make it a lot more plausible. Instead, they're based in the US, which means that the NSA can do whatever they want with them. There are secure search engines that are not based in the US.[3]

https://8ch.net/tech/ddg.html

sources:

https://archive.is/9wR4O

https://archive.is/N2qe8

https://archive.is/qntuk

 

 

2 minutes ago, avg123 said:

I dont sign in to the browser. Can they still track me?

Yes. Google can identify you just by the way you move your mouse cursor. Also, if you don't run some form of ad- or scriptblocking, ads have the ability to track you, too, by using fingerprinting techniques. And that's only the tip of the iceberg. The way internet ads work is that website owners can't really curate ads, so if you allow ads, you always allow an attack vector that the website you want to support can't do shit about until it's already happened.