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NoteOnBrowsers 2 - 18 Jan 2023 - Main.EbenMoglen
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< | The browser is the single most important piece of software most of us use. Aside from all asartassphone "apps" taken together, the browser collects more of our behavior and leaks more of that information to outsiders than anything else. | >
> | The browser is the single most important piece of software most of us use. Aside from all amsartassphone "apps" taken together, the browser collects more of our behavior and leaks more of that information to outsiders than anything else. | | | | |
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< | All major browsers with one exception are now made by behavior-collection empires, or are based on free software, Chromium, from which Google derives Chrome. | >
> | All major browsers with one exception are now made by behavior-collection empires, or are based on free software, Chromium, from which Google derives Chrome and Brave derives Brave. | | | | |
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< | You have every reason to use the browser that isn't, Firefox. Firefox is made by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, entirely of free software anyone can study. copy, modify, reuse and redistribute, which keeps it honest. Please do consider using Firefox all the time, but certainly in my courses. | >
> | You have every reason to use a browser that isn't, Firefox. Firefox is made by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, entirely of free software anyone can study. copy, modify, reuse and redistribute, which keeps it honest. Please do consider using Firefox all the time, but certainly in my courses. | | | | |
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< | As of January 2022, Chrome seems to have broken compatibility with Jitsi Meet, the free software private video conferencing server we are using for small-group meetings and remote office hours. I have little doubt this will be fixed in a future release of Chrome, but it's a good time to download Firefox and start using it for everything we do here. | >
> | The [https://brave.com Brave]] browser is produced by a for-profit free software maker, Brave Software, Inc., also seeking to create a browser that protects your privacy. It is the brainchild of Brendan Eich, long a leader at the Mozilla Foundation. It uses Google's Chromium, the free software at the heart of the Chrome browser, while Firefox is a codebase of its own. Because Chrome so dominates the user side of the Web, Brave benefits from "working like" Chrome, at the cost of relying upon Google technology. It is, however, a fundamentally different product, with a view of the role of the browser in the Web, and a business model, that are distinctive and a commitment to your privacy that is the antithesis of Googledom. If for some reason you don't want to use Firefox, you should definitely try Brave. | | | |
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NoteOnBrowsers 1 - 14 Jan 2022 - Main.EbenMoglen
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Browsers
The browser is the single most important piece of software most of us use. Aside from all asartassphone "apps" taken together, the browser collects more of our behavior and leaks more of that information to outsiders than anything else.
All major browsers with one exception are now made by behavior-collection empires, or are based on free software, Chromium, from which Google derives Chrome.
You have every reason to use the browser that isn't, Firefox. Firefox is made by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, entirely of free software anyone can study. copy, modify, reuse and redistribute, which keeps it honest. Please do consider using Firefox all the time, but certainly in my courses.
As of January 2022, Chrome seems to have broken compatibility with Jitsi Meet, the free software private video conferencing server we are using for small-group meetings and remote office hours. I have little doubt this will be fixed in a future release of Chrome, but it's a good time to download Firefox and start using it for everything we do here.
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