Hey hold on, I also hate Ubuntu because of how awful gnome is. Can’t blame everything on snap!

oh, hrm. Im not sure what specific build you’re using, but the one I’m using has mechanisms for installing normal adblockers like ublockorigin. note: afaik, this doesn’t solve the problem indicated in this thread – I’m operating on the basis that the blocking functionality will be nerfed. However for me, I use it purely for (stuff that doesnt work in firefox) and my jellyfin server (since firefox is kinda particular about hevc videos…you can kinda get them to work in windows, but in many cases I dont fully understand jellyfin still tries to transcode to 264).

worth stating that “because someone distasteful is using it” is a reasonable misunderstanding due to me assuming some knowledge. Brave was created because firefox kicked a homophobe out and he wanted to make a browser. Said person is also clearly a cryptonut, which makes him a yet more negative person in my book. Now, unrelated to that base, you have a lot of people out there who are promoting it by my personal experience in more privacy centric groups is that these promoters are often quite…unsavory. Is that enough to stop using software? not necessarily. Is it enough when there are far better options out there? to me, absolutely.

yep :(

very disappointing all round. on a sliding scale thats not the worst thing brave has done, but given that the entire browser was literally birthed from “we don’t want your hate here” its hard to avoid.

lol I dont know what this means. all i can say is i misread the message as not-a-joke before realizing i was wrong and then deleted the message. whole process took roughly 30 seconds.

however its relatively rare that an ad company provides a bunch of services I want to use. The only exception i can think of is google.

obvs its hard to avoid gmaps because the alternatives are beyond godawful (no, openstreetmaps, i didn’t want to go to the coffee shop of the same name in connecticut, I wanted to go to the one 3 km away), but for youtube I use a python tool called youtube-local which is very very effective, strong rec. Im sure google will defeat them eventually, but so far all of the incremental “block a little of this, block a little of that” stuff the g-man has been doing has been bypassed within a few days. Viewtube is also pretty easy to self-host, but they never quite figured out how to make the UI work.

Privacydotcom

Privacydotcom is free Does revolut pay you to use it?

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Privacydotcom is amazing

Every time I try to buy with PayPal I have to use a new account cause they ban me (VPN, simple login, VoIP phone, etc will all do it).

“ahead of its time”? Just because Google tries to reinvent text chat every 3 seconds doesn’t mean there are new things to add

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I’d love to see your list of “stupid” things… not immoral, vicious, incendiary, criminal, etc…but stupid. None of those things is stupid if they are also your fundamental mandate.

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It’s in a foreign language called unnecessary gatekeeping

But ads are still often delivered by content delivery which is blockable by domain, hence the reason piholes work. Not that in-stream ads aren’t the future, perhaps, but life finds a way.

I still to this day don’t know how to get back to the tab I was on in firefox-android if I get to the new tab screen. It’s been 2 or 3 years since the redesign.

Iirc there was also some drama about the money they collect not going to the promised destination. Anywhere other than silicon valley this might be called fraud.

No I’m pro lgbtq folks having rights

To be fair, even in 2006 the Mozilla corporation was never going to outspend Firefox

Especially not given how much Mozilla wastes on executive compensation ;)