I wonder when Brave’s local blockchain update will drop
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Google doesn’t need to scrape the web they just need chrome to send them the das you are already scrapping for them. Stop using Chrome.
I found out this doesn’t apply to celeron laptop from 2016 with 4 GB ram so all good.
Local AI js API checks pc specs before downloading - cos it wouldn’t work anyway 😁
Brave is better than Chrome. Definitely recommend.
It’s always funny seeing the recent Reddit migrants here. Brave did a massive astroturfing ad campaign on Reddit for a while, and it was hugely successful. After things reached a critical mass, the echo chamber took over and Reddit users naturally began pushing Brave’s marketing fluff to the top. Brave is wildly popular over on Reddit as a result.
But they never targeted Lemmy, and Lemmings were pretty quick to jump on the “Brave is run by a very problematic person, and has a problematic past” side of things. Lemmy also has a very vocal FOSS enthusiast crowd, because the idea of FOSS meshes very well with why people would land on Lemmy. So Lemmings tend to prefer Firefox forks instead.
But you can always tell when someone has recently migrated here from Reddit. Because they’ll post a comment praising Brave, expecting to get upvoted like they would on Reddit. And instead, they get buried in downvotes and “my specific fork of Firefox is better” comments.
And sure enough, OP’s account is less than a day old, so they’re most likely a recent Reddit migrant.
OP, to address your point, Brave is still a Chromium browser, and has all of the trappings that entails. It is also run by a dude with a problematic past, and the company as a whole has a problematic past too. You should consider switching to a Firefox fork instead, with uBlock Origins or AdNauseum (which is a uBO fork) as ad blockers. I personally suggest the WaterFox fork, though you’ll likely want to disable some of the more strict privacy protections (like wiping all of your data every time you close the app) because it can make daily use a bit of a chore otherwise. There is always a matter of give-and-take between convenience and privacy, and WaterFox tends to skew more towards privacy.
I think you’re mixing up Waterfox with Librewolf. Librewolf by default deletes all your data after closing it, Waterfox doesn’t.
It’s actually for this reason that I use both for different purposes. I sign into accounts with Waterfox (using account containers and browser profiles so each account’s data is self-contained and not shared between each other) and use a sandboxed installation of Librewolf with a few extensions like NoScript installed and letterboxing enabled for anything I don’t sign into (i.e. news articles, web searches, etc.) so that the 50-odd domains running scripts on my local news station’s website get way less of a fingerprint off me to use to target ads at me or sell my data to data brokers or the gestapo.
Hah, you’re 100% correct. I use WaterFox as my daily driver, and remembered all of the frustrations with persistent data deletion from initially trying Librewolf. I swear WaterFox came with those features by default, but I probably transposed the frustration from when I initially tried out Librewolf instead.
Firefox and Firefox forks > *
We all need to stop using Chromium forks
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I’d seriously reconsider considering their history so far.
https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
If it must be Chromium, Vivaldi is better. Though I’d recommend Waterfox (Firefox fork).
I remember chrome, its the new Internet Explorer i believe.
Omg but it’s ok because we called it 🌼⭐ federated learning ✨💮 so we only steal the data that is profitable to us while legally no PII leaves your device 🚀 weeeee!
Well your first mistake was using Chrome in 2026
same i abandoned as soon as they said they were going to slow the browser/computer down for people using private mode. oh and it has no adblock that is good as ublock origin.
Second Mistake was using Windows in 2026
id say this is the first mistake really
A while back, I was actually okay with MS being semi forcible about Windows Update.
Most people overestimate their antivirus, and don’t realize that frequent updates are generally the most important way of keeping their system safe. And, to avoid turning computers into zombies for botnets, to keep the whole internet safe. Windows is the world’s most popular OS - it’s good for the world to keep systems secure.
And then MS had the gall to betray that responsibility of only shipping critical security patches by forceful methods. They started forcing people to Windows 11, pushing Edge back in as their browser, pushing popups and Start menu changes, and so on. For a thousand reasons, Windows Update has more notoriety in common with malware than the malware it’s meant to protect you from.
Yup, exactly. The concept of forced updates is fine, as long as it is handled properly. The issue is that Microsoft has not handled it properly.
I have to admit, I started laughing when it tried to update me to Win 11, I finally threw up my hands and said “Fuck it, why not!” said yes, and it did not work. 😄 It still kept asking though. Hilarious.
I installed Bazzite this year.
Your first mistake was voluntarily using any Google software, especially chrome.
But what if it was open source???
Chromium is. Chrome is not
I googled a definition of a word today. it took me two minutes to get chrome to not use the “AI mode” search when searching via the address bar
tomorrow I’m switching to Firefox at work. after I spend an hour trying to figure out how to remove the copilot overlay from Excel, anyways
You can ask the Duck Duck Go AI Assistant instead 🤣
When it comes to disabling AI in Google searches, you have two choices:
- Lawful Option: Add
-aito the end of your search, ie, “define asinine -ai” - Chaotic Option Add profanity to your search, ie, “what the fuck does asinine mean”
What was the GDP for fucking Columbia in 1997?
