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by justfortechnews 5y ago
Another pro tip: try Brave Search instead (search.brave.com). Still being refined, and it will take a while to be fully-competitive with Google, but the text search results are strong and, unlike DDG, it's an independent search index t
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by justfortechnews 5y ago
There's more info about this on the FAQ page: https://brave.com/privacy/browser/#web-discovery-project
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by justfortechnews 5y ago
I struggle with learning new domains or skills where I don't know what to focus on and start. Example: I've always been fascinated by 'space' and have been determined to invest more time into this hobby by learning more.
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Ask HN: What jobs in the aerospace industry will be in-demand in 5-10 years?
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by justfortechnews 5y ago
There's a similar company https://goodgigs.app/ that does this as well, but more built-out (and seemingly more focused on non-technical roles). Not sure your plans for this page, but could be an interesting conversatio
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by justfortechnews 6y ago
Not sure, I don't use Firefox. I'd assume they don't, given that a lot of the privacy ethics in Brave carried over from Mozilla.
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by justfortechnews 6y ago
Seems to me that you're a small minority, and that most Brave users feel that the company IS aligned with them. The cryptocurrency was a key aspect for early user adoption, and the referral stuff is something that I only ever see menti
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by justfortechnews 6y ago
You seem fairly biased, and have included those links and accusations without any counter or responses from Brave. #2, for example, is just false. Brave doesn't block ads and then inject their own; they block 3rd-party ads, and have an
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by justfortechnews 6y ago
There's a good overview of Brave's search engine focus from their team (the former Cliqz team) found in https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_e... Paper on the search engine: h
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by justfortechnews 6y ago
Agreed - feel like I rarely see any YubiKeys outside of my coworkers' laptops.
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by justfortechnews 6y ago
Use Brave instead of Chrome. There's plenty of other options to use instead of Chrome or FF.
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by justfortechnews 6y ago
Brave recently released Together, which uses Jitsi. Wish we could see a bigger push towards staying off Zoom and Meet. Seems like Jitsi, Together and others can provide solid alternates to Zoom - just a matter of getting users to care enoug
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by justfortechnews 6y ago
Do you still work for Mozilla? I see you worked on Send, and am surprised that you'd comment on here in such fashion about the decision-making to not charge for Send.
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by justfortechnews 6y ago
Some wise advice here. I relate to the thought on cyclical user growth. Some execs refuse to hear that Q3 is regularly going to be a dead space no matter how aggressive the company gets, for example. It's a challenging work environment