If you’re happy with tracking and spying at the browser level, then fine, but I’m interested in how we can put an end to that.

And brave has shown it’s not a solution to that at all, so there’s literally no reason to defend them, or use them.

Goggles is the first part, the owner is the second part

It’s not a strawman, it’s the problem.

It’s a strawman you’re still trying to prop up because the issue is not only the Brave browser itself, but the owners of it.

Even if we took your argument in good faith, it would still be flawed since Brave is based on Chromium, of which Google essentially controls at this point, so you’d still be supporting Google hegemony. In other words, even from that stance you’ve brought up, it would be a bad idea to use Brave vs Firefox, Librewolf, Konqueror, etc.

That’s a really concise and thoughtless way to excuse Google, Microsoft and Apple for monetizing spying on every person on earth for profit.

Nice strawman you got there. I think anyone with eyes can see I didn’t bring them up because most (all?) Lemmy users know Firefox and its forks exist.

And yes, Linux distros have a business model. I’m happy that distros found a business model through offering official support to corporations, it makes it truly free to the rest of us. It also helps that their competition is very expensive. Will that model work for a browser? What do you think?

That’s… Literally how browsers used to work. Netscape was a paid browser. Orion is starting to look into that model as well.

And yes, you just pointed out of possible to raise funds without pulling the shit Brave has, as Linux distros have done… So, congrats on getting the point? A little slow, but you got there.

That’s a long winded way to try to excuse secretly mining crypto, far right misinformation pushing, transgender phobia, and more that Brave does / has done.

I also want to point out an operating system is a huge project to create and maintain, and yet Linux has accomplished this without all the shit Brave has pulled.

PS: technically Brave has used ads as well.

Explain more of this Jitsi, sounds interesting for my business

Forgot that runs on Fairphone.

Yeah, Calyx is the better option for it

You can install /e/ on the Fairphone

I think he hired someone who found an exploit that then allowed a brute force technique at it actually got unlocked . The person hired got a percentage of the money.

With his monkey paw luck, he’d find it just as Bitcoin crashes and loses nearly all value somehow

I don’t, so maybe that’s the reason?

Seems other commentators outside USA are saying similar things.

If true, I wouldn’t trust this app at all, because it just be breaking GDPR somehow

I don’t have it on a phone a with play services.

I’m also in the EU in case that matters