($127.4 billion for those interested)
this wasn’t the AI preview/response thing at the top of a regular Google search result. they brought me into a new “AI mode” chatbot window completely separate from google search
I’m still not sure how I got it to fuck off. it kept doing it for simple searches, but would do a regular search if the search keys had enough words
- Lawful Option: Add
OperaGX has been nice to me so far
opera is not nice to you, its an awful company and does not respect your privacy or data at all.
look at a firefox fork like waterfox if you want a browser that will be nice to you
Software updates have gotten so fucked up in general these days.
It’s so rare that changelogs are published to actually educate the end user about what an update will do. Most of the time it’s just “Bug fixes and feature updates” with no further detail. What bugs? What features? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then you update (or, more likely, you left auto-update on) because they guilt you into thinking that you’ll immediately fall victim to a zero-day vulnerability if you don’t. And suddenly everything just gets slightly worse and worse.
It should be more accepted to follow the mentality of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” with software, precluding the need to install new updates unless something stops working or there is a vulnerability to patch. On my phone at least, I have auto updates turned off and will generally let audience consensus determine if it’s something I want. But it’s still a coin toss if I decide to take an update, because no one bothers to tell you what they really do anymore.
Fun fact: when releasing apps on Google Play, you are basically forced to give a proper summary about what the update contains and Google threatens your developer account if you fail to do so. If you want some sour chuckles, check the “what’s new” of YouTube or Google Play itself.
And then they give you a very short character limit in which to do so, thus leading to a lot of summarized patch notes due to those limits.
Come to the world of open source.
Where changelogs are detailed and informative, and software updates actually make the software better.
And if changelogs aren’t detailes enough, you read the commits
It’s so rare that changelogs are published to actually educate the end user about what an update will do.
This reminds me - One of the games I play did an update called “Nothing update” and it just simply said “Nothing was updated, no need to investigate”.
Sounds a lot like “Herobrine removed”
That update sounds very sus…
Leopards ate my face moment. Stop using that trash.
Leopards are those entities that openly boast about eating your face. It’s not the case with Google. Your average non-IT-savy person knows almost nothing about their shenanigans
It’s been very open among us Lemmers for years now. Posting here it could be all but assumed they knew about this bad behavior for a long time.
This is not a “leopards ate my face” situation.
“I never thought AI would eat my face”
-Person who installed the browser from the AI Face Eater company
It is, on my opinion. Lemmers should know Google is not a good faith actor.
For some people, sure - actively choosing chrome despite knowing the kind of company Google has become is silly
But then I think about the people who have chrome pre-installed on their phones, with no ability to remove it. Despite using a different browser, they still got burned by this.
I do believe lemmings have a higher tech literacy than the average internet user, but I also believe tech literacy shouldn’t be a requirement to hide from ai.
The people who boast about using chrome and insist other browsers are trash absolutely had their faces eaten… But the people who did their best to avoid chrome did not
For some people, sure - actively choosing chrome despite knowing the kind of company Google has become is silly
Those were the people I was referring to. I was referring to the people who do know better.
But it’s true what you’re saying as well, about devices where you have no choice. Not very easy to do anything about that.
Seriously. Chrome is the single worst mainstream browser on the market today, bar none.
Absolutely any choice would be better than Google Chrome.
Edge… Opera… Internet explorer…
Its all chromium anyway.
I’m gonna go on a limb here and say that Internet Explorer isn’t chromium based.
Yeah true; but Internet explorer isn’t supported ever since Edge (back when it was an actual browser and not just a skin of chromium) came out
I actually thought Edge was kinda cool when it first came out with its own engine. Another player in the game, I thought.
Now? How dull.
EdgeHTML was a genuine improvement over the old IE engine, but even MS couldn’t compete against Google in the end.
Internet Explorer is still used by the Windows OS quite frequently. So depending on your definition of “supported” it still kind of is. Plus the internet hasn’t changed all that much, so most websites will work with any web browser regardless of age.
Fun fact, if you’re a .NET developer, you can actually still use IE. The browser control on winforms is just IE. Those old .NET framework versions will never die so neither will IE.
Internet explorer isn’t, but Edge is chromium based.
people used chrome?
Everyone who still uses chrome after this insane breach of trust (if there was any before) should seriously think about why he enjoys corporate boot on his neck that much.
Most people don’t know, aren’t paying attention, and don’t understand. It’s our thankless task to try to educate and convince our less savvy friends.
It’s our thankless task to try to educate and convince our less savvy friends.
Sadly, in my experience, it’s useless. They usually think you’re the weird one. Especially nowadays in the “AI” era. Whenever I talk negatively about it I get weird looks. People love their corpo slop.
We are the weird ones. But the only thing that changes people mind is in-group pressure. If people trust you, they’ll at least humor you. Plant those seeds.
I keep thinking back to to the tweens when crypto miners would infect computers. IMO same strategy. Why buy the compute (Data Centers) when you can crowdsource it?
