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They are not mentioning the most important reason for me. I think Firefox is better by default simply because I don't want to help contribute to Google's chromi
by user764743 5y ago
They are not mentioning the most important reason for me. I think Firefox is better by default simply because I don't want to help contribute to Google's chromium/blink hegemony over the web.
- toastal 5y agoNot disagreeing, but the question is better for ‘you’, not better for society or the internet. Lotta people (sadly) don’t know or care about rendering and JavaScript engines. That said, the weirdest thing about Brave is that the BAT stuff could likely have been implemented as a browser extension. The changes to Chromium the Brave team must now maintain choosing to fork a browser are because Google makes changes in the code base for the good of their business, not consumers.
- imgabe 5y agoYou are a part of society. If something is bad for society, it will, in the long run, be bad for you.
- gbrown 5y agoNot to mention, if living your ideals is an important part of your own utility function, then yeah - it can be best for you even if it comes with other compromises.
- mavhc 5y agoIdeals are just long term benefits
- Majestic121 5y agoIf you sacrifice yourself to have an orphan out of an Ideal of selflessness or protection of the weak, the idea of benefits doesn't make sense since you'll never reap those benefits, being dead and all. If you look at the individual level, with a purely rational 'Homo economicus' rational actor, ideals don't make a lot of sense.
- mavhc 5y agoPeople are genetically programmed to look after children for the long term benefit of the species. It's so programmed in we think baby lions are cute.
- pharmakom 5y agoTrue but will your choice change the course of society? Probably not.
- revax 5y agoMy vote won't change the result of an election but I still vote.
- pharmakom 5y agoWe don’t vote because it’s rational, it’s part of a shared ritual.
- ipaddr 5y agoBy making his choice he is changing society. Lets say he has no global reach his choice may change opinions of the people around hom. It may even change minds on here.
- imgabe 5y agoYour choice definitely won’t change the course if you choose to contribute to the current course. “Hey, this boat is sinking. Will this one bucket of water I throw out stop it from sinking? No? Guess I’ll just do nothing then. Maybe I’ll pour some more water in. That’s the way things are going you know.“
- true_religion 5y agoYou may not change the entirety of your civilization, but you can at least be a part of a community that's living up to your ideals.
- r00fus 5y agoSure, if you regress once, it affects you. If you continue the regression analysis you'll quickly see that the ecosystem suffers if you don't participate and advocate for your preferred choice. It's like buying on Amazon/Walmart while you see local stores shutting down when prices are more are less equivalent. Buy local if you want those stores sticking around. Same dynamic in the browser market.
- wayneftw 5y agoBrave isn't implementing Google's "Manifest v3". Microsoft Edge replaced all Google services and telemetry with their own. Turns out, Chrome is mostly open source and Google doesn't have absolute power over anyone forking it. Having a commonly shared implementation is not a problem. Quite the opposite. It solves a lot of problems. The Linux kernel is in every Linux distro and nobody is calling that a "hegemony". SQLite is used by phones everywhere and that's not a problem.