So you think they are not out to get you? Look what FireFox is doing!

The Election is over already.

[link to research.princeton.edu (secure)]

(less than 50%)

"A research team led by Princeton University(link is external) has developed a technique for tracking online foreign misinformation campaigns in real time, which could help mitigate outside interference in the 2020 American election.

The researchers developed a method for using machine learning to identify malicious internet accounts, or trolls, based on their past behavior. Featured in Science Advances(link is external), the model investigated past misinformation campaigns from China, Russia, and Venezuela that were waged against the United States before and after the 2016 election.

The team identified the patterns these campaigns followed by analyzing posts to Twitter and Reddit and the hyperlinks or URLs they included. After running a series of tests, they found their model was effective in identifying posts and accounts that were part of a foreign influence campaign, including those by accounts that had never been used before.

They hope that software engineers will be able to build on their work to create a real-time monitoring system for exposing foreign influence in American politics."

Especially at election time it seems......

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In June 2020 this was said of Brave:

"Brave, the privacy-focused Chromium browser from Mozilla co-founder and JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, has come under fire for automatically redirecting URLs typed into the browser's address bar to a version of the URL it profits from. "

[link to www.zdnet.com (secure)]

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Princeton! That’s where they make the gcp dot!

So...use Brave browser?

I just want people to know.. I've held onto FF for too many years. I think this breaks the faith with me. They can call it many names, it is still bad faith in my book.

I use Yandex, could not care less what the Russians know about me.

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I used Firefox in the 2000s. I was such a believer. How disappointing.

I know Firefox keeps crashing on my tablet, usually when I am at an interesting informative site.

Thanks for all the tips. Many of us know only the basics and have not the knowledge to delve into source code etc.

i quit firefox years ago. it has many 'phone home' issues and is in bed with google.

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I stopped using it years ago because it kept freezing my machines. I switched to Pale Moon which is a stripped down, independent fork of Firefox.

I used Pale Moon almost exclusively for many years but now I use Brave a lot especially for YouTube and I use Opera too because it is efficient.