I generally don’t care about personalities involved in tech. I mean, Peter Theil money also started Brave. If that’s not a dealbreaker, then I don’t know what is. But tech people get weird at a certain point, and until they do something like sieg heil someone a couple times in a room full of wannabe Nazis, I’m pretty ambivalent if the product works.
That being said, Brave doesn’t spoof or mask canvas info when I’ve tested it, and IIRC audio info, leaving very specific aspects of browser fingerprinting open. It does spoof fonts, which is great, so maybe they’ll get there one day. So it’s not a silver bullet or Tor by any means.
Speaking of which, JS is a very easy way to track people across the internet as well. So I have to manage JS exposure when I need real privacy. So nothing’s perfect. No one is superhuman, and everything is subjective. If Brave works for you, cool. I’ve never trusted it, but I’ll use it when the moment demands something more than Vivaldi.
very reasonable, sounds like Tor or the like might be more suitable for your wants. i’ve tried vivaldi and it just didn’t work as well for me as brave, specially on mobile
btw. did you guess the other technolgy? it’s the rust programming language. swings and roundabouts, eh
Someone was posting on I think PrivacyGuides about Eich also being part of developing JS, which is why I mentioned it. I’m not a dev, so great, he also did Rust? OK. Well, great for him I guess?
I don’t like Chromium browsers, so I use Vivaldi rarely when I need one.
Done. Never used it much anyway.
brave is the best chromium browser out there and has been adopted by the popular Nobara and Zorin gaming linux distros
the comments on hackernews are quite enlightening
the original blog is now a month old
bonus quiz - what other technology was brendan eich instrumental in launching? fun! are we boycotting that too?
I generally don’t care about personalities involved in tech. I mean, Peter Theil money also started Brave. If that’s not a dealbreaker, then I don’t know what is. But tech people get weird at a certain point, and until they do something like sieg heil someone a couple times in a room full of wannabe Nazis, I’m pretty ambivalent if the product works.
That being said, Brave doesn’t spoof or mask canvas info when I’ve tested it, and IIRC audio info, leaving very specific aspects of browser fingerprinting open. It does spoof fonts, which is great, so maybe they’ll get there one day. So it’s not a silver bullet or Tor by any means.
Speaking of which, JS is a very easy way to track people across the internet as well. So I have to manage JS exposure when I need real privacy. So nothing’s perfect. No one is superhuman, and everything is subjective. If Brave works for you, cool. I’ve never trusted it, but I’ll use it when the moment demands something more than Vivaldi.
very reasonable, sounds like Tor or the like might be more suitable for your wants. i’ve tried vivaldi and it just didn’t work as well for me as brave, specially on mobile
btw. did you guess the other technolgy? it’s the rust programming language. swings and roundabouts, eh
Someone was posting on I think PrivacyGuides about Eich also being part of developing JS, which is why I mentioned it. I’m not a dev, so great, he also did Rust? OK. Well, great for him I guess?
I don’t like Chromium browsers, so I use Vivaldi rarely when I need one.
Spoken like a true brave cult member. It’s like a. Scientology post but with Brave instead of L. Ron Hubbard.
Imaging justifying Nora and Zorin as “popular” gaming Linux distros just because they have the cult browser.
CachyOS and Bazzite are right there.
there’s a brave cult like scientology?
tell me more!
You wish the brave cult was as structured as the Scientology cult.
But I didn’t say there was one in an organized sense. The brave cult is mostly working at the useful idiot level.
What I did say was that your post was Like a Scientology post. Equal in culty-ness yes. But I don’t give more credit than that.
what did i say that was idiotic or incorrect?
in actual fact we have mind control abilities in the cult, such that i know exactly what you are going to type
You should read the Wikipedia article I linked. It explains why I used the term.
it’s just an insult which is why i asked for further information
so what are you doing after you’ve finished playing with your own poop?
Read a bit more. The article explains the context. It’s more than an insult I promise. There is meaning behind it.