DISSENTER IS SPYWARE
Dissenter is a web browser and plugin released by the social network company Gab.
Spyware Level: High
The Dissenter browser is a fork of the Brave web browser. It phones home to Brave for autoupdates and safebrowsing, which is hosted by Brave. The default search engine is DuckDuckGo. The browser has two extensions preinstalled. One extension, "Shields", blocks certain advertisment scripts. The other, "Dissenter" allows you to access the Dissenter social network. This extension phones home to several places whenever you open it, including Google and Twitter. The Dissenter social network also inherently must collect more information about the user's browsing habits than the current alternatives that already exist.
Phoning home
When the Dissenter Browser is started, it will make several connections to Brave's autoupdate services:
Dissenter is a web browser and plugin released by the social network company Gab.
Spyware Level: High
The Dissenter browser is a fork of the Brave web browser. It phones home to Brave for autoupdates and safebrowsing, which is hosted by Brave. The default search engine is DuckDuckGo. The browser has two extensions preinstalled. One extension, "Shields", blocks certain advertisment scripts. The other, "Dissenter" allows you to access the Dissenter social network. This extension phones home to several places whenever you open it, including Google and Twitter. The Dissenter social network also inherently must collect more information about the user's browsing habits than the current alternatives that already exist.
Phoning home
When the Dissenter Browser is started, it will make several connections to Brave's autoupdate services:
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@rescuturme_diurpagissa Thank you - that's a really good amount of information to take into consideration. I use it for the comment on any page more than for the privacy. I don't care if anyone sees it, I just don't like the moderation. I hadn't considered these other points as much.
Every once in a while, the Browser will send a request to Brave's instance of the Google safebrowsing service:
