installing nothing at all is far better, that’s why Orion and brave are better for privacy, at least in apple ecosystem

Is that your gut feel or is that actually measurable? How many bits of information do you get?

Not the poster, but for me MacOS Orion (without stop the madness or little snitch etc) or anything else scores 16.07 bits and 98% ad block.

I had a look at Kagi official discord and Vlad (HN: @freediver) says they let the eff test run as non-malicious, i.e. other sites may not be able to see as much.

Fediverse, sadly, goes against the full experience we requiere

The objective is desc network but also want a single place for all our stuff, topics, news, etc

Same reason why Reddit haven’t been replaced yet :/

This is what traditional forums excel at - for instance, a niche-specific forum may also contain off-topic boards for topics unrelated to the niche, such as general current affairs or media.

wrt to Reddit, I mean, Lemmy does exist, but much like Mastodon instances try to be "another Twitter", Lemmy (instances) also tries to be "another Reddit". At the end of the day, it's a human/userbase problem of "platforms change, hivemind doesn't".

You lost me at Onedrive. As a heavy O365 user it’s one of the worst headaches day-to-day.

Hey brave, get ride of crypto stuff and you’ll get users back

You guy are actually building a good browser

I don't understand why this complaint survives, it seems a myth at this point.

Open a fresh install of Brave. No crypto things are happening. There's one button inviting you to enable it, which you can dismiss with 2 clicks. It will never ask again.

Every time I disable a Brave Rewards setting, a new one seems to pop up. It's in the address bar, it's on the startup page, it's in the sidebar quick menu, it's in another section of the startup page, it's in the tab bar when I open the browser settings, the crypto stuff is everywhere.

I wish they'd auto hide all that crap for you after you click "not interested in cryptocurrency stuff".

It’s pretty simple to turn all that off. It’s bloat, for sure, but can be made invisible.

If they could just fix the back-button on Brave iOS so it doesn’t occasionally pick a completely different tab, I’ll be happy.

> simple to turn all that off

Technically, in the browser, yes. Culturally, at the organization level, no.

Just use Cromite. Brave already proved they can't be trusted.

May I ask why you think so?

I uninstalled brave as the story about injection affiliate links broke: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088549.

Sorry I don't really understand your comment (English isn't my native language).

So there was / is a legitimate data structure which stores these affiliate links and someone accidentally used it as a source for the url auto completion?

I assume the legitimate reason to store affiliate links, are things like the widgets on the "new tab" page?

If that really was an honest mistake I'm sorry for spreading stories like this, without checking them first in more detail.

Brave published a blog post regarding this feature/news; you can read more (as well as see images of the feature in action) at https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/. I hope this helps!

oh now i get it, thanks :)

Am surprised that are surprised with this, am pretty sure AI is already trained with internet data… Reddit and other sites are very easy to scrap

It means Microsoft is trying to buy AI before it goes mainstream

Microsoft bought Access, PowerPoint, Flight Simulator, Skype, GitHub, LinkedIn, etc

That’s part of the game…

>Microsoft bought Access, PowerPoint, Flight Simulator, Skype, GitHub, LinkedIn, etc

Don't forget Excel, and even the original MS-DOS. In fact it would be hard to name a single successful Microsoft product that wasn't an acquisition.

Given the typical failure rate of acquisitions, this is even more impressive.

Excel was not an acquisition. Not sure where you got that from.

Windows?

Xbox?

Windows 10 looking real good right now

Hmmm I have de bloated several windows 10 machines, just be careful and don’t do 100% what a script does. Titus tech has a good sample on his blog, just go step by step. Don’t need Cortana then disable that and so on

Yup that’s the answer, and cyber security, we had to add thousand of code lines in order to circumvent login properties and such, in order to make software more secure (and less private)

This whole post and comments are just incredible … can we predict one society success purely on parasite composition?