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The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by EastSmith »

zrobotics wrote: post #71
jsjddbbwj wrote: post #51

Am I the only one who uses brave with all bat stuff off? It's a fork of chromium that's up to date, completely open source, ad blocking and fingerprinting defeating built-in, reader mode, etc. Chrome but just better.

I don't use it on desktop, but it's the best android browser I have used. For whatever reason, Firefox is a battery hog on my current phone, so I switched to brave. Although I agree with this article, the crypto model they have is scammy at best. I should really switch browsers on my phone; while brave works OK the fact that their revenue model is broken should signal that they will likely need to do something shady…

Duckduckgo has a browser for android based on Chromium.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by jl2718 »

It’s been almost 30 years and I still don’t understand why browsers exist. Isolated client-server apps were always better. Except that app design now emulates the browser. Soon we’ll have wasm apps that look and feel like windows 1.0 and call it revolutionary.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by ssl232 »

I will not use Brave because I disagree with the legitimacy it gives to ads on the web. I want an ad-free web, or at least an ads-in-anything-like-their-current-form web. If that means the web is 1000x smaller than it currently is, then fine - most of the web today is total garbage anyway. I don't care about jobs supported by ads, because they're another form of 21st century bullshit job and we can invent some other forms of bullshit job to replace those lost to an ad-free web.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by skybrian »

jsjddbbwj wrote: post #51

Am I the only one who uses brave with all bat stuff off? It's a fork of chromium that's up to date, completely open source, ad blocking and fingerprinting defeating built-in, reader mode, etc. Chrome but just better.

Just be aware that you're placing a lot of trust in them.

It is adding a dependency on the Brave developers not to mess up and create security holes, in addition to whatever trust you place in the Chrome project itself. (A browser plugin requires somewhat less trust since it's sandboxed, but the permissions are still pretty scary.)

But I guess it's like buying an Android phone from anyone besides Google? Or installing packages from Debian and hoping they fix more security issues than they add, compared to the original developer. It's usually true, but not always.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by crimsonalucard »

codehalo wrote: post #93
crimsonalucard wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read the article? Inventing a currency out of thin air so they can mint as many dollars as they want and you and other geniuses can form a secondary market where all of you can trade it is the genius of brave and the point of this article. Instead of paying you, they make their own currency and pay you. You can make some money off of it in the secondary market because some other idiot thinks it's worth actual…

They didn't make their own money. It was raised in a token sale. Kinda like a stock IPO. How HARD is this to understand on this "tech" site?

It's pretty hard to understand something that's wrong. So in a stock IPO the stock represents a proportion of the business. You're saying that those cryptos represent the company? If the company liquidates I can exchange the crypto for the liquidation proceeds? Yay or nay?

This is a "tech" site, no stupid people exist on a "tech" site because of the word "tech," so everything you say must be 100% correct and infallible. Makes sense.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by crimsonalucard »

hedora wrote: post #82
crimsonalucard wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read the article? Inventing a currency out of thin air so they can mint as many dollars as they want and you and other geniuses can form a secondary market where all of you can trade it is the genius of brave and the point of this article. Instead of paying you, they make their own currency and pay you. You can make some money off of it in the secondary market because some other idiot thinks it's worth actual…

I hope you don’t own any stock. If you do, I’ve got some bad news about people making their own currency.

If a bank gives me a note that says this piece of paper represents the amount of money you have in the bank, this is not producing currency out of thin air.

If a company issues stock and says this piece of paper represents a percentage of the company, this is also not producing currency out of thin air.

If I print out american dollars that don't represent anything and start trading those dollars in the capital market then I will go to jail for counterfeiting. This is 100% producing currency out of thin air.

But wait, change that american dollar to crypto, then everything is legal. This is because crypto represents high technology and buzz wordy concepts. Everybody knows that buzzwords makes everything legal and right.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by crimsonalucard »

Proziam wrote: post #76
crimsonalucard wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read the article? Inventing a currency out of thin air so they can mint as many dollars as they want and you and other geniuses can form a secondary market where all of you can trade it is the genius of brave and the point of this article. Instead of paying you, they make their own currency and pay you. You can make some money off of it in the secondary market because some other idiot thinks it's worth actual…

So, cutting through your negativity, it's worth money ? Whether or not you like it is one thing, but it inarguably has a monetary value.

Yeah it is worth money. Similar to how heroin is worth money.

You know what else inarguably has monetary value? A perfect one to one copy of an american 100 dollar bill. This absolutely has monetary value and therefore you should buy it, just like how you should buy crypto.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by latchkey »

shim__ wrote: post #78
fullstop wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can cash out through Uphold. KYC rules apply.

You can also swap it for any other coin on the ethereum chain on uniswap https://uniswap.exchange/swap

I prefer http://1inch.exchange/ which aggregates multiple exchanges for the best price. It also has limit orders so you can catch the small swings in stable coin rates if you aren't in a hurry.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by falcolas »

jl2718 wrote: post #102

It’s been almost 30 years and I still don’t understand why browsers exist. Isolated client-server apps were always better. Except that app design now emulates the browser. Soon we’ll have wasm apps that look and feel like windows 1.0 and call it revolutionary.

Browsers were built to distribute information via web pages (not apps originally). They’ve evolved since then (in the name of distributing information and entertainment more efficiently), to the point where they can emulate a native app.

Apps are deployed via the browser today for one simple reason - they’re everywhere, and you can write your app once an run it just about anywhere.

It’s the promise of Java, realized.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by GoofballJones »

unnouinceput wrote: post #60

Quote: "You’re going to be browsing the web anyway; you’re going to be inundated with ads anyway;" Naaaah, Firefox with uBlock Origins and Privacy Badger makes sure I don't see ads, but thank you for trying.

Plus, on Mac OS I run Little Snitch with a set of custom blocking rules that's updated on a regular basis.

Also, at this point, I don't trust anything based on Chromium...even if it's all open-source etc. The last time I checked, it still phoned home to Google some telemetry data. Granted, I haven't looked into it for a while as I've turned my back on all things Google a while ago.

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