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I initially replied to someone speculating that Brave was backdoored by noting that their history of surprising users wasn't the best. Then I replied to someone
by notahacker 6y ago
I initially replied to someone speculating that Brave was backdoored by noting that their history of surprising users wasn't the best.
Then I replied to someone else replying to my post with a defence of one of those practises Brave have apologised for. Then I replied to your reply to that post. This is how Hacker News generally works.
I'm reasonably confident that my prior posts in this thread were more on topic than your speculation about my social skills.
- Grimm1 6y agoYou should maybe take as evidence that you are both grey text (what I replied to initially) and that the only subsequent replies you've had are me telling you that you're somewhat off topic as signal that you are in fact somewhat off topic.
- notahacker 6y agoI'd probably take grey text as evidence someone disagrees with me, not that Brave's surreptitious use of affiliate links became off topic in between propogandist replying to me to insist the affiliate data collection wasn't personally identifiable and me responding in turn that it was still a breach of trust they called a 'mistake'. My contributions to this thread thus far appear to have sparked a double digit number of comments continuing the thread about Brave (obviously not all in agreement with me) a larger number of net upvotes and one pointless offtopic digression about my personal life. Which I didn't start. Do you often wander into the ends of conversations to tell the original participants what the subject matter was supposed to be?
- Grimm1 6y agoJeez you doubled down. This is just going to turn into a more personal pissing match because frankly I have don't have good thoughts about you after this set of interactions and we both agree this is unconstructive so going to leave it here. Good luck!