The reason why “the internet is broken” is because of ads. Ads incentivize tracking and clickbait. In the end, ad companies, such as Google and Faceboook, act in the interests of advertisers, not users. Brave is an ad company. 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 op…
You, uh, don't need Brave to be the middleman for all user donations.
That's exactly why they built the whole thing on top of decentralized cryptocurrency.
You're not alone. The book "Type and Layout" by Colin Wheildon describes a "readability" experiment measuring the impact of various typographical techniques on whether subjects comprehend a magazine article. Light text on black background performed abysmally. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1875750223 (Naturally I believe people who say white-on-black works for them, but I don't believe that preference is universal…
Print and screen are not the same - as print is reflective, while screens are typically a light source. E-ink is closer to (low resolution, poor quality paper) print.
> E-ink is closer to (low resolution, poor quality paper) print.
Was curious so I checked - high-end ereaders are 300 PPI, which tends to be the minimum PPI for good quality print.
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…
I'm not sure you understand how the Brave/BAT/Ads dynamic operates.
Brave with the BAT features turned on still uses its builtin adblock.
From there, I think you need to state a bit more clearly how is their revenue model broken.
I think you wholly misunderstand that the fingerprint is randomized on every restart of the browser. That is so much noise that it renders fingerprinting as a strategy utterly useless.
Most people don't restart their browsers as often as you might think (the modern trend is very much away from desktops). Especially on mobile, where things stick around in the background without your knowledge.
You can very easily hook into open/close events on any mobile OS – the concept of actually "restarting" the browser doesn't need to come into it.
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…
Do you believe ads should not exist in the world period?
How do you justify such a broad-spanning assertion?
As a casual uBlock user, what does uMatrix give you that uBlock Origin doesn’t?
UMatrix will block everything by default(more or less). Ublock will use pre defined lists that block known advertisement networks and similar. This means umatrix will break most websites by default and require you to check what elements are required and allow them manual but offers higher security because you essentially audit every website you visit.
It also allows you to add certain common sites, that you may consider ok, to its white-list. That means over a period of time, the amount of auditing required generally goes down.
The reason why “the internet is broken” is because of ads. Ads incentivize tracking and clickbait. In the end, ad companies, such as Google and Faceboook, act in the interests of advertisers, not users. Brave is an ad company. 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 op…
You, uh, don't need Brave to be the middleman for all user donations. That's exactly why they built the whole thing on top of decentralized cryptocurrency.
I’m not sure how decentralized BAT is when a single entity, Brave, controls it. Like the blog said, if you donate to a website that isn’t signed up on Brave’a program, Brave keeps the donation for itself.
“...its built-in advertising network and Ethereum-based crypto token exchange system.” 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.
Integrating those things into the browser is for:
1. user privacy – the data for ads is processed in your browser and then only meta is sent to the ad network. Rather than the current system, where Google's/Facebook's ad network fingerprints your browser and then tries to track everything you do on the web.
2. convenience – you can have the browser automatically donate money to the people/websites you visit most without any payment processor middleman.
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…
Do you believe ads should not exist in the world period? How do you justify such a broad-spanning assertion?
I did not say they should not necessarily exist, I said they should not exist in their current form. I also want to go back to the days where websites were a labour of love from individuals, not always for-profit enterprises. Ads right now are attention stealing, privacy invading monsters as a result of an arms race for users' notice. They actively harm users for profit. There are ways to advertise without harming users, and hence there is a way to make business work on the web. I will continue to block every ad I see and refuse to use websites that find ways to circumvent ad blockers until providers significantly change their behaviours.