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by justsee 7y ago
As I understand it even the 'paper' teabags contain plastic which is why they shouldn't ever be disposed with any organics waste (and possibly raise similar health concerns due to being immersed in boiling water before being
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by justsee 7y ago
Having been a close reader of The Guardian over many years I'd very much agree with your observations. It still has the shimmer of a left-leaning paper on soft social issues, but on many matters of significance it's clearly being
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by justsee 7y ago
Browsers can and should be agents of the user: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent Google's Chrome has distorted that historical idea so they are agents of the ad network and advertiser, working against the u
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by justsee 7y ago
There is always something curious about an opinion so strongly held and communicated that is at the same time so wilfully ignorant. Brave is clearly a privacy-focused browser: it takes very little time for a technically-minded, veteran HNer
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The distinction between repair and re-making: on refurbishing a patented product(shelstonip.com)
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by justsee 7y ago
Excellent response. You're right - I was responding to an imagined position in an unrelated / irrelevant political context, whereas a more careful reading makes it clear what we're discussing here is the moderating effects of
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by justsee 7y ago
Deep state is very much a thing: https://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/ Dismissing it as a thing and calling it plain ole bureaucracy is quite a naive worldview.
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by justsee 7y ago
All because they optimise for short-term design over long-term function, because there's no decent negative feedback loop into consumer decision making at point-of-purchase for many minor defects (and even major ones such as the Apple
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by justsee 7y ago
Preferences -> Social Media Blocking. If you don't see them I could only guess that maybe you have an old version of the browser installed?
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by justsee 7y ago
That was my setup, and much prefer integrated blocking and the additional polish and features. The yubikey integration coming is particularly interesting: https://brave.com/ios-yubikey-support/ . Future monetization: th
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by justsee 7y ago
Ah sorry those options are on the desktop build. Perhaps there are tickets in the github repo to add this to mobile builds?
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by justsee 7y ago
Actually I followed that whole episode as it unfolded and your comments across this thread are all sorts of wrong. Tom Scott ended up being happy with Brave resolving an early product misstep. You should really be across an issue - and its
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by justsee 7y ago
Yes, trackers are blocked by default, and the Google / Twitter / Facebook login options are in the Brave preferences section.
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by justsee 7y ago
Switched from Firefox to Brave in the last year across devices and not looking back (though I do miss containers!). Blocking ads and trackers by default is pretty much essential in 2019. The myth about ad replacement doesn't seem to wa
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by justsee 7y ago
One of the most inclusive, satisfying social activities - which serves as a cure for so many of a technologist's ills - is one most likely to be dismissed out-of-hand. This activity is: * physical and active - you're required to &
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by justsee 7y ago
The situation is much worse than you outline, from a scientific perspective, and even well-meaning doctors aren't an antidote due to systemic distortions. Ben Goldacre, a UK physician and medical researcher, captures it really well in
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by justsee 7y ago
The people most impacted aren't the entitled well-off first world citizens you allude to, but second and third world citizens and youth. The rational choices of market participants do not remove the ability of sellers to sell, but they
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by justsee 7y ago
gorhill makes a moral argument on the other side of yours [1]: That said, it's important to note that using a blocker is NOT theft. Don't fall for this creepy idea. The ultimate logical consequence of blocking = theft is the crim
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by justsee 7y ago
Chrome restricting extension APIs won't affect Brave's ad-blocking. See: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1133878509342846977
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by justsee 7y ago
Huh? What you're saying is simply wrong. First party ads aren't blocked. Publisher ads aren't swapped. If a user opts-in to Brave's model for ads, they are system-level notifications which lead to full-page ads that aren
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by justsee 7y ago
Shilling? No, consistently seeing the same attempts at poisoning the well with regard to Brave's model become rather irritating. I have no connection with Brave.
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by justsee 7y ago
This has been a consistent dishonest mischaracterisation: that Brave literally swaps a publisher's own ads with their own. That functionality is on the roadmap, but Brave has stated that will only occur with publisher consent . Keep
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by justsee 7y ago
I don't think anyone would argue that a content payment architecture that demands a user endlessly make a stack of decisions isn't doomed to fail. But that's a criticism of a specific implementation of microtransactions. In a
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by justsee 7y ago
You're a competitor heavily invested in the current ad-tech ecosystem casting shade on a competitive model by relying on a bunch of mischaracterisations and false assertions. Knowing this and re-reading your contributions (and particul
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by justsee 7y ago
Because Brave does not replace publisher ads with their own.
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by justsee 7y ago
Your scenario doesn't reflect how Brave's model works at all - it just reflects various misconceptions on your part. Brave does not replace publisher ads with their own. Brave does not block first party ads. Google's search a
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by justsee 7y ago
Microtransactions are about user behaviour and tech. Your exploratory attempts with a browser plugin do not sound comparable to what Brave is attempting. Attempting to dismiss Brave by begging the question isn't convincing: "Brave
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by justsee 7y ago
The mischaraterization, which you seem determined to double-down on, was an attempt to paint Brave as a fraudulent company trying to build a 'patreon for thieves'. Any honest onlooker doing the barest of research would understand
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by justsee 7y ago
Brave's an open-source, privacy-respecting browser with a digital wallet baked in. The microtransaction opportunities that are opened up by having such a low-friction economic layer native to the browser is what's particularly int
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by justsee 7y ago
BAT activity for user rewards etc happens off-chain at the moment, but I think the plan is to move it all on-chain when Ethereum can support that level of activity. A user model is built on-device to allow for opt-in targeted ads, but that

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