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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.
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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.
I'm not sure how you integrate a distributed heroin based system into a browser.
On the other hand, companies which are supported by user donations act in the best interests of users. This includes websites such as Wikipedia and the Internet Archive.
Brave does offer the option to make a “tip” to websites, but it’s hardly necessary to have Brave be the middleman for all user donations.
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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.
> Yeah it is worth money. Similar to how heroin is worth money. I'm not sure how you integrate a distributed heroin based system into a browser.
What I am comparing is the illegitimacy of heroin to the illegitimacy of the crypto issued by Brave. I am sorry that you were incapable of deducing this. But now with this simple explanation of the nature of an analogy you get it!
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 installin…
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.
Standalone client-server apps have full, unsandboxed control of your computer. It’s impossible to see the content of encrypted network requests, short of hacking into the app. See: Wacom’s drivers track the name of every application that you open:
https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-tr...
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.
I'm not very happy that browsers and JavaScript have become the dominant app platform, but I think we'll need something with similar features to displace it.
I really don’t think that that’s a selling point. I really think most would think this is not a browser’s job.
Also, not our job to help Eich displace Google. As users, this is not our concern at all.