Was about to say, where did I hear that before… 🤔

I wouldn’t say that, these people that use fake news are the ones that push fake news. Every accusation is a confession, we shouldn’t get into the habit of reflexively rejecting everything monied interests project onto others unfairly. It’s a big problem, and it leads to a loss of credibility to not recognize the harms in something, or the wrongdoing, because it’s used cynically by a group trying to make it worse.

Ie, voting. The ones trying to cheat are accusing the ones not cheating of cheating. Do we defend all elections as fair because they projected that onto us, when they are cheating? According to the democratic establishment, yes. We are doomed to the republic being dead already and replaced with an unthinkable autocracy run by the worst people in the country if we continue to follow the lead of that establishment of democrats in being the opposition in fact. But I digress there.

We should turn their words and projections against them, with their own terms, with our own populists, real populists that channel anger towards it’s source, rather than the fake populism of the right that misdirects it. It’s the only way in fact, we could take a large part of the republican base, enough to overcome the cheating the republicans are planning on doing, in the succession fight, with a popular platform, that is aggressive, and turns their projections back on them, fake news, voter fraud, captured federal agencies, you name it.

careful you don’t smack youself in the face with that knee jerk

Brave does not collect user data at all by default, and any opt-in system, such as Brave Rewards or premium VPN, blinds us to user id, no record linkability either

is that THE cambridge analytica? i assume .org is something using the name in irony

and blamed users for not knowing since it’s open source and anyone concerned should have read the source.

Because those lists are usually just ads themselves.

Because it has ad blockers built in, has Tor built in, blocks trackers by default, and is very upfront and open about how they use your data if you choose to let them. A big part of what this article misses is that the feature is opt-in. It is turned off by default. Some people are weird and want personalized ads, in which case this feature is a hell of a lot more secure than other browsers who have to opt-out of tracking and don’t give a shit about your PII.

Oh wait, I forgot where I was. Umm, I mean… Brave bad! Bad browser!

alternative with free sync and password manager?

Yeah, this is what so many people miss: privacy in the moment of browsing is only one of several problems. There’s also the much longer term problem of web standards developing in such a way as to facilitate the stripping of privacy, and using a browser that facilitates Google’s hegemony over those standards enables that.

I wish vanadium was available independently of Graphene