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They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh
They just gained me as an user. Haven't used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT stuff and crypto has forced me on it.
Why would someone use this over Metamask?
iirc: originally brave embedded metamask but with their own branding, metamask then changed their license so that other companies couldn't do that without paying a license fee, so the brave version stayed on the older version without the license fee and slowly became outdated and less useful. I guess this is them updating their fork from that point and adding some features back.
They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh
This kind of comment strikes me as nonproductive. HN seems majority anti-crypto and anti-NFT, and that’s fine, but when every crypto adjacent thread winds up littered with these kinds of comments (not addressing the feature specifically, but instead expressing non-pointed distaste for the ecosystem) it seriously degrades the quality of discussion possible.
They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh
Brave was all about crypto from the beginning: Basic Attention Token
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Okay... I feel like an idiot: I didn't realize there was a Chromium browser -- I thought there were just Chromium-based browsers (like SRWare Iron which I haven't touched in over ten years). Will check this out but to get it close to what Brave does for my useage I will need to add adblocking and a few other privacy things first (hopefully that's all supported and works).
Here: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/
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They just gained me as an user. Haven't used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT stuff and crypto has forced me on it.
What use case and/or value do you see useful to you/others and why can't that be achieved with existing/other technology?
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I'm hearing this a lot, but why do you think NFTs are a scam?
Some are and they are overfitting those cases to an entire technology. It's understandable to see that nuance get lost on Twitter, but disappointing to see on a tech forum. It's like discounting email because it enables nigerian prince scams.
https://www.wired.com/2001/12/buy-a-star-but-its-not-yours/
But good news! You can also get your star registered on the blockchain now. Whether that's any better than the ISR's legacy offering (a certificate and an entry in their own ledger) is up to you.
https://nftevening.com/star-naming-registry-gets-an-nft-twis...
Really, both products are just selling a story- a physical ledger in a vault in Geneva in the first instance, now updated to be an entry on a distributed ledger. These blockchain NFTs just make it easier for people who don't have the infrastructure of a company like the ISR to share one big ledger and dump whatever they want on there and call it an NFT.
The equivalent of email here is the blockchain ledger technology, the equivalent of Nigerian email scams are NFTs.
I suppose there might be some genuinely useful or interesting non-fungible blockchain tokens, but entries on a ledger that say you own a jpeg or whatever are not any more interesting than entries in ISR's Genevan vault.
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This kind of comment strikes me as nonproductive. HN seems majority anti-crypto and anti-NFT, and that’s fine, but when every crypto adjacent thread winds up littered with these kinds of comments (not addressing the feature specifically, but instead expressing non-pointed distaste for the ecosystem) it seriously degrades the quality of discussion possible.
Your comment is arguably less useful, no? Arguably their comment is useful to Brave developers, assuming they care about user feedback.
They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh
This kind of comment strikes me as nonproductive. HN seems majority anti-crypto and anti-NFT, and that’s fine, but when every crypto adjacent thread winds up littered with these kinds of comments (not addressing the feature specifically, but instead expressing non-pointed distaste for the ecosystem) it seriously degrades the quality of discussion possible.