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Gar For Archer said:
Brave’s been talked about already, but I’m going to specifically call out the iOS version (presumably the same applies for Android but I haven’t used it so I can’t confirm) for automatically blocking YouTube ads and allowing videos to continue playing in the background AND in an overlay on top of your screen, both features that Google specifically gimped from the mobile site to scam people into paying for YouTube Red.

Even if you don’t want to use it as your main browser, it’s the most accessible free and easy way to get a non-shitty experience watching YouTube on your phone.
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Wait, there's Brave for Android?
 
Local Fed said:
For over two years now as of November.
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Well thanks for notifying me, I'm gonna check so that I can replace Firefox. I already have Brave on browser but have no fucking clue how the "earning through ads" shit work.
 
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It would be better if they could provide a diff and scripts like GNU Iceweasel used to do for Firefox and then build it automatically with GitHub Actions rather than rely on internet randos to upload binaries.
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In general, building it from source is brainlet easy. Just consult the build instructions in the dedicated git for your specific OS. The precompiled binaries are only there for people who are either lazy or have reached a power beyond brainlet. To be clear though, everything on the Internet that you don't build yourself is "relying on Internet randos" regardless of where it comes from.
 
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WULULULULU said:
Well thanks for notifying me, I'm gonna check so that I can replace Firefox. I already have Brave on browser but have no fucking clue how the "earning through ads" shit work.
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It just works(tm). I never did anything after installing it and I've been sending jersh my earnings ever since it came out, sent my current fortune of $5 an hour ago while taking a shit. The ads come up as regular notifications up on top and can be swiped away, they are not very intrusive while browsing in my opinion.

There's one thing that annoys me though: make sure that Brave is closed in the background when taking longer calls or you might get the "brrrrr" vibration for an ad notification during a call. It bugs the shit out of me. Can't figure out how to turn that specific thing off and it's the only thing that annoys me. Adblock everywhere including youtube is so nice, I've even whitelisted a couple of places just to be nice.

There is some kind of auto-contribute thing "based on your attention to [sites]" that seems to send a pittance to sites you visit based on frequency of visits. I don't know but I turned it off because I ain't sending Jimbo Wales a fucking dime.
 
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MysticLord said:
I gave up on DIY computing in 2017 and now want things to Just Werk.
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lol, coward

I dual-booted Arch and Gentoo and installed all the beta updates. I didn't even read the patchnotes. I even replaced glibc with musl just for the thrill of "ohh, is this gonna run or will it crash?"

Long story short, I bricked my laptop, so the next time I only installed Gentoo. And Musl.
 
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Bender said:
lol, coward

I dual-booted Arch and Gentoo and installed all the beta updates. I didn't even read the patchnotes. I even replaced glibc with musl just for the thrill of "ohh, is this gonna run or will it crash?"

Long story short, I bricked my laptop, so the next time I only installed Gentoo. And Musl.
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Assume for a moment that I work for a living, /g/entleman.
 
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Lost my edit button for some reason in this thread, @Blood Bath & Beyond, so double post time: is there a non-"internet rando compiles ungoogled chromium" edition that automatically updates, or should I just deal with Brave's "It's Mobile Browsing on Desktop!" GUI?
 
MysticLord said:
Lost my edit button for some reason in this thread, @Blood Bath & Beyond, so double post time: is there a non-"internet rando compiles ungoogled chromium" edition that automatically updates, or should I just deal with Brave's "It's Mobile Browsing on Desktop!" GUI?
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No auto-updates unfortunately as doing so would defeat the overall goal of autonomy and security that the project is aiming for. Auto-updates allow “the man” to sneak in whatever bullshit they feel like at any time they want.

Alas, the eternal struggle between the lines of freedom or convenience.
 
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MysticLord said:
Welp, Brave it is. Thank you for your efforts, gentlemen - have a nice sticker.
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Just remember, you can’t complain if Brave inevitably decides to fuck up its UI or otherwise change in a way you do not consent to.
 
HumanHive said:
Just remember, you can’t complain if Brave inevitably decides to fuck up its UI or otherwise change in a way you do not consent to.
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From my experiences with Firefox and Pale Moon there is absolutely nothing you can do if a single company makes a change to it's browser, because the vast majority of people who work in tech will follow the dumbest among them.
 
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From my experiences with Firefox and Pale Moon there is absolutely nothing you can do if a single company makes a change to it's browser, because the vast majority of people who work in tech will follow the dumbest among them.
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There is something you can do. Use a browser that doesn’t force itself on you.
 

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Friendship with privacytools.io ended, privacyguides.org is new best friend.

Privacy Guides

Massive organizations are monitoring your online activities. Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.
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Same people but they had issues with the domain so decided to move to the new one a while back.

Welcome to Privacy Guides | Privacy Guides

Massive organizations are monitoring your online activities. Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.
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We are excited to announce the launch of Privacy Guides and r/PrivacyGuides, and welcome the privacy community to participate in our crowdsourced software recommendations and share tips and tricks for keeping your data safe online. Our goal is to be a central resource for privacy and security-related tips that are usable by anybody, and to carry on the trusted legacy of PrivacyTools.


As we announced on the PrivacyTools blog in July, we made the decision to migrate off our former privacytools.io domain for various reasons, including an inability to contact the current domain holder for over a year and growing issues with the .IO top-level domain. As attempts to regain ownership of the domain have proven fruitless, we found it necessary to make this switch sooner rather than later to ensure people would find out about this transition as soon as possible. This gives us adequate time to transition the domain name, which is currently redirecting to www.privacyguides.org, and it hopefully gives everyone enough time to notice the change, update bookmarks and websites, etc.


We chose the name Privacy Guides because it represents two things for us as an organization: An expansion beyond simple recommendation lists, and a goal of acting as the trusted guides to anyone newly learning about protecting their personal data.
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Privacy and tech have a lot of overlap, especially these days, and unfortunately part of that is these weirdos.


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