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I like (hate) how in the other version people are claiming that it's not sexist but in this one suddenly people are confused who's supposed to be the one who's wrong.
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Yeah, lol...
Yeah definitely move ladybird over to the right. Dunno about Brave but I’m inclined to mistrust it due to being for profit.
Also Bitcoin isn’t really a privacy thing. Your transactions are broadcast to the whole network by design. You need other privacy tools to protect you from having your transactions tied to your identity.
You just missed their entire point while proving it.
Why the ladybird browser?
Edit: damn I read piracy....
Then why brave?
Brave describes itself as privacy browser (hell no it isn't). That's the point of the meme I guess?
Yeaaah I think also the left guy thinks he is private... But i am never really sure if people serious about brave or not.
Why is brave not a privacy browser? (Not using brave, thus never cared)
Brave Browser Caught Redirecting Users Through Affiliate Links
I've been wary about Brave since this happened
Also the whole crypto scheme that is embedded into the browser.
I thought it was piracy until I read your comment. Also, I'm not sure who's supposed to be correct here
never heard of veilid. interesting.
I also want to try Tor but I'm scared I could be arrested from simply using it.
Sigh. I'm the FUTO guy after all
Depending on your country... In Germany using a Tor entry or exit node can be troublesome. A middlenode is okay.
Also I2P could be interesting for you.
BTW. what is futo?
FUTO is a shady "privacy" organization that funds opensource projects. Aaand the founder is a Nazi
What is it with otherwise unilaterally good open-source software being run or maintained by terrible people?
People like that kind of fill a similar niche of being rejected by society, so they fill the needs of that niche. Some good people happen to also get rejected by society, and then look on as horror as TheProblem™️ makes things are actually kind of great
god dammit not again
That explains why i dont know it...
Theyre a non-profit organization spearheaded by an ex-yahoo employee who invested his money smartly and is using his profits to pay software devs to make source-available (not Foss licensed but source code is able to be read) software
I've heard one of the main goals of tor is to enable people in authoritarian regimes to escape censorship privately. I hope there are ways to connect or download the tor browser without making it obvious that's what you're doing.
Tor can be run via a usd stick. The browser and all.
It just looks as much like normal encrypted traffic as possible.
But yes, a physical search will find it, but at that point you have other problems.
If your home is being physically searched you're probably cooked already. At best you're in a country that wouldn't do so unless they knew for sure they'd find something. At worst you're in a country that doesn't actually care of there's anything to find.
Is anyone using Veilid for anything yet? Last I checked it was more an interesting experiment.
Their project is on 0.5 currently. There are a few cool projects that use it, but there will be a lot more options once it's closer to 1.0.
Two working examples:
Why is brave bad, other than the crypto in the browser and link redirects?
Most of the arguments I have seen against it are ethos based, which imo is valid considering privacy involves a lot of trust in the company itself. Brave has had a bad track record with doing shady things (def the crypto part) but also things like blocking ads and replacing it with their own, and leaking TOR DNS records among other shady practices/mistakes. Plus on top of that it is based on chromium (maintained by Google) which for some might be a pro or a con.
oh cool, the browser i was interested in testing is funded by cloudflare, shopify, and FUTO
Blender is funded by big names with histories, too, what’s your point?
i don't use blender
oh alright fair enough
Monero instead of bitcoin?
Then he would be really private and that would miss the point :D
Ah true…i missed it
Me Too, it took me a lot of other responses to get it.
Bicoin isn't useful for private daily payments given the high volatility and fees and inefficiency. It was the intention but didn't pan out.
Today's main uses cases for Bitcoin:
- Speculative investments
- Money laundering
- Russia, North Korea, and Iran escaping international sanctions
Ethereum is more energy efficient anyways.
If you actually holistically understand how something works and still don't have confidence in it based on those fundamentals, you don't have to spread misinformation about it to have the thing collapse, it should do so on it's own.
The reason bitcoin isn't good for anonymous payments is because it's ledger is transparent and fully auditable, by design. It was never meant to be truly private and never advertised as such by it's developers. The word you hear in the bitcoin space is "pseudonymous" which is the same level of masking you have from a username on a social media site. Privacy has never been it's priority.
Claiming Bitcoin is anonymous is indeed a common mistake, which I didn't make.
Pseudonyms can help provide privacy, the issue is that those pseudonyms are permanently tied to Bitcoin wallets. Making a transaction with an exchange or seller while providing a full identity allow that exchange to trace all transactions and reassociate identities.
You do make good point, Bitcoin's use of permanent pseudonyms is another reason why Bitcoin isn't useful for daily private payments.
Privacy on a ledger requires anonymity, I think you understand that and therefore why I addressed both. The pseudonymity of bitcoin is incidental to the technology, not even that was intended as a privacy aid and even the whitepaper points out this discrepancy. Your representation of bitcoin's original intentions aren't accurate, but are a common misconception that I assume arose from cryptocurrency's "killer app" (Darknet markets).