• RE: Brave Browser

    From Rob Mccart@954:895/54 to MIKE DIPPEL on Mon Sep 16 00:40:00 2024
    I always thought it was only compatible with Macs so I never tried it.
    >Good to know it has those features. I am now totally invested in Brave
    >since I bookmark a lot of sites and I want to be able to get those
    >bookmarks on any of my devices.

    I see that there is no direct way to sync between Opera and Brave,
    >but thanks for the input.

    Yes, I saw something in it about syncing but I guess it only syncs itself between devices. If I'm not mistaken it can import from other browsers, although maybe not from Brave for some reason..

    Yes, instructions say you can choose Import Data and then select the
    source browser and which things you want to import, so it looks like
    it should work reasonably well with some browsers..

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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to Rob Mccart on Mon Sep 16 11:09:26 2024
    On 9/16/2024 12:45 AM, Rob Mccart wrote to Mike Dippel:

    I always thought it was only compatible with Macs so I never tried it.
    >Good to know it has those features. I am now totally invested in Brave
    >since I bookmark a lot of sites and I want to be able to get those
    >bookmarks on any of my devices.

    I see that there is no direct way to sync between Opera and Brave,
    >but thanks for the input.

    Yes, I saw something in it about syncing but I guess it only syncs itself between devices. If I'm not mistaken it can import from other browsers, although maybe not from Brave for some reason..

    Yes, instructions say you can choose Import Data and then select the
    source browser and which things you want to import, so it looks like
    it should work reasonably well with some browsers..

    I am sold on Brave. It is very reliable, so I will stick with it.

    Mike Dippel
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  • From Rob Mccart@954:895/54 to MIKE DIPPEL on Wed Sep 18 00:37:00 2024
    I am sold on Brave. It is very reliable, so I will stick with it.

    Does it work on Banking and financial sites? I find some sites refuse to
    allow Opera, likely because it blocks their ability to 'spy' on who you
    are to verify your identity.

    Mainly there's just one banking site that does that to me on Opera so I
    just use something else there but I'm pretty sure there's a way to set
    Opera to not protect your identity for a specific site, but it hasn't
    been enough of an issue for me to look into it more. I run an older
    version of Opera on my main Laptop, since it is running Windows 7, and
    that site works fine from there but the Android version on my phone is
    kept right up to date and that's the one that causes issues..

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  • From Mike Powell@954:895/54 to ROB MCCART on Wed Sep 18 09:39:00 2024
    Does it work on Banking and financial sites? I find some sites refuse to allow Opera, likely because it blocks their ability to 'spy' on who you
    are to verify your identity.

    One thing that I find annoying regarding browsers... "private/incognito"
    mode is supposed to afford you a little more security. So, I usually use
    that to access any systems that may contain my sensitive information (like
    the bank) and that require a userid/password.

    The problem there is that the bank site is always going to treat that
    private mode browser session as a red flag, which means I always get a lot
    more "are you a robot" challenges with pictures or other things that are
    barely legible, even on a decent sized monitor.

    It is an annoyance but I guess it is more secure than the alternative. ;)

    Mike


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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to Rob Mccart on Wed Sep 18 16:19:04 2024
    On 9/18/2024 12:42 AM, Rob Mccart wrote to Mike Dippel:

    I am sold on Brave. It is very reliable, so I will stick with it.

    Does it work on Banking and financial sites? I find some sites refuse to allow Opera, likely because it blocks their ability to 'spy' on who you
    are to verify your identity.

    Mainly there's just one banking site that does that to me on Opera so I
    just use something else there but I'm pretty sure there's a way to set
    Opera to not protect your identity for a specific site, but it hasn't
    been enough of an issue for me to look into it more. I run an older
    version of Opera on my main Laptop, since it is running Windows 7, and
    that site works fine from there but the Android version on my phone is
    kept right up to date and that's the one that causes issues..

    My wife uses Chrome via her Chromebook and there is one site that she had a problem when doing her banking. I think it has resolved now. I can't install Brave on the Chromebook so I don't know if it would work or not.

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  • From Arelor@954:895/63 to Mike Powell on Wed Sep 18 16:38:25 2024
    Re: RE: Brave Browser
    By: Mike Powell to ROB MCCART on Wed Sep 18 2024 09:39 am

    One thing that I find annoying regarding browsers... "private/incognito" mode is supposed to afford you a little more security. So, I usually use that to access any systems that may contain my sensitive information (like the bank) and that require a userid/password.

    The problem there is that the bank site is always going to treat that private mode browser session as a red flag, which means I always get a lot more "are you a robot" challenges with pictures or other things that are barely legible, even on a decent sized monitor.

    It is an annoyance but I guess it is more secure than the alternative. ;)

    Firefox on OpenBSD uses some security frameworks available from the OS by default. In a nutshell, the kernel monitors whether Firefox is doing stuff browser is supposed to do, or if it is doing something else.

    I have noticed my browser has a bad tendency to invoke syscalls it is not supposed to invoke when accesing my main banking site, trying to do tty stuff and the like. The OS defense trigges automatically when that happens, asumes the application has gone rogue, and kills the offending process.

    It is great because the bank cannot play naughty games in my sistem. It is bad because their site is effectively broken. At the end of the day I use a sandboxed banking app for it in my smartphone.


