I just saw this browser that is saying that It’s better than brave, but it has incorrect information on its website and seems shady, what are your thoughts?
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I took a look and yes I also think it’s shady. Pandering to crypto, Web 3.0, and several other buzzwords were clear red flags to me. I also don’t trust any of its claimed performance statistics and I couldn’t find anything about its content blocker. It’s open source though which is the only good thing I could see about it. Overall I think it’s trying to pander to the Web 3.0 crowd more than anything else with claimed privacy features to try and extend its audience.
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Brave but with more crypto? Yeah thanks and no thanks.
And I think that’s a shame too because I love the sound of Web 3 but things like Carbon browser just start tainting the concept with all their crypto-bro jargon. An actual good Web 3 should use private coins like Monero and continue to build upon the Fediverse with things like Peertube, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Matrix. And all privacy measures we currently take should be obsolete in the future thanks to tons of (much needed) privacy regulation.
Can’t forget “100% PRIVACY”
like what are the other browsers 10% privacy? 11%? Who decides the number is Brave 95%?
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Anything that says silly stuff like “100% privacy” makes me skeptical (both of the quality of the software and the seriousness/competence of the people behind it).
That doesn’t mean I would immediately rule it out, but it certainly doesn’t make me keen to try it or trust it.
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Actually I would like to redact my original statement that “100% Privacy” is a giveaway for a bad service. Notesnook uses that terminology, and a lot of other apps do use that term as well. Just in this context, put together with everything else the website has to offer, this comes off as bittersweet and disingenuous.
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Actually I would like to redact my original statement that “100% Privacy” is a giveaway for a bad service. Notesnook uses that terminology, and a lot of other apps do use that term as well.
As far as I know no privacy service or software I use or recommend makes the claim of 100% private or secure.
To me, it raises my hackles when any company projects a false sense of “100%” private/secure/anonymous/zero risk/etc, but it is different if a single purpose end-to-end encrypted app like notesnook for example makes that claim (assuming that they do), it is at least not outright impossible in the context of an e2ee app where everything is encrypted/decrypted locally on your device only.
But for a WEB BROWSER to claim 100% privacy–which is not even theoretically possible in the context of a browser & the open internet–is especially egregious and an outright falsehood, and shows they are either being extremely disingenuous in their marketing or are extremely naive. Carbon Browser or any other Browser is not capable of making web browsing “100% private”
(And I am extremely skeptical they are capable of living up to other dubious statistics they throw around like being 300% faster than other web browsers or “saves 95% of your (mobile) data”)
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This “Web Browser Comparison” table is just comical
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How do you define speed? “Speed” can mean the startup time (considering it is written in seconds), the time it takes to load a light webpage, an heavy one, the score given by a synthetic benchmark like Speedometer or MotionMark and probably other things. “Speed = 0.5” is simply too generic
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So carbon has a free dVPN (with that d standing for decentralized or something similar)? So basically Tor without Tor (and the anonymity provided by Tor Browser)?
Let’s also not forget that carbon has ToR e2ee (free) and 3rd Party Networks -
Claiming that your browser Block All ads and trackers and that the others (including Google Chrome, by the way) Block most ads and trackers is just wrong. Having a few more filter lists doesn’t mean you are blocking ALL ads and trackers
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No, it’s not called Unstoppable IPFS nor Unstoppable but Unstoppable Domains. And no, Google Chrome doesn’t support ENS, Unstoppable Domains, Handshake or IPFS
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Brave and Chrome have low value $BAT reward but carbon’s got Higher value rewards?
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One of carbon’s special features is Carbon Pro? And one of Dropbox exclusive features that no other service has is Dropbox Plus
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No pls done use it. Looks shady