People complain about paywalls, but this is literally the first Twitter link I've looked at in days and I get a rate limiting error. I don't mind paywalls, but wish micropayments we're easier. Whatever anti-user stuff Twitter has been up to (this isn't a new problem) is just atrocious.
Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
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Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#12How would it work otherwise? How would we automate consent from the relevant webmaster, website owner, etc? It seems like we wouldn't be able to successful communicate with the principal in many or most cases.
I've thought of something vaguely similar – documenting website behavior and optimization opportunities without the involvement of publishers. It would be nice to have a known online resource/repository for this, kind of like the security vulnerability communication website that I can't remember at the moment.
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#13How would it work otherwise? How would we automate consent from the relevant webmaster, website owner, etc? It seems like we wouldn't be able to successful communicate with the principal in many or most cases. I've thought of something vaguely similar – documenting website behavior and optimization opportunities without the involvement of publishers. It would be nice to have a known online resource/repository for thi…
It wouldn't. Nobody owes you automated consent or anything.
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#14I'd been really loving Brave and using it as my daily driver for a few months now, until that I noticed that little "Brave Ads" icon at the end of the address bar. That's when I realized their entire business model is just in the usurpation of existing Google ad revenue, dressed up with "privacy concerns" for the good PR. This sent me on a journey to find a really solid, free, Chromium based browser that is totally d…
Honest question. Why not Firefox? What are your concerns with it?
I've tried over and over for decades to like Firefox, but I just don't. I can't say it's a rational decision entirely. But beyond that, I just think that Mozilla's motives can't really be trusted at face value with the amount of revenue they have these days, and their whole profile sync service. It just comes down to incentives, and any company which collects any kind of data has the incentive to profit at our expense regardless of ideology. Especially where people's salaries could depend on it.
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#15Does this have anything to do with Brave Browser? It's not quite clear to me.
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honest question. Why not Firefox? What are your concerns with it?
I've tried over and over for decades to like Firefox, but I just don't. I can't say it's a rational decision entirely. But beyond that, I just think that Mozilla's motives can't really be trusted at face value with the amount of revenue they have these days, and their whole profile sync service. It just comes down to incentives, and any company which collects any kind of data has the incentive to profit at our expens…
What about the profile sync service can't be trusted?
It's end-to-end encrypted. Mozilla doesn't have the keys.
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honest question. Why not Firefox? What are your concerns with it?
I've tried over and over for decades to like Firefox, but I just don't. I can't say it's a rational decision entirely. But beyond that, I just think that Mozilla's motives can't really be trusted at face value with the amount of revenue they have these days, and their whole profile sync service. It just comes down to incentives, and any company which collects any kind of data has the incentive to profit at our expens…
What about the whole profile sync service? It's designed to be privacy preserving by encrypting everything locally with a key only you have. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#18How would it work otherwise? How would we automate consent from the relevant webmaster, website owner, etc? It seems like we wouldn't be able to successful communicate with the principal in many or most cases. I've thought of something vaguely similar – documenting website behavior and optimization opportunities without the involvement of publishers. It would be nice to have a known online resource/repository for thi…
> How would it work otherwise?
Who says it has to?
> How would we automate consent from the relevant webmaster, website owner, etc?
Same way Let's Encrypt does for SSL - put a file in `.well-known` indicating you want it and consent to it.
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#19I'd been really loving Brave and using it as my daily driver for a few months now, until that I noticed that little "Brave Ads" icon at the end of the address bar. That's when I realized their entire business model is just in the usurpation of existing Google ad revenue, dressed up with "privacy concerns" for the good PR. This sent me on a journey to find a really solid, free, Chromium based browser that is totally d…
Have you checked out Ungoogled Chromium? Link to their GitHub: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honest question. Why not Firefox? What are your concerns with it?
I've tried over and over for decades to like Firefox, but I just don't. I can't say it's a rational decision entirely. But beyond that, I just think that Mozilla's motives can't really be trusted at face value with the amount of revenue they have these days, and their whole profile sync service. It just comes down to incentives, and any company which collects any kind of data has the incentive to profit at our expens…
Is Mozilla run that lean even with >$500M in revenue?