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  • From Rob Mccart@954:895/54 to MIKE POWELL on Fri Sep 20 00:47:00 2024
    One thing that I find annoying regarding browsers... "private/incognito"
    >mode is supposed to afford you a little more security. So, I usually use
    >that to access any systems that may contain my sensitive information (like
    >the bank) and that require a userid/password.

    The problem there is that the bank site is always going to treat that
    >private mode browser session as a red flag, which means I always get a lot
    >more "are you a robot" challenges with pictures or other things that are
    >barely legible, even on a decent sized monitor.

    Those are especially a lot of fun on a cell phone.. B)

    It is an annoyance but I guess it is more secure than the alternative. ;)

    Most of the financial sites I use these days have the double log-in where
    they text or eMail (or can phone) you a pin number that you use after
    you've already signed on with a password. I haven't run across those stupid hard to see Photo 'robot' challenges on the banking sites up here but last
    week I went to go on a banking site I rarely use from my phone and there was some part of the Login that would have taken an annoying amount of time to
    find on the phone so I gave up and disconnected. The next time I go to that bank site, they won't let me log on unless I jump through a lot of hoops
    and tell them that, yes, that was me the other day.. and then they insisted that I go in and change security questions and my password and such before
    I can get to my account, this on my computer now.

    Fortunately (?) when I went to the security setup (at about 2 AM) access
    was down (for maintenance?) and I was able to bypass that and did get on.
    Now that I think about it, I haven't been back there yet so I don't know
    for sure I won't get hit with the same thing again next time..

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  • From Mike Powell@954:895/54 to ROB MCCART on Fri Sep 20 10:02:00 2024
    Most of the financial sites I use these days have the double log-in where they text or eMail (or can phone) you a pin number that you use after
    you've already signed on with a password. I haven't run across those stupid hard to see Photo 'robot' challenges on the banking sites up here

    That is the most annoying part. The have the multi-factor logon... userID/password, then a pin to your phone... but, I assume because I am
    always in private/incognito mode in my browser, it still makes me do the 'robot' challenges... sometimes many of them... before I can proceed.

    The 'robot' challenge round usually happens between the logon and the
    sending of the pin.

    but last
    week I went to go on a banking site I rarely use from my phone and there was some part of the Login that would have taken an annoying amount of time to find on the phone so I gave up and disconnected. The next time I go to that bank site, they won't let me log on unless I jump through a lot of hoops
    and tell them that, yes, that was me the other day.. and then they insisted that I go in and change security questions and my password and such before
    I can get to my account, this on my computer now.

    I am not surprised. Like I said I guess it is more secure but, then again,
    a persistant criminal will probably keep jumping through the hoops, too,
    until they are successful.

    Fortunately (?) when I went to the security setup (at about 2 AM) access
    was down (for maintenance?) and I was able to bypass that and did get on.
    Now that I think about it, I haven't been back there yet so I don't know
    for sure I won't get hit with the same thing again next time..

    Good luck! :D

    Mike

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  • From Bill Dean@954:895/76 to Arelor on Mon Dec 2 18:08:38 2024
    Re: Brave Browser
    By: Arelor to halian on Fri Sep 06 2024 08:43 am

    Re: Brave Browser
    By: halian to Mike Dippel on Thu Sep 05 2024 03:31 pm

    I absolutely *hate* it and wish complete & utter destruction on it. Not o is it one of the zillion Chromium forks taking over the Internet through false competition, but it's run by known anti-LGBTQIA+ anti-vaxxer cryptoshit Brendan Eich, and has cryptoshit deeply & irreversibly integra into it.


    Nowadays, I find it a bonus rather than a malus when something is run by somebody who angers easily offended people. I guess Brave gets some ++ point for not sponsoring the word soup brigade.

    I use Firefox myself with the arkenfox user.js and some other tricks. Brave very popular among people who wants a Chromium based browser with adblocking integrated, so I appreciate it exists. I am a fan of most stuff that starves the advertisement industry, specially hypocrite bullies such as Google.


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    I had never heard of Brave Browser until today. I will stick with Firefox for the time. I used it since it was Mozilla brower and never had any issue with it.I have Google blocked in my hosts file and have not missed it. I did the same with bing and only have problems with a few websites not loading, i just find a work around and do just fine.
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  • From Arelor@954:200/1 to Bill Dean on Sat Dec 7 04:25:44 2024
    Re: Brave Browser
    By: Bill Dean to Arelor on Mon Dec 02 2024 06:08 pm

    I had never heard of Brave Browser until today. I will stick with Firefox for the time. I used it since it was Mozilla brower and never had any issue with it.I have Google blocked in my hosts file and have not missed it. I did the same with bing and only have problems with a few websites not loading, i just find a work around and do just fine.

    I use a content filtering Proxy that removes lots of advertisements and trackers, and then I have an adblocker integrated with the DNS services I use. It is cooler than dealing with host files, specially because if you have more than one computer it sucks to keep host files in sync.

    But yeah, fuck Google.


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  • From Rixter@954:895/76 to Mike Powell on Wed Dec 18 12:06:10 2024
    Some financial institutions only accept chrome or safari maybe Firefox, they will block you like you were operating behind a VPN.

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