[Chester LUG] Looks like Firefox got caught bundling adware in the browser.

[stuart at newlymintedmedia.com]

Problem is that Brave inject their own ads into other peoples content ☹ I am just trying to build Chromium for lols now 😊

 

From: Les Pritchard [mailto:les.pritchard at gmail.com] 
Sent: 09 October 2017 00:04
To: stuart at newlymintedmedia.com; chester <chester at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] Looks like Firefox got caught bundling adware in the browser.

 

Oh dear, that's not good. Someone recommended Brave Browser to me recently. It has a built in ad blocker. Tried it a little bit and it seemed to work well. 

 

On 8 Oct 2017 11:33 pm, "stuart--- via Chester" <chester at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:chester at mailman.lug.org.uk> > wrote:

Just a quick one… Looks like FF are “experimenting” with adware/spyware bundled into the browser. Worth a read..https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/750vsm/firefox_devs_discussing_how_to_secretly_sneak_the/ Not gone in depth but it’s all a bit naughty imho.

 

 


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