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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

My reply was purely to get to the accurate information versus your reply which says that they are "collecting data from their search engine not the browser" as it's important that people reading know what's actually going on.

I'm not here to argue about whether they should or should not do that and I'm not going to (and when I used Brave I consciously went into the menu to opt into this to improve their search engine so we could have a competitor).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Google rewrites links in Google search (not that you use it but maybe you do sometimes). So, if you want the links you click in Google search to not go through a Google referral URL and instead go to the link advertised in the search result, then Privacy Badger is useful for this purpose.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project-

If you opt in, you’ll contribute some anonymous data about searches and web page visits made within the Brave Browser (including pages arrived at via some, but not all, other search engines). This data helps build the Brave Search independent index, and ensure we show results relevant to your search queries. By “data” we mean search queries, search result clicks, the URLs of pages visited in the browser, time spent on those pages, and some metadata about the pages themselves.

My emphasis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I just discovered this on a relative's computer. Any trick to removing the VPN service?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Which phone do you use?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

🤔😔🤷🤷🤦

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tested it in Firefox InPrivate, Edge, Brave, and Chrome and all are identical for me. I think they just fucked up YouTube. 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I remember this system. I had to apply to do it after my account was old enough, then they'd give me a little bit to rate at first. Then IIRC they gave me more to rate after it was clear I wasn't abusing it.

They had a guideline page I had to read before I started to rate comments and I don't think those attributes were optional. So, comments got a primary attribute associated with their rating.

I wasn't able to rate comments that I saw as I browsed but rather it was a collective rating system where volunteers were served comments (with expandable context) to curb the tendency to downvote just because you disagree with something.

At the height of Slashdot the discussions on there were incredibly educational and thoughtful and that rating system worked very well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I think they're saying the opposite: millennials as "boomers" so-to-speak.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

I think they are starting to write this way, because there's huge numbers of Americans who do not even know what the Holocaust is and that it happened let alone the basic facts about it. It's shocking when you read the recent polls which demonstrate the levels of ignorance we are dealing with around this.

Edit:

I'm surprised that people don't know about the ignorance of the Holocaust. Here is some reading for our collective edification.

It might seem unbelievable to see how ignorant people are of the Holocaust, but what you and I find common sense and basic facts of history which we all know are unfortunately not generally known to be basic facts of history and we do not all know these facts. Less and less of us know these facts.

It's alarming and it's good that publishers are writing to state basic facts for an ignorant readership. Because of this we shouldn't see this style of informative writing as a fault but rather as a boon to ignorant readership.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I think Marlinspike's weird crypto turn is what got him pushed out so we now have the wonderful Meredith the first tech company leader I've ever looked up to.

Hopefully they remove that crypto thing from it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most people meet partners through mutual friends and at work.

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