raltoid

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[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The only people using Facebook these days either don't know what addons/extentions are, or they are forced to use it through work/business.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

The ceo is a bigoted asshole, Brave is chromium, it was initially funded by Peter Thiel and they're literally just trying to make their own adsense network.

The self-proclaimed privacy focused browser is tracking your browsing and want to serve you personalized ads, and I think they want to use that tracking data for AI training as well, meaning other people can potentially access it.

And lets not forget about their crypto currency that you can earn by turning on special ads. Which they seemingly unironically called it "Basic Attent Tokens"..

TL;DR: The company is basically a sham company trying to usher in a dystopia. Where you'll get paid for staring at ads, while having all your data stolen and sold back to you.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a joke post. Which makes it extra funny, and quite sad, how many of the comment seem to think it's serious and are unironically chiming in with complaints.

OPs username is "Peter Poopshit", I wouldn't take anything they post seriously.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

With the TL;DR being: Google/Alphabet wants to more easily block non-chrome browsers ability to use their services, and prevent the use of adblocking.

Which also means that many people using accessability tools will be unable to access them. And they are trying to get Firefox to implement it as well, so they don't take all the blame when shit hits the fan and they start getting multi-billion dollar monopoly fines from the EU.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't forget that creators will release a video that you might want to watch later and then change the information.

You'll see a video you want to check tomorrow but not enough to add it to the "watch later". But when you check your subscriptions the next day it's been 12+ hours and they've changed the title and thumbnail to further game the algorithm.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Update on the vote results, for people who don't want to go there:

  • Pro John Oliver: 61.7k

  • Return to normal: -13.7k.