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by bsclifton 7y ago
For those interested, we (I am a Brave employee) have the deviations (things we disable or patch out) from Chromium called out here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
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by bsclifton 7y ago
All the data about you (history, etc) is on your computer (and not shared in any way) :)
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by bsclifton 7y ago
I don't think it says a price, but it was previously used by a "nuclear polka" band :) https://brave.com/the-road-to-brave-one-dot-zero/
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by bsclifton 7y ago
Showing ads is something users have to opt-in to see (using Brave Rewards). Users can turn off ad-blocking globally if they missed the ads, but blocking them (ads/trackers) is one of the main draws to downloading Brave, IMO
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by bsclifton 7y ago
You're right - all browsers on iOS (as far as I know, including Chrome) are wrappers around Safari. I didn't mean to imply Brave on iOS was based on Gecko, simply that it was originally forked from Firefox on iOS We do have upstre
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by bsclifton 7y ago
The team has been capturing deviations from Chromium on a wiki page here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... The page goes over (high level) how the project is built and links to
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by bsclifton 7y ago
(Brave employee here) The Rewards feature of Brave is what allows users to pay creators and also opt-into ads. This feature is completely optional though. It's off by default and users never get bothered about it Brave is actually a pr
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by bsclifton 7y ago
(Brave employee here) Curious: what are some of the shortfalls you see in Chromium? Before I joined Brave, the desktop browser was originally using Gecko (from Firefox). Ultimately, there were some problems and the decision was made to move
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Script Blocking Exceptions Update(brave.com)
13 points by bsclifton 8y ago|0 comments
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by bsclifton 8y ago
This is a great point- I reviewed with team and created https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3301 to track this (folks are welcome to give it thumbs up). The fix for this should be something we can d
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by bsclifton 8y ago
Employee here- I haven’t seen an official comment here yet The JSON file that was linked to does have partner domains which (when the header is present) the website will provide a specific integration. When those specific partner sites are
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by bsclifton 8y ago
Microservices are a great tool for the toolbox. Not everybody needs them. It has definitely seemed like a fad over the past few years to push everybody to use them (even projects or orgs that don't need them). I suspect that is what ha
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Why I'm not interested in self-driving cars(blog.clifton.io)
1 points by bsclifton 9y ago|0 comments
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by bsclifton 9y ago
Setting aside subjective reasons... how about the barrier for entry being lower for web development? Also, more people arguably have web development skills Java isn't new or unpopular- if people wanted to use it, they would
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by bsclifton 9y ago
How did this get upvoted? Author misses the point entirely of Electron. If people wanted to write Java, they already would be doing that. The selling point for Electron is: folks are comfortable with JavaScript/HTML/CSS and can be
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by bsclifton 9y ago
HyperCard was amazing. My first online experience was with AOL in 1993 and they had a HyperCard section where you could upload/download your stacks. I racked up huge bills hanging out in that area (pay by the minute)
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by bsclifton 9y ago
One of my best friends made a toolkit available on AOL's HyperCard section called "Color Paint Tools" which let you put color into your stacks (making that hack you mentioned easier). If I remember correctly, HyperCard could
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by bsclifton 9y ago
That's a great point- while consumers may not have been affected by this heavily, developers had to update their apps. Lots of companies just stopped supporting their apps rather than invest time updating
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by bsclifton 9y ago
I don't think there is a single smoking gun- many things contributed to the downfall of Windows Phone. Microsoft had a decent market share with the old Windows CE based smart phones. - Microsoft didn't care about mobile, thinking
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by bsclifton 9y ago
Content IS king... but the author has a different definition apparently. He should have named it "Vendor lock-in isn't king". People have choice now. The content is what matters, not the platform.
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by bsclifton 9y ago
How widely adopted is QUIC outside of Google? If Google (including DoubleClick, etc) sites are the only ones using QUIC, it's a little unusual IMO to enable an experimental protocol by default For example: this technology looks cool. H
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by bsclifton 9y ago
While QUIC is an open protocol and the source is available, I personally believe the issues here are: - Google has majority share of browsers with Chrome - Chrome has QUIC enabled by default (opt out via chrome://flags) - Google h
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by bsclifton 10y ago
Props to the Edge team :) Only complaint I have about Edge is how Windows pushes it down your throat. You get while setting a different browser and even AFTER setting a default browser More details: https://github.com/brave&
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by bsclifton 10y ago
One of the criteria for being a high performer needs to be: being a decent human being and treating other people with the respect they deserve
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by bsclifton 10y ago
I just recently (last week) switched over to DDG; it's been solid- I've gotten really great results versus last time I tried them out (5 or 6 months ago?) I love their vision, the services they provide, and what they've done
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by bsclifton 10y ago
Disclaimer: I am also a Brave Software employee :) Jonathan Sampson, author of the article, has been using similar methods to test popular extensions with Brave to ensure we have support for them (and if not, to identify what's missing
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by bsclifton 10y ago
I've never had that experience with them in over 10 years of using Dell products. I had a first gen XPS13 (I miss that thing) and 2 years down the road, I had a motherboard issue. The support was actually great and knocked out the rep
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by bsclifton 10y ago
Love safety razors. I spent more than the author at "The Art of Shaving" store... about $100 for the handle itself and maybe $50 for a good badger brush. But after that purchase, the razors are crazy cheap. The quality of the shav
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Why I left a job I love(blog.clifton.io)
3 points by bsclifton 10y ago|0 comments
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by bsclifton 10y ago
I hate to be obvious, but you get what you pay for :P I dumped gmail for Exchange and now use Office 365. Reasonable price, great support.

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