Switch to what? Chrome? Because you don't like having to re-opt-in to studies? That would be ludicrous given Google's privacy track record. Opera? They're owned by a Chinese investment firm now. Edge? MS's whole OS is based on data collection.

Typing this from a new Brave install. Just switched from Firefox after their handling of this.

Have they stopped whitelisting Facebook and Twitter in their "tracking blocker" yet?

The BS coming from their blog post surrounding this whitelist makes me distrust them completely: "Loading a script from an edge-cache does not track a user without third-party cookies or equivalent browser-local storage" (...) "Given that most users on the web share IP addresses with other users because of NAT, it is unlikely this can be used to reliably track users"

Not only it's quite possible to know if the user is behind CGNAT or not, meaning the tracking works just fine for millions of users, but carriers have been known to inject user IDs in the replies of users behind CGNAT.

Apparently not. Would there be a way via settings to just explicitly blacklist?

The handling, or the bug itself? Sound like the damage control is fine (although worrying that they have no way to distribute hotfixes more rapidly than this).

The bug in the first place, on the other hand, seems pretty negligent. Not that it's incomprehensible, just pretty stupid.

Anyhow, good luck with brave!

The bug in the first place. That we can't easily rollback this "upgrade" as well.

Lynx, Midori, Safari, IE6. Maybe Palemoon, Samsung browser is another possibility. Maxthon was popular for a bit. Maybe you're super 1337 and run in only curl or wget.

He has moved to Lynx.

CVE-2016-9179 was published about Lynx in November 2016. Lynx took more than 5 minutes to release an update, with the fix included [1] in 2.8.9dev.11 not reaching a production release until July 2018 — almost two years after the CVE was published.

With a response time like that, I don't see how Lynx will satisfy their "5 minute fix" need any more than Firefox did.

[1] https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES

I'm curious, do you switch at every fuck up?

Then it's only a matter of time until you come back to Firefox, or maybe you'll end up making your own web browser?

And operating system, and smartphone, and processor, and video card.

Or maybe they take offence at your overall tone? You're clearly not interested in being constructive.

This kind of toxicity is exactly why many of us have "uninstalled" Reddit and the like.

Please refrain from bringing that toxicity to HN.

“Many commenters have spent their Saturday morning pushing a narrative that appeals to emotion.”

“Toxicity.”

Goes both ways.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

> It is too late to listen to reason. Many commenters have spent their Saturday morning pushing a narrative that appeals to emotion.

Your comment, my comment, that comment, none of them are substantive. Why isn't that comment removed yet?

It's a matter of degree. Your comments went an order of magnitude further over the line.

I am positive my first comment on this thread was not an order of magnitude over the line, if we can quantifiably measure such a thing, and it got censored anyway. "I just switched my browser. Bye bye Firefox."

I mean if you want me to be reflective it's really not going to work if we're refusing to admit that either both of these comments should have been censored or the one above should not have been censored. But I get it, life's not fair and the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Firefox zealots get to railroad commenters on HN, noted, I certainly won't engage in these discussions again.

I can't consider only your first comment when you posted nine of them.

No, we’re not flagging you for your use of swear words; we’re flagging you for your lack of construction to the conversation. You clearly are not interested in having a conversation

To what?