Aesthesiaphilia

Article does not explain why it’s called the Enchilada Trap. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

That’s why it’s so juicy, they’re all such terrible people we don’t have to pick sides

Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It’s because he donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California’s state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

That has nothing to do with the software. And that’s a tiny donation. I’m not going to stop using an excellent tool because one of the guys in charge is a bigot. If that were the case, I wouldn’t be able to eat, drink, breathe, make a phone call, or do anything really. There’s a lot of people out there. Some of them are bigots. We should work to reduce their influence but we can’t boycott literally everything. Every alternative to Brave has at least one bigot involved in it, I guarantee it.

Brave’s replacement for ads doesn’t reward users in a meaningful amount

Not enough > 0, which is what you get without adblock. And I’m fine with occasional non-targeted and unobtrusive ads to help fund a service I use.

Brave’s BAT was built around the cryptocurrency ecosystem

Who gives a shit except crypto bros? And who gives a shit about crypto bros anyway?

Brave was also caught up in a privacy scandal in 2020, when it was revealed that the browser was adding affiliate codes to some URLs typed into the address bar.

Are these affiliate codes tracking you? No? Who gives a shit? It’s more money for Brave, same webpage for you.

That should have been enough to swear off Brave as a privacy-centric browser forever, considering the entire point of affiliate links is to collect data about the user and traffic source. For example, when you click an Amazon affiliate link in a web article, the publisher can see the exact products you purchase in the timeframe the tracking cookie remains active

Brave blocks cookies by default. Unless they specifically made an exception in their own browser for these codes, then this carefully-worded paragraph is just bullshit.

Much like the rest of this article. Bunch of poo-flinging. “Brave is involved in crypto, here’s all the bad things crypto has done, that’s why you shouldn’t use Brave”. Stupid guilt by association and a lot of hot air. Bringing a smoke machine to make people think there’s fire.

There’s a lot of effort going into making Brave seem like a bad browser and I don’t know why.

The issue at play is the big corporate companies

I’m guessing you weren’t around before these guys ate up the internet?

The issue at play IS the big corporate companies. Period.

Modern web usage has allowed for better accessibility to all ages and types.

One could argue that this is part of the problem.

They’re not compromising your privacy tho

So why is it in the privacy sub?

Their business model sounds 1000000% better than sucking up all your data and selling it to the highest bidder. Which is the alternative. Or people doing it for free/donations, which doesn’t scale.

So? Then Brave gets some extra money for something I was going to click on anyway. I don’t see the issue.

So? Then Brave gets some extra money for something I was going to click on anyway. I don’t see the issue.

They really don’t, not that I’ve seen anyway. Just stuff like this article that’s 10% them doing something perfectly reasonable and 90% people going “they just feel shady!”

If you can show me actually shady stuff they’ve done, I’m happy to change my mind.

Usually when I ask this, it’s something like “they do ads!” to which the obvious reply is “yeah they tell you that upfront”.

Brave is very open about how it pays for itself via ads. Y’all conspiracy theory turds are starting to annoy me.

How exactly were they known to be shady?

“I don’t know why, but it just FEELS wrong” is usually the hallmark of a marketing campaign against something. See: Hillary Clinton.

I have delayed sleep phase disorder so I’m one of the ones who got it. Nights are amazing, I function so much better and feel so much more energetic.

But it’s tough on your career. You will never move up working nights, because the faces the bosses see are there during the day. Sucks but that’s how it is.

Microsoft does not give a fuck about the tiny fraction of people worried about this.

Yeah it’s got a 300+ mile range, which is more than enough for me, even hauling. I don’t commute super long distances.

The thing that would make it work for me is free charging at work, which would also be one of the customers whose junk I’d be disposing. $0 fuel costs.

But the cost of the truck is just too much

I penciled out a business plan to use the lightning to run pallets and recyclable materials from several businesses to a nearby recycler, as a side gig. If the truck weren’t so dang expensive it would work. I could even run a small commercial cardboard baler off the truck.

People who don’t need trucks but want them anyway are the main force driving what types of trucks go to market. If it weren’t for that performative nonsense, automakers would go back to their primary market: practical work vehicles, without all the family suv bells and whistles. Therefore, cheaper.

All trucks are not built the same, that’s my point. I want a truck that’s a truck, not a minivan masquerading as a truck.