FIash Mob #5678

And who knows what secrets they may be trading for favors as well?

I dunno.

I’m kind of enjoying watching Firefox users have to eat a little crow, since they troll the shit out of me every time I talk about Brave.

snort

That’s commitment.

Removed by mod

This is going to be very helpful when I’m feeling nostalgic.

Christ almighty, that was dramatic.

Not being able to use your cell phone for the duration of the school day is fascism.

Fascinating.

Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.

The corporate social media algorithms do two things: Convince users that everything they believe is correct, no matter how crazy it is, and also keep them as pissed off as possible. We were never sophisticated or intelligent enough to discern truth from fallacies, and that’s much harder to do now that fake information has become so sophisticated.

It will be interesting to see how the EU AI Act works out, because that will apply to external companies that have users in the EU, and therefore may force some of the bad actors to self-regulate. That said, I have zero faith that people themselves will decide to make better choices.

Reminds me of how vociferously the Right raged against Obama when his DOJ released its report on domestic terrorism and rightly attributed to right-wing interests. Obama, as the good corporate lap dog that he was, apologized for saying the correct, factual things, which is weird, because that report’s one of the few good things Obama ever did.

If I’m understanding you correctly, Brave Browser does that.

I’m about 2/3 of the way through backing up my ‘Liked’ songs to MP3 files, at which point I’m ending my sub.

It’s a bummer because I actually really like Spotify’s algorithm and it suggests great music for my tastes, but, I can have that for free without feeding their stupid insatiable greed.

LOL

US agencies will take their bribes and do jack shit. As with everything else, Europe will lead on the regulatory front.

They still sold user data without being upfront about it until caught,

And then they did better, as a business should. It’s all in their FAQ.

I’m not sure why there has to be a circle jerk of trolls any time someone mentions Brave, but here we are.

That’s fine. Do what you like.

I think that, if you’re going to pretend to know what you’re talking about, you should know what you’re talking about.

I think it’s a good thing that a person as to willingly opt-in to data collection.

It’s really that simple.

False.

They sold data from Brave search, which you don’t have to use. (and I don’t.)

Also, the crypto thing is also opt-in. You don’t have to use it either.

It works better than Firefox, especially if your aim is blocking ads.

Brave’s native adblock works better than anything else I’ve tried.

Give Brave a look, folks.

I switched to Linux this week. I highly recommend it.

Modern problems require modern solutions.

the real winner will likely be Apple and Macs

I’m sure they will find a way to enshittify in a equally intrusive manner.

Very.

The major social media sites were programmed to feed people content that convinces them that their opinions are fully valid while also keeping them perpetually angry, all to keep their eyeballs glued to ads.

When content synthesized by AI gets more sophisticated, we won’t be able to tell the difference.