Edit: Why do so many new accounts (green text) post to any thread about Brave?
well, except for the fact that it's still a chromium browser and google really sets the general agenda for all chromium browsers.
For example the current controversial change: Google says "slow web is bad" and deprecates an API that allowed extensions to do almost unlimited work for any web page. Oops. Adblockers depended on that and did want to do almost unlimited work for any web page, and that wasn't a bug, but the API gets dropped, AIUI because Google wants performance. The reason doesn't matter though. Google gets to set the agenda, no matter what its reasons are.
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a) ongoing cost of merging
b) security updates delayed because of merging.
It's possible the limit is high enough that it wont be a problem in practice though.
On desktop I browse differently, and use extensions, so Firefox with uBlock Origin works perfectly for me on desktop
What I miss most using Firefox is the ability to customize almost everything.
ungoogled-chromium A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency
ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services. It also features some tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency (almost all of which require manual activation or enabling).
ungoogled-chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible. Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, ungoogled-chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium.
There's a pretty ridiculous amount of astroturfing going on in these comments.
Note, however, that accounts posting opposing views on a topic doesn't count as evidence of astroturfing—only evidence that people have opposing views on the topic, which is the most routine of internet forum facts.
Lots more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
As a long-time Chrome user, I have a set of useful extensions that have become a part of my daily browsing experience. I found converting to Brave an easy transition since everything I’m used to in Chrome is still available, right down to the developer tools.
As far as I can tell, Brave is basically Chrome with built-in Adblock and anti-tracking, plus an innovative mechanism for user-controlled advertising and content-author micropayments. I’m very impressed.
(not advocating for Brave, I'm a happy Firefox user. Just saying...)
Also don't know what you're talking about with items 3-4, I have 3rd party extensions loaded, it was pretty easy, and I don't get any error messages on startup.
Also I love the fact that all the Chrome extensions work in Brave.
It seems more like "Chrome, with some plugins" than anything else. It's a shame really, I like the concept of the BAT project, I'd be interested in using it as a plugin for Firefox, but I'm not interested enough to switch browsers and lose all the features and plugins I'm used to in Firefox.
You can start here: https://github.com/brave
Public ledger nicely allows anyone to see what's going on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality sounds fancy but you are using it wrong, on top of what it would mean if we were talking about votes being false counting tokens as votes.
It shows exactly what I said was going on.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality sounds fancy but you are using it wrong
The meaning of plurality of tokens as an analogue to a plurality of votes is clear, but if not, pretend that I've spelled it out for you. Do you have any objections to the substance of my argument, or did you just come to provide evidence in support?
Any fool can google `site:news.ycombinator.com brendaneich lern_to_spel` and see your posts over the years, showing ill will used to justify bogus claims. Somehow you always fade away under rational discourse. It's boring but I'm happy to have another run-around again.
If I deposit my dollars in the bank, are they no longer mine? The last time we had this discussion, I erroneously claimed you controlled a majority of the tokens, and you corrected me that it was only a plurality. Has anything actually changed since then, or are you still just quibbling over insubstantial details?
> Any fool can google `site:news.ycombinator.com brendaneich lern_to_spel` and see your posts over the years
And any person with half a brain can remove the "brendaneich" from the query and see that I often call out companies and people with dubious ethics. You happen to have shown poor ethical judgment on more than one occasion, as any fool who Googles "Brendan Eich" can see, but those past lapses are different from this one, so let's try to stay on topic.
So the rest of us HN users are fools?
Anyway... why I am writing this comment: I was just going through some of my old comments and noticed you replied to one of them 5 days after I posted. That was two months ago, so it won't let me reply now, so here I am.
Comments in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830172
I claimed that Brave removes a website's ads and replaces it with Brave's ads. You called me "misinformed". Is the Flying Spaghetti Monster placing those ads there, is it malware placing those ads there (well, technically yes, but I digress)? I'm not impressed with your attitude/ethics. If I needed another reason not to use Brave, there it is.
Edit only six minutes after posting: Interesing.
You said OP used the word wrong but he didn't. He was wrong about his statement but not about his word use. If you're going to correct people you should probably be correct yourself.
To be more specific, my issues with Brave are:
- Still uses the Chrome Web Store as main store
- Does not have an easy way to load packaged extensions from 3rd party sources
- Even after adding them as unpacked, you still get the same annoying popup every time you open the browser.
- I received notices that "My account was waiting for a deposit" the entire time, even though I never allocated any money to anyone
- Tipping amounts are fixed
I always saw Brave as "not chrome, and not as much of a change as Firefox", but their approach seem lazy, features halfassed at best and the sneaky anti-features that Chrome has been adding to push users to lock into Google stuff (see all my remarks about extensions) not addressed at all.
I'm using Firefox as main browser now, and I haven't been missing brave once.