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Apparently Brave Browser "melts snowflakes" and is "based" because it's ran by bigots and Web3 grifters. (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As usual in the comments, programming.dev chuds care a whole lot about performatively not caring and get enraged at the thought of other people caring, thus the advocacy for Brave Browser entirely on the basis of "melting snowflakes" the way thumbheads roll coal because they want to "trigger" people that would prefer an inhabitable environment. morshupls

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

brave literally has a scam cryptocurrency wtf. if you hate firefox that much use its forks like Mullvad Browser (you dont have to use vpn).

loser soyfacing batchesting clowns

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Same energy as aging fundies going to Chick-Fil-A specifically out of spite against gay people. grillman

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even better is the money-man early backer of Brave was Peter Theil. Peter Theil is the reactionary alt-right billionaire who founded the CIA In-Q-Tel backed Palantir, a company infamous for selling big-brother-as-a-service to the US nat-sec apparatus. I don't trust anything he has his fingers in, especially if it is claiming to be selling you privacy while browsing the Internet. It's just like how Elon Musk, another billionaire who like Theil was raised apartheid South Africa, claims to be promoting freedom and privacy by buying Twiter.

If you care about privacy and an open web, stick with Mozilla Firefox and avoid honeypots like Brave.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Programming.dev chuds in the Lemmy federation want to "melt snowflakes" a lot more than they actually care about privacy and they're fine with walled gardens on the internet if they think they will have the keys to them. grillman

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

firefox is fine, they just hate that mozilla fired a homophobe once

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the comments:

Haters gonna hate. Make FF great again and people will start coming back.

Make FF great again

Why are cryptofascist dogs barking all across the neighborhood? sus-soviet

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Check out this recent whopper:

Mozilla wants to censor and cancel people, harder. And Google is the king of censorship.

I'm going to stick with Brave.

It takes a special level of galaxy-brained techbro computer toucher to be fine with spyware and malware and insidious social manipulation as long as they can say the n-word on the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People in the comments defending Brave or saying the article is shitty: climate change denier, edgy sexist username haver, freeze-peach guy, anticommunist troll on Lemmygrad, person unironically talking about snowflakes and doing the ”libs triggered” bit

Sure isn't changing my preconception of Brave being a chud browser.

There's also this gem:

All I read is cryptocurrency hating.

Yeah, hating cryptocurrency is good.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

All I read is cryptocurrency hating.

All the chud reads is people not liking planet-burning grifts that make kiddie creeping techbros richer.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you ever installed Brave you failed a series of litmus tests.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

de-volition "You are currently clicking the link for a browser that will try to sell you a cryptocurrency every 15 minutes. Why?"

de-visual-calculus "From the look of this UI and logo, the crypto grfiting was priority number one."

de-endurance"He's not kidding about the visuals."

de-volition "Taking emergency action."

You come to sitting in your computer chair, facing away from your desk to look out the window. You can't remember what you sat down to do, but you get the sense it wasn't important.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Amazing comment. order-of-lenin

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

de-half-light you should smash your computer just to be safe

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (8 children)

what is actually the best "secure" browser? aren't both brave and duckduckgo ran by bigots? any people would recommend?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just use Firefox with ublock origin. Maybe get a VPN if you're serious about anonymous browsing. There's rapidly diminishing returns in obsessing over privacy tools compared to changing your browsing habits.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. You have to consider your threat profile. Most data harvesting isn't aimed at you per-se, you're just in the target audience.

If you're just trying to be a responsible citizen who'se reasonably informed and likes their privacy. A decent browser, blocker, and VPN will protect you from 99% of casual grift & grime.

Unless you're planning something that'll get you assigned an Agent somewhere, in which case you should log off and not talk around electronics at all.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

somewhat concerned that with the increasing rise of blatant fascism in the US the definition of a "threat" worth keeping an eye on will become a group me and most other cool left wing people will be included in

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It's even worse than diminishing returns—the more privacy extensions and add-ons you install the more identifiable you are through browser fingerprinting

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not saying you can't use Brave if that's what you really want to do and see no other viable options. I posted this specifically because of the take that it's "based" to "melt snowflakes" by choosing a browser specifically because it's ran by loud bigoted Web3 grifters.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I need more information on DuckDuckGo being a milkshake duck, please

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

pretty sure its just the most widely used thing with a couple of ok privacy addons. firefox with ublock and a vpn. you could go deeper but that probably increases the chance that you stand out. iirc just having too many addons installed can make you stand out

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Libertarians being so pro-open source and still believing the things they do is one of the greatest mysteries of our time

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been seeing this recently now where people are trying to say that understanding emotions about how you feel about something is dumb if two other people disagree with you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wtf-am-i-reading

How does that work?

"I feel good today!" niko-happy

Two malding chanlords: "No, you don't. You're deranged and (suicide demand here)." frothingfash frothingfash

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Two more chuds: makes video about you "HEY GUYS THE WOKE ARE TRYING TO MAKE YOU CRY AND IF YOU DO, THEN YOU ARE NOT A MAN!"

and then a black Chud appears: "Yeah man, I don't ever show emotions. Dead ass like a Wall when I get called a bitch by my dad!"

And then a pick me appears: "I like guys who literally make themselves emotionless, anyone who says otherwise never had to swim in men tears."

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

they're advertising on NPR

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

yea

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