It's as if Brave is performance art put on by Mozilla's advertising department.
he updated the article and quoted you in it :D
The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
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#132OP here. Brendan Eich is now publicly calling me a liar, though he's inexplicably failed to detail the claimed lies. I've asked him to do so. https://web.archive.org/web/20200606232839/https://twitter.c...
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#133I'm surprised people are surprised by this. Brave have said from the beginning that this is how their business model works. What I'm even more surprised about is that Brave has gotten any traction at all, as there is really no reason to use it instead of a normal browser with regular ad blockers.
I use it on iOS because its an easy solution for ad-blocking. Is there a good ad-blocker for Safari on iOS?
Ad Block fast is open source & no $
Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
#134I'm surprised people are surprised by this. Brave have said from the beginning that this is how their business model works. What I'm even more surprised about is that Brave has gotten any traction at all, as there is really no reason to use it instead of a normal browser with regular ad blockers.
You can get paid for using the browser by being shown replacement non-targeted ads. Although it's a trivial amount.
Ah, the cornerstone of trickle down economics!
“If you buy into the idea I’m super important, lift me up unreasonably, I’ll pay you back pennies on the dollar!”
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
what the fuck, whats happening in the tech scene :( what should I use if I _dont_ want to be in the botnet or scammed and outside of google's mesh
I used Opera from 5 to 12, then Firefox till v37, and it's been Pale Moon ever since. Check out the latest release notes. I know I'm not the only one that likes things such as, >Removed more telemetry code >Removed the in-browser speech recognition engine and API >Removed support for the obsolete and unmaintained NVidia 3DVision stereoscopic interface. Palemoon is Firefox if it were still Firefox instead of feature-f…
Dosen't pale moon use https://start.me/ by default still? From reading https://start.me/privacy that does not seem encouraging.
Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
#136This is similar to when Pinterest did this back in 2012 and very quickly made large amounts of money but were crushed by public opinion and quickly shut the practice down. It’ll be interesting to see how Brave responds. 1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
Ironic that you posted an AMP link https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2012/2/8/2783807/pintr...
That's still an AMP link
Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
#137OP here. Brendan Eich is now publicly calling me a liar, though he's inexplicably failed to detail the claimed lies. I've asked him to do so. https://web.archive.org/web/20200606232839/https://twitter.c...
You clearly have some personal vendetta against Eich and I don't think HN is the best place for it.
Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
#138I'm surprised people are surprised by this. Brave have said from the beginning that this is how their business model works. What I'm even more surprised about is that Brave has gotten any traction at all, as there is really no reason to use it instead of a normal browser with regular ad blockers.
I use it on iOS because its an easy solution for ad-blocking. Is there a good ad-blocker for Safari on iOS?
There are many, Safari actually has extensions on iOS, there are no shortage of adblockers in all shapes and sizes.
Even Firefox has one.
Personally I use 1Blocker across iOS and macOS.
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#139Being a happy Firefox user and watching all the browser drama from the backyard. I still don't understand why people uses Chrome or Chrome variants claiming privacy things.
Try running firefox on a a53 based phone. Its miserable, you can't quite see how badly optimized it is on a high end phone because the page load time is 1/4 second instead of 1/10 of a second. On a low end phone that becomes 2-3 seconds rather than 1/2 a second.
I have a Moto X4. At the moment it is sitting around 150USD new. It's got a snapdragon 630 in it and despite struggling on several other applications, Firefox is super snappy and far faster than any other browser I've tried using despite having several add-ons installed.
Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
#140Being a happy Firefox user and watching all the browser drama from the backyard. I still don't understand why people uses Chrome or Chrome variants claiming privacy things.
Are use Firefox for my primary browser, but there are certain sites (made by google primarily) which work much better in chromium based browsers. Whether Google is intentionally degrading their performance in Firefox or simply doesn't care is an interesting technical detail, but from a practical standpoint I need to use these sites for my job, so I also need to keep a chromium-based browser around.
True, but unless you are a heavy Google user I don't see a cap in my performance to work with, GMail for example from time to time or using Drive, etc.