Every time I try to sync Brave on my device with my phone, it forces me to have a screen lock on my phone. This is extremely annoying and I have it off on purpose. Please make this “feature” optional or remove it completely.
Instead replace it with a warning because some of us have the screen lock off on purpose and forcing us to have it on should not be an ethical way to improve someone’s security against their wishes.
I don’t know why thise feature is forced. Brave is assuming that the device I use is mobile and/or not protected in other means. To force me to have the lock screen is inviting unnecessary inconvenience. No feature no matter how good and effective should be forced. If I don’t want to use a feature, it’s for a reason beyond your understanding. A warning is fine but do not force. Please remove or fix this feature some time in the near feature. Thank you.
@Bravo63251 and @joer Brave uses things like OSCrypt in order to have everything encrypted. On a computer this would be your login info, such as username and password you use to login to your device. On a mobile phone, this is a lock screen. If you don’t have it, then it can’t be encrypted. If not encrypted, it won’t be put on their servers because they don’t want to be to blame for any of your information being stolen.
@joer says “no business telling me what to do in my house.” Brave isn’t doing that at all. The only thing they are saying is that you can’t store information in their house (the sync servers) unless you have things set up so it can be encrypted. Otherwise it’s up to you to decide how else you would like to save or share data between devices.
Nope - Can’t sync without screen lock on the phone. If that isn’t forcing the issue then what is. They are forcing their users to do something they don;t want or need.
As far as encryption that’s crap. They just wanted a cheaper alternative. May ways to encrypt. Fortunately that’s not my problem. Big tech does the same stuff.
What Brave does in their house is up to Brave. But as usual it comes down to the user footing the bill. Why is it never compatible?
Let’s get real. No one hacks anything unless they have the information handed to them in one way or another. It’s not worth the effort. There is always someone on the inside handing out information or an intentional design error that becomes"known".
The answer to this is always code code code. No wonder software has become so bloated. Code will never solve the problem. It’s not that companies can’t solve it. They don’t want to.
This doesn’t make any sense. Why is Brave using my device’s login for any kind of encryption? And if I have multiple devices, they can all have a different password or method of entry. And how does Brave know my password? This isn’t a matter of encryption. It’s a feature that Brave things would increase security but only annoys people like me.