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Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by swasheck »

Moldoteck wrote: post #19
_the_special_ wrote: post #3

The first browser to index (locally preferably) my browsing history and help me extract/surface useful information from previous pages I have visited will win me over. So far they all seem to be offering the same kind of AI that will crawl the current page and extract information from it.

I guess this can be done with an extension that would work on all browsers. Like parse each page, save compressed text that supports fast decompressing (maybe even images), build tf/idf + cosine distance for verbantim searches & save in db and maybe add some ai to enhance the search. The next steps would be custom ai searches like "show me pages related to x", it'll quickly decompress the pages & apply the search for…

i’d want a feature to only do this for pages i mark as interesting (so, a bookmarked page i guess). i may not care to recall the match summary of as milan vs napoli.

i have rafts of bookmarked pages, but i don’t know which of the 45 postgres-related pages contains a helpful sentence or phrase about indexing that i think i remember reading a few months ago.

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by rekoil »

donkeyboy wrote: post #2

Different topic, but can someone talk about which browser they use now? I’ve used Chrome for the past N years with ublock Origin, but recently I’ve been getting some ads on Youtube. Also some websites just didn’t work in Chrome. I switched to Brave a week ago and things seem ok, but it’s a weird browser with Tor built in, and also Spotify.com always crashes with a Memory problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on brow…

Been using Brave since I think around 2019? Very happy with it, love the integration of IPFS, ENS, Unstoppable domains, and the removal of all the Google trash present in Chromium. Fully end-to-end encrypted sync as well. Don't use Tor much, but it's great that it's easily accessible if I need it.

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by bheadmaster »

rekoil wrote: post #30
temp0826 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're at the top of the pyramid for their shitcoin. Probably one of the best modern grifts out there.

And regular advertising (where the audience doesn't get paid for consuming adverts) isn't a grift?

Regular advertising doesn't promise the user that they will get paid for clicking ads.

Regardless, whataboutism doesn't make Brave's scheme any less of a grift.

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

#34

Post by rekoil »

ss64 wrote: post #22

Friends don't let friends use Brave.

I really don't get this hate Brave gets on HN and other tech forums. It's a de-Googled Chromium fork which retains support for Manifest v2 extensions and has a bunch of neat extra features like first-party ad-blocking, an (underused and probably at this point should be considered a failed experiment) advertising network where users are paid for the ads they consume, Tor-integration, Web3 integrations.

Yes, it defaults to enabling their advertising features, but that's just it, a default setting, it isn't hard to disable if you don't want to "take part of the experiment".

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by andybak »

Asked it to extract some data from a spreadsheet. It's first answer was wrong. I corrected it. It's second answer was wrong.

That's when I quit.

(It was a simple sheet. I said "list the names of all items where [column name] is false". There was about 60 rows)

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by alisonatwork »

donkeyboy wrote: post #2

Different topic, but can someone talk about which browser they use now? I’ve used Chrome for the past N years with ublock Origin, but recently I’ve been getting some ads on Youtube. Also some websites just didn’t work in Chrome. I switched to Brave a week ago and things seem ok, but it’s a weird browser with Tor built in, and also Spotify.com always crashes with a Memory problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on brow…

Cromite[0] is the best on Android, it's a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium.

Cromite has a desktop build, but it's a bit more experimental than the mobile build, so you can use Ungoogled Chromium[1] instead. Ungoogled is also a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium. Check the beta flags to enable some more interesting features like getClientRect anti-fingerprinting measures (unfortunately breaks some React-based sites that go into infinite re-render loop).

Both of these browsers selectively include patches from Brave, but they are community-oriented builds so imo more trustworthy than Brave, which continues to package various shady anti-features and always will because it's backed by a for-profit company.

LibreWolf[2] is the nicest Firefox-based one for desktop, I think. It's pretty hardcore, though, I most only use it to visit mainstream social media sites.

I tried a bunch of the Firefox-based ones on mobile and none of them clicked for me. Cromite is just too slick on Android. Put the address bar at the bottom and off you go. Only downside is no online syncing of tabs and bookmarks, but meh. You can save all open tabs to bookmark bar in one hit then export your bookmarks, send the file through whatever E2EE channel you want to your other device, import and reopen them again.

[0] https://github.com/uazo/cromite

[1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

[2] https://librewolf.net/

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by jorvi »

rekoil wrote: post #34
ss64 wrote: post #22

Friends don't let friends use Brave.

I really don't get this hate Brave gets on HN and other tech forums. It's a de-Googled Chromium fork which retains support for Manifest v2 extensions and has a bunch of neat extra features like first-party ad-blocking, an (underused and probably at this point should be considered a failed experiment) advertising network where users are paid for the ads they consume, Tor-integration, Web3 integrations. Yes, it default…

> Yes, it defaults to enabling their advertising features

It does not, you have to opt in.

You are right in the rest of your comment thought. And in general, when you compare default configs, Brave does far more to protect your privacy than Firefox does.

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by rekoil »

bheadmaster wrote: post #33
rekoil wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And regular advertising (where the audience doesn't get paid for consuming adverts) isn't a grift?

Regular advertising doesn't promise the user that they will get paid for clicking ads. Regardless, whataboutism doesn't make Brave's scheme any less of a grift.

Fair enough, but you do get paid so that isn't a broken promise or anything, it's just not that much because their ad network hasn't really been much of an ad network. I had it enabled for a while, thought it was a great idea, but it's so little money that I've gone back to just disabling it personally.

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by rekoil »

jorvi wrote: post #37
rekoil wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't get this hate Brave gets on HN and other tech forums. It's a de-Googled Chromium fork which retains support for Manifest v2 extensions and has a bunch of neat extra features like first-party ad-blocking, an (underused and probably at this point should be considered a failed experiment) advertising network where users are paid for the ads they consume, Tor-integration, Web3 integrations. Yes, it default…

> Yes, it defaults to enabling their advertising features It does not, you have to opt in. You are right in the rest of your comment thought. And in general, when you compare default configs, Brave does far more to protect your privacy than Firefox does.

Oh it's opt-in now? It used to be opt-out, good change.

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by Delumine »

donkeyboy wrote: post #2

Different topic, but can someone talk about which browser they use now? I’ve used Chrome for the past N years with ublock Origin, but recently I’ve been getting some ads on Youtube. Also some websites just didn’t work in Chrome. I switched to Brave a week ago and things seem ok, but it’s a weird browser with Tor built in, and also Spotify.com always crashes with a Memory problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on brow…

I love edge, even before the AI stuff, it had a great feature set and less memory consumption than Chrome
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