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As a visitor, if a website I browse decides to block the browser of my choosing, I'd be more inclined to stop using the hostile website than change my browser o
by fishgoesblub 2y ago
As a visitor, if a website I browse decides to block the browser of my choosing, I'd be more inclined to stop using the hostile website than change my browser of choice. that, or faking my UserAgent.
- tapirl 2y agoAre there any other choices? :D
- technofiend 2y agoLobster's barrier to entry is high enough (shades of gmail invitations) that in my humble opinion most people will choose the site over the browser.
- christophilus 2y agoWhat? Why is that?
- technofiend 2y agoLobsters is invitation only: you have to find someone willing to sponsor you and your sponsor's reputation is tied to yours. In fact, the entire tree of sponsors is public. So people aren't just going to sponsor a stranger, and ostensibly people who use the site are well-behaved due to potential reputational impacts to both themselves and their sponsor if they misbehave. In my humble opinion someone who went through all the trouble to get access and maintain it is far more likely to switch browsers to stay on the site. Then again I'm just guessing because I don't have access to lobsters myself! Perhaps it's just projection on my part.
- Gud 2y agoAnd to be clear, “misbehave” also means having a dissenting, unpopular opinion.
- SansGuidon 2y agoDespite being a member of Lobsters for 5 years I've immediately disabled my account as soon as I felt the community becoming so hostile to brave users. I mean, I have no time to invest with a community that makes it so difficult to reach them and discuss any issue. Web is already painful enough.
- AlexeyBelov 2y agoDo you have a different username there? I couldn't find your account.
- SansGuidon 2y agoIt's now inactive-user on lobsters but it does not matter much anymore. I had changed my username few times on Lobsters.
- SSLy 2y agoThey've changed their username. It's visible in the log.
- EasyMark 2y agoI was on there for while, but I wasn’t really impressed by it. I prefer reddit even with all the chaos there.
- silisili 2y agoSame. Brave is my browser of choice, because it's the only one that checks all of my boxes. If a site blocks Brave, I'll just stop visiting said site. Same with pages that tell me to disable my ad blocker to view the content. No, sorry, you burnt that bridge down long ago, I'm not disabling it.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoReally? The reason wouldn't matter, the specifics of the situation wouldn't matter? You just make a rule and then you don't have to think again?
- sumeno 2y agoI think notifying users that their browser is malware is good personally
- WithinReason 2y agoEven if that's a lie?
- sumeno 2y agoWhat do you call a program that collects money for creators and keeps it, secretly modifiers referral links, and injects it's own ads into websites? Any program that did one of these things would rightly be called malware and Brave has done all three.
- WithinReason 2y agoNone of that happened. Look into it if you don't believe me.
- Krutonium 2y agoAll three have happened. Look into it if you don't believe me.
- WithinReason 2y agoI did and all 3 were lies.
- AlexeyBelov 2y agoCan you elaborate?
- WithinReason 2y ago1. Brave doesn't inject ads into websites and never did. 2. https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/ https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/ 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=BrendanEich https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=BrendanEich Please look into it yourself, don't make others do the thinking for you.