bit overblown. It's not all "links", they did the redirect for the autocomplete of "binance.us" and they are correcting it. https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Opera is still proprietary, and, uh, also they got caught doing some stuff involving predatory short-term loans to the impoverished in African countries, not to mention their CEO was also involved in an entirely different Chinese conglomerate that was also involved with fraud and some lending thing. Oh yeah and if you haven't used it since 2006: Opera is Chromium now, and the company behind it got sold a time or two.
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
Firefox, like always.
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#23Being 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.
Agreed, I haven't seen or heard anything off kilter with Firefox in a very very long time and they have always been on the forefront of privacy and development features.
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#24It's as if Brave is performance art put on by Mozilla's advertising department.
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#25I'm going to have to switch browser AGAIN? Dammit. Is Opera safe or what shady shit have they done? I haven't used Opera since Opera back in 2006. God I miss the Presto engine and dragonfly. Can I go back to them or they doing shady stuff?
Just use Firefox (or one of the forks that removes builtin extensions and the like). For all of its problems, Mozilla is still probably the best bet we have at building a web browser that won't do shady things (it will do some annoying things, like having Pocket built in by default, but for the most part they still try to protect your privacy, don't force you into creepy payment models and things like Brave tries to do, etc.)
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#26I am an enthusiastic Brave user - but seeing stories like these make me wonder if I'd be better off configuring Firefox to be more secure/private and using that.
As a privacy and transparency advocate, it disappoints me to see Brave fail to pass the test, especially considering that privacy and transparency are supposed to be the browser's MO.
Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
#27bit overblown. It's not all "links", they did the redirect for the autocomplete of "binance.us" and they are correcting it. https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201
>and they are correcting it.
Only after getting caught. It's not like you can 'accidentally' write a bunch of code and push it out.
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#28Brave has to pay salaries - I suppose this is better than selling user data. Chrome is subsidized by search and Firefox gets money from Google.
The revenue model for browsers is fucked up.
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#29Being 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.
Agree. Not sure what else needs to happen to encourage Chromium users to finally give Firefox a try.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Opera is still proprietary, and, uh, also they got caught doing some stuff involving predatory short-term loans to the impoverished in African countries, not to mention their CEO was also involved in an entirely different Chinese conglomerate that was also involved with fraud and some lending thing. Oh yeah and if you haven't used it since 2006: Opera is Chromium now, and the company behind it got sold a time or two.
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-for-feature chrome copy for watching encrypted netflix.