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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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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 68 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

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

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

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 27 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.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 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

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

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 55 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

[–] NormalC@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Besides appropriating dogwhistles. This argument is liberal chud.

The main power of firefox is that its a non-chromium and libre browser that sees active maintnence by a corporate entity. It's the default browser in most GNU/Busybox + Linux systems for a good reason (tradition, powerful configuration). It's politically relevant and vital to a Free operating system.

Too bad that will go over all their heads as they argue about which billion dollar company makes them the most "features"

[–] raven@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If Firefox goes under or gets to a low enough % of users on the Internet, companies are going to stop supporting it (kind of already are) which would be literally handing the Internet to Google to make all the rules, decide which technologies to deprecate, which to introduce (web attestation for example). Good luck getting a new browser to be supported anywhere after that.

But they refuse to engage with that, they go on the defensive. "You will pay for disturbing my quiet enjoyment of treats frothingfash"

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Brave was started by a Mozilla contributor who wouldn't sign the code of conduct iirc

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago

He served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer before he was appointed chief executive officer, but resigned shortly after his appointment due to pressure over his firm opposition to same-sex marriage. He subsequently became the CEO of Brave Software.

Ah okay I remember now

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So brave.

kelly

Chuds sure like lion imagery, don't they?

[–] buh@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

the lion reminds of dalstrong, a brand of mediocre, overpriced kitchen knives marketed to gamers

[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how the fuck do you market a kitchen knife to a gamer, is the knife gonna heat up some tendies

[–] buh@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Chefs, suit up and prepare to roll out.

DALSTRONG AND ACTIVISION HAVE PARTNERED TO BRING THE ACTION TO THE KITCHEN WITH THE ONLY OFFICIALLY LICENSED CALL OF DUTY COLLECTIBLE CULINARY TOOLS. DON’T LET ANYONE GET THE UPPER HAND IN THE KITCHEN. CULINARY OPERATORS ARE INBOUND, HOT TO YOUR POSITION. BRACE FOR ADVANCED CULINARY OPERATIONS. GEAR UP WITH NEW EQUIPMENT TO ADVANCE YOUR COOKING SKILLS.

you are clear to engage. get access to our newest products and once in a lifetime deals

This shit would be too silly for dystopian fiction in the 90s.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

the LED strips heat up the food while you cut it

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

marketed to gamers

Checks out. heated-gamer-moment

[–] NormalC@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Opera GX making bank off of chuds and I'm too powerless to stop it.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 37 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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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 35 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.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 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.

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 28 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.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Amazing comment. order-of-lenin

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 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?

[–] aport@programming.dev 44 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.

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 29 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.

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 17 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

[–] RION@hexbear.net 13 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

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably Librewolf or Tor Browser

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'll second LibreWolf. And Mull, on Android.

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Best browser I've ever used on Android was Naked Browser. Made by some random dude on /g/ and he was pretty damn funny sometimes. Worked perfectly on a 4 button android setup, extremely barebones but had most everything I wanted.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 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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[–] NormalC@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you want a chromium based browser, then choose ungoogled-chromium

Anything else is not worth it/proprietary

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

right now i am using firefox with the common privacy extensions people were talking about in this thread https://hexbear.net/post/96791?scrollToComments=false

specifically privacy badger, clearurls, ublock origin, decentraleyes, user agent switcher, and facebook container

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[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 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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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 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

[–] RunningVerse@hexbear.net 14 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.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 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

[–] RunningVerse@hexbear.net 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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[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

After reading that article if you still use that browser then you kinda are just a homophobe.

There's loads of techy reasons listed it's "sub-optimal" so like your use must be because you ideologically support the brand/creator 🤷‍♀️

This just feels like one of those times crypto bigots get to smuggly justify their reasoning behind a market choice lens and dogwhistle their satisfaction with the "win" against the *insert slur here" without openly saying it and libs will eat it up.

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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

they're advertising on NPR

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago
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