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As a user of Brave, I'm consciously making this decision, thank you very much. What's your idea as to how content creators should be supported?
The problem is that if you start paying content creators, then you're giving data to another party, i.e. your bank.
Installed it and then noticed in my firewall that it is
- trying to connect to a number of IPs owned by google, umm OK
- sending a multicast SSDP UDP request on port 1900 to 239.255.255.250
So googled that and got this page: https://community.brave.com/t/why-is-brave-issuing-upnp-disc...
Which basically tells you that the first thing Brave does is to try and detect what devices are in your local network.
... and that's where my Brave experiment ends.
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Also note that uninstall is completely silent, no confirmation that it actually completed.
The uninstaller also leaves behind the updater utility AND the Windows Task scheduler tasks that run the updater.
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On the flip side, what people seem to want “not for profit” to mean is “employees work for below market rate for some reason”. I don't get it. I would expect employees at a non-profit to be compensated along the same lines as those at a for-profit. It's a constant easy story for shitty journalism in the UK – "oh my god this head of a charity makes far less than the head of an equivalently–sized private company! what…
I guess it's more like how many devs could be paid a decent salary from the millions that he Mozilla "leadership" pays itself.
You’re suggesting it would be better if Mozilla did… what? Had no leadership team, perhaps using some kind of non traditional management structure? Paid their leadership team below-market rate? Or is it just the general idea that high-level leaders are paid too much throughout society, and that this needs to be fixed? (Which is totally true, but not at all specific to Mozilla).
Figured to try Brave as it keeps popping up. Installed it and then noticed in my firewall that it is - trying to connect to a number of IPs owned by google, umm OK - sending a multicast SSDP UDP request on port 1900 to 239.255.255.250 So googled that and got this page: https://community.brave.com/t/why-is-brave-issuing-upnp-disc... Which basically tells you that the first thing Brave does is to try and detect what de…
In evaluating Brave, you have to give it apples to apple comparison anyway. Brave vs. Chrome as its directly built on chromium. For compatibility, it shares the chrome app store too. I like to think of Brave as Chrome without most of Google but with all the benefits.
Anecdotally, I switched a colleague to Brave about 3 months ago. He decided to switch back to Chrome. Chrome was so much slower than Brave and added battery drain that he came back. I assume it was all the additional requests cut out (Google) or blocked by Brave (Adblocker).
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Switched from Firefox to Brave in the last year across devices and not looking back (though I do miss containers!). Blocking ads and trackers by default is pretty much essential in 2019. The myth about ad replacement doesn't seem to want to die though! There is no ad replacement, though the roadmap says at some time in the future publishers who opt-in will have the option to have their ad-slots filled by Brave's priv…
"Blocking ads and trackers by default is pretty much essential in 2019." How is it better than a choice of plug-ins to block them?
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Considering most of their jobs are in mountain view, a very expensive col and developer salary area, they should consider moving somewhere more economical if they expect to live on handouts. Why should we have to support their over priced office space?
Because they're still doing important work, and deserve to have nice things? Why does working at a non profit mean that you should have a bad quality of life? You don't have to support them, but if their product provides value to you, it's worth considering
That is, it's not about less good quality of life, just less high salary possible only in places with less high level of misc. inflation.
Plus passed some level, I doubt higher salaries make good corollary with high quality of life. Not that you can't have a sane happy life with a lot of money, of course. But : - it doesn't seem to to be a requirement, see for example the case of Matthieu Ricard[2] - large salary, or more generally acquiring a social status broadly recognized as great success doesn't prevent from terrible quality of life. Arguably, even you go with Camus saying "Un geste comme le suicide se prépare dans le silence du cœur au même titre qu’une grande oeuvre", not all people in [3] committed suicide out of a situation where they felt they had good quality of life.
[1] https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/23/duolingo-to-silicon-valle... [2] https://onbeing.org/programs/matthieu-ricard-happiness-as-hu... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicides_in_the_21st_c...
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>Firefox makes money by its search deal with Google Of course, development costs a lot. They will not need to rely on Google in the future if more people donate to them regularly. Consider donating to Firefox.
Considering most of their jobs are in mountain view, a very expensive col and developer salary area, they should consider moving somewhere more economical if they expect to live on handouts. Why should we have to support their over priced office space?
One, Mozilla has multiple offices across the world; see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/
Two, a large percentage (perhaps even a majority?) work remotely.
This combination lets Mozilla hire talented people wherever they are.
(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla)
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I don't understand why you think this means that Google can easily kill all Chrome clones in one funny day .
They definitely can't reasonably do that but in the long run I don't think Brave has the resources to maintain a hard fork from Chromium. That's the main reason I don't really get the Brave hype when Firefox does the job just fine and is actually a fully independent codebase instead of a relatively shallow customization of Chromium. The only argument that keeps coming up is that Brave has a built-in adblocker but it'…
I think the bigger issue is chrome implementing an new web feature that blink-fork2 and firefox dont agree with, that web devs start implementing anyway. Google controls web development more than they control browser development.
Theres also the WideVine argument, but for me personally I dont see why i need my primary browser to also play netflix. Its not that hard to open a separate netflix app/browser. The amount of drm encapsulated video I watch in my browser is minimal to none.
Figured to try Brave as it keeps popping up. Installed it and then noticed in my firewall that it is - trying to connect to a number of IPs owned by google, umm OK - sending a multicast SSDP UDP request on port 1900 to 239.255.255.250 So googled that and got this page: https://community.brave.com/t/why-is-brave-issuing-upnp-disc... Which basically tells you that the first thing Brave does is to try and detect what de…
I think your comment is a bit misleading as they aren't doing anything nefarious as you suggest. My guess is this is a carryover from Chrome and not something Brave decided to build; if that's the case your not getting more secure by staying with Chrome. In evaluating Brave, you have to give it apples to apple comparison anyway. Brave vs. Chrome as its directly built on chromium. For compatibility, it shares the chro…
Trust is something you have to earn. I do not install Chrome as I do not trust google. They have too much of my data already.
Brave claims at their main page:
"Brave is open source and built by a team of privacy focused, performance oriented pioneers of the web."
OK well they failed my 5 minute test.
Not having removed the SSDP parts is one thing.
Not uninstalling your updater after running uninstall is straight out sloppy.
A simple guide to choosing your browser: Does it make money by showing you ads? Chrome: Yes Brave: Yes Firefox: No If yes, then they need to track your behavior in detail. I'm sure you don't deserve to be tracked.
The difference is any tracking Brave does is 100% local on your device, which eliminates any potential privacy issues that may exist with other advertising models.