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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Brave Talk does work in all major browsers. Initiating a call requires Brave, but participation in a call does not.
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
No problem here; I'm happy you went straight to the source. You can also find this code at code.brave.com in the future (to save you some clicks). Note that the source to which you linked does not demonstrate Brave "injecting&quot
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Words have semantic range, and this is no less true for "replace" than for any other word. In 2016 there were reports that Brave would replace ads [meaning in-situ, in-page substitution] with its own ads. This never happened. Yet
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Replaces implies in-situ substitution (i.e. ads on pages, etc.); in fact this is often what is explicitly stated when the claim "Brave replaces ads" is made (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28619682 for a
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Mozilla has been in hot-water in the past for silently installing extensions and more. But to your last comment (i.e. users can change their search engine whenever they want), consider the 'tyranny of the default'. Most users will
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
> "they get caught on very hostile things again and again" This is not the case. The most common claims are "Brave accepted donations for others", "Brave replaces ads across the Web", "Brave injected&#x
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
There have definitely been some really nice features shipped in other browsers, or by other vendors, in the past. Timing is often a curious element. I wonder if Hello might have found more success if it were introduced in 2020-2021, given t
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
A nonprofit where the people at the top have multi-million dollar salaries (see https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html ) Yes, Brave is for profit, but not at the cost of user data and/or trust. Brave doesn't collect
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
No pivoting; just an incremental realization of a better Web. We never replaced ads. Brave blocks trackers, and their associated third-party ads for privacy and security reasons—we've done this from the start. But when you block third-
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
There was no fighting—Brave's Ads were (and are) off by default. The New Tab Page's Sponsored Images (a later addition) is on by default, but only appears on every 4th new tab, and can be turned off with 2 clicks. This type of adv
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Bullish on macOS? Windows isn't going away anytime soon. My apologies if I am misunderstanding what was meant by "bullish" in this context. It does strike me as odd (given your tone here) that you would be requiring users to
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
I was going to download your browser (from https://browser.kagi.com/ ), but I realized 1) There is no Windows option, and 2) It requires me to submit a great deal of information via a Google Form before I can download. Hones
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
We are indeed seeing these topics from two very different perspectives. I applaud your efforts; it sounds like you're building a nice project for [power users]. Brave is built for all users, however. As such, asking users to opt-in to
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
> By Brave's own confession, there are 70 requests it sends "home" on startup… "Confession" is a curious choice of words. You're correct that Brave issues requests on startup; this is necessary for a secure
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
> Brave is attempting to monetize other peoples intellectual property by stripping it of ads. Brave doesn't make money by blocking third-party ads; that's a privacy and security decision. Brave could default to no-blocking (whi
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Brave's co-founder (and CEO) is also the co-founder of Mozilla. Our other co-founder (now CTO) was also an engineer at Mozilla for many years, and behind many of those contributions (several other Brave staff is directly connected to M
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
CTR is at about 9% right now (industry is about 2%). The difference here is that the user gets to decide whether or not they participate, and to what degree (up to 10 ad notifications per hour presently). Ads are selected via a machine-lear
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Brave blocks harmful third-party ads and trackers. This is a security and privacy matter, as these types of ads are actually small scripts/apps which run in the context of your local machine. As malignant as third-party ads have become
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
You're absolutely right that some people are not interested in ads, at all. And this is why they install content-blockers and more. This doesn't change the fact that many others install things like uBlock Origin for their security
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Can you tell me more about the "better filters" request? Regarding sorting , that's great feedback. I'm curious how you would see this implemented. Would the sort by date arrange results in order of their modified d
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
I do believe I've been quite respectful with you. If at any time I was caustic, abrasive, or offensive, I apologize. It is certainly not my intention.
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Quite obvious, but naming things is funny in the web-development world. We still call any asynchronous retrieval of data "AJAX," even though it rarely, if ever, involves XML :-)
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words and support! Please do let us know if there is ever anything we can do for you.
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
That JSON endpoint for Independence metrics is what feeds the Independence Score on Brave Search. Click on the to view your own score (provided you have performed a sufficient number of searches). Current global score is 87% at the time of
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
People rarely venture beyond the first page of results. That being said, we've filed an issue to consider adding additional pages of results too. Thank you for the feedback!
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Correct. Data is collected. We detail that data and the privacy-preserving process by which it is collected at https://www.brave.com/p3a/ . When you consider the type of data collected, it's clear why Brave is stil
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
[This post describes the behavior of Brave Payments in last 2018. It is not an accurate description for how the system works today, in 2021]. No, creators did not have to be savvy enough to make their own ERC-20 wallet. We worked with Uphol
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
I'm defending the model , but not that particular iteration of the UI/UX. People weren't donating their own money at the time either; they were effectively telling Brave who they'd like to support. Brave would then take
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
Fair enough; I can respect that :) Always happy to chat if anybody has any other questions about Brave.
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by jonathansampson 5y ago
That was addressed in my comment (the one you're responding to) with this link: https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/ . Briefly, we added a way for users to support Brave without having to make finan

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