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Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by ozten »

bbondy wrote: post #48
ozten wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I recently tried to adopt Brave on iOS. There in-app marketing messages are cringe-worthy[1] and there isn't a way to opt-out as far as I have found. This seems unethical, as I consider these messages as unwanted advertisements for MLM crypto projects. Brave removes paid ads from the internet, but subjects me to in-app advertisements for pyramid schemes (Sorry, I mean ground floor crypto investment opportunit…

> there isn't a way to opt-out as far as I have found. Navigate to: brave://settings/wallet Set Default cyrptocurrency wallet to None, and set Show Brave Wallet icon on toolbar to off

Thank you for your help.

1) I'm probably dumb, but on iOS putting brave://settings/wallet into the address bar puts me into Brave search results. No leading or trailing spaces.

2) This setting will disable in-app marketing messages? I'm interested in disabling the "Brave Rewards" in app notifications.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by faeyanpiraat »

yrral wrote: post #40
nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

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

I'm hearing this a lot, but why do you think NFTs are a scam?

Maybe not in a literal sense, but in a way that it’s a useless distraction wasting everyone’s time.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by faeyanpiraat »

Nicksil wrote: post #25
sergiotapia wrote: post #21

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What are you switching to? The alternatives is a much worse browser Firefox, a botnet Google Chrome, or some weird chinese spy Opera. What are you going to use?

>a much worse browser Firefox How do you figure?

FF devtools is a pain to use compared to Chrome.

Apart from that from a user perspective FF is just as good as Chrome.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by rattlesnakedave »

loceng wrote: post #53
rattlesnakedave wrote: post #38

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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.

Is there a proper forum for HN metadiscussion? My beef isn't with this comment specifically, but rather the low quality discussion that regularly occurs in crypto threads.

In the best possible light, yes, it could be interpreted as criticism for the devs. As I read it, it seems like "I don't like crypto or NFTs so I'm leaving." Which again: perfectly reasonable sentiment. That's fine if it's how you feel.

However, I feel a more meaningful comment would have included what specifically about this feature was over the line and why (especially given the presence of BAT).

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by dartharva »

beepbooptheory wrote: post #55
dartharva wrote: post #44

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Here: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/

Yeah if you got a million CPUs to compile the darn thing!

Why? They already provide compiled binaries: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...

Portapps build: https://portapps.io/app/ungoogled-chromium-portable/

If you're not satisfied with them, there are even more options here: https://chromium.woolyss.com/

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by joeberon »

yrral wrote: post #40
nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

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

I'm hearing this a lot, but why do you think NFTs are a scam?

They actually facilitate no transfer of ownership of copyright, which is something that isn't even possible in many countries, and further most are sold even without explicit licensing. The NFT also does not contain the art, but mostly just a link to the art on a centralised server, and therefore is still reliant on that centralised server being up and pointing to the correct piece of art. This means that a vast majority of NFTs do not have any real meaning, and are basically just a digital coin with a fancy colour.

So the vast majority of NFTs have no real meaning, then add on top of this that a vast majority of blockchains still use the insanely inefficient and environmentally damaging proof of work (a single Ethereum transaction uses 48.14 kWh of energy!!!), that the platform is used for money laundering, that many people are pressuring others into getting into it so that they buy their NFTs (it's also a Ponzi scheme), and finally that a lot of legitimate artists are having their art stolen (there's nothing stopping you from minting an NFT of someone else's art)

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by mikece »

freeAgent wrote: post #23
mikece wrote: post #2

I would be happier if Brave made an "Enterprise" version of their browser without the Tor or crypto stuff. My company recently banned the use of Brave because it is a Tor client. I had been using Brave as a Chrome-adjacent browser for testing and web dev but I've had to go back to the Google-monitored version of Chrome.

Why not use Edge?

The point of FF or Brave is to not have Google collecting telemetry info about my browser usage. I am even less inclined to let Microsoft get such info and their info gathering in Edge is supposed to be worse (probably because they don't have a clue what they need so they are over-collecting in the hopes they can query out what for whatever their needs are).

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by gunapologist99 »

Nicksil wrote: post #25
sergiotapia wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you switching to? The alternatives is a much worse browser Firefox, a botnet Google Chrome, or some weird chinese spy Opera. What are you going to use?

>a much worse browser Firefox How do you figure?

Firefox has turned anti-privacy, and aside from any technical issues, it seems it is being driven entirely by Google's agenda.

It just seems to be wandering around and doesn't lead in any appreciable way anymore.

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