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AI summary:

• Brave Browser has marketed itself as a privacy-preserving web browser and has gained attention from cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
• The company behind Brave, founded by Brendan Eich, faced backlash due to Eich’s previous donation in support of California’s Proposition 8, which aimed to ban same-sex marriage.
• Brave initially planned to replace ads with its own ad units and split revenue with publishers, but this idea was met with legal issues and criticism from both inside and outside the company.
• Brave introduced Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) as a way to reward users for viewing ads and content, but the rewards are minimal and the value of BAT is volatile.
• Brave has incorporated various cryptocurrency-related features, including a full crypto wallet, but many of its crypto partners have faced controversies and scandals.
• Brave was involved in a privacy scandal in which affiliate codes were added to URLs typed into the address bar, allowing the company to collect revenue from user signups or purchases.
• The article concludes that Brave is a flawed software project and should not be used, recommending Firefox or Vivaldi as privacy-focused alternatives.

Yeah, particularly chat in a meeting, it feels so barebones.

Curious – not saying it’s great, but I don’t think the Zoom UX is much better, personally. What bothers you about Teams, if I might ask?

Absoltuely. Definitely depends on what you’re listening to. Gotta be able to adjust per podcast.

That’s a decent solution, but unfortunately doesn’t have handy podcast app features like silence trimming, voice boosting, etc. Great suggestion though!

Pretty cool, especially considering how it’s been shown that WiFi can be used to pretty accurately determine the position and number of people in a room with AI.

This is super helpful, thanks so much

Any tips on jumping in? Recommended services, etc

Any tips on where you source the torrents from? Also looking into Usenet as well

That works. F-Droid is an alternative to the Play store. You can also download the .apk directly instead if you prefer. Just scroll down to the versions and find the most recent.

Not sure about them, but I use browser on desktop and the progressive web app on mobile generally. Sometimes browser on mobile

Supposedly he’s gonna add kbin support also. I hope he changes the name to be more broad, like Sync for Fediverse. Or Synciverse or something.

I’ll have to wait for kbin support to try that one it seems. Looks decent though

Nah, it’s pretty clear when you open Threads and it says literally “Log in with Instagram”. It’s like logging into YouTube with your Google account and then being mad that deleting your “YouTube account” deletes your Google account. You can always disable your YouTube or Threads profile.

Yep, this is just pure sensationalism, problems with Meta/Threads aside.

Lemmy is God.