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by pythux 5y ago
I have no idea if this is remotely close to reality but, what if, their culture of breaking things and bad uptime is what allowed them to move fast and build a great product in the first place?
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Putin Puts Russian Nuclear Forces on High Alert(sputniknews.com)
32 points by pythux 5y ago|1 comments
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Germany commits €100B to defense spending(dw.com)
176 points by pythux 5y ago|310 comments
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by pythux 5y ago
> The built-in AdBlocker in Brave is based on AdBlock Plus, so it is not as powerful as uBlock Origin. This is not accurate. Brave's adblocker has compatibility with most uBlock Origin rules as well as ABP syntax (uBO is also based
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by pythux 5y ago
> Recently our development team had a small break in our feature delivery schedule. Technical leadership decided that this time would be best spent splitting our monolithic architecture into microservices. Maybe redesigning the architect
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by pythux 5y ago
“ There is no meaningful switching cost to using a new search engine.” Unfortunately, defaults matter and Google is spending billions of dollars yearly to make sure they are the default search engine wherever they can. Most people don’t swi
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by pythux 5y ago
I used it a lot and it usually works great. Of course there are corner cases but if you don’t need to handle them in most cases I don’t think it means you should never use the library in the first place.
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by pythux 5y ago
I think this is missing one of the most important points. Even if Manifest v3 was able to provide everything content blockers need today, it would still be bad. Why? Because blocking ads and tracking is a never ending race and content blo
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by pythux 5y ago
https://twitter.com/brave/status/1466510541128548362?s=20
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by pythux 5y ago
You can check exactly which fraction of the results were fetched from Brave's index vs. third-parties using the "independence score" found in the setting drawers (opening can be done with the cog icon at the top right of any
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by pythux 5y ago
This is not correct. Brave Search owns its own (growing) index and relies on third-parties like Bing for some fraction of the requests. Which is not the same thing as relying fully on Bing or third-parties for results like so many meta-sear
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by pythux 5y ago
Unless I missed it, I assume the article is talking about the Chrome implementation of IndexedDB. As far as I know the performance issue with their implementation vs. say, Firefox’ one is a known issue[1]. Other comments mention using batch
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by pythux 5y ago
Brave browser does not block first-party ads by default so it should not be contradictory. If a user decides to enable aggressive mode of Shield then fist-party ads are blocked as well.
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by pythux 5y ago
I found this to be pretty comprehensive (not sure if this is the final release note, though): https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/a5ac2f45ff84a688a094...
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by pythux 5y ago
Hey, Brave Search is currently hosted in the US (I am assuming you are on another country) and latencies will be bigger in other places. We will scale in the future, which should improve speed. Regarding number of pages of results, please s
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by pythux 5y ago
Hey, we are planning on implementing something very similar to what you describe. You can read more about our proposal here: https://brave.com/goggles In a nutshell, community-curated lists of rules to deeply change the way
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by pythux 5y ago
Hey, have you tried bangs on Brave Search? Lots of them should already work out of the box, if not, please let us know!
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by pythux 5y ago
We use our own independent index.
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by pythux 5y ago
"Cliqz tailcat" is an independent index and we rely on third-parties like Bing for a small portion of requests where we are not confident enough (although we would be able to serve 99% of the requests, users expect the best qualit
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by pythux 5y ago
We are actually planning to implement just that! You can read more about our proposal here: https://brave.com/goggles/
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by pythux 5y ago
Thanks! We'll have a look at this one. This is definitely broken.
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by pythux 5y ago
Not to be nitpicking, but we actually show up to 20 results (not counting infobox, videos, news, places, instance answer, etc.) in a single page, which would correspond to 2 pages of other search engines (they usually show up to 10 results
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by pythux 5y ago
Fixed now! Not a hug of death (yet).
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by pythux 6y ago
There is an official version hosted on Brave's website (and linked from the announcement): https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/goggles.pdf
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by pythux 6y ago
Blocking by hostnames is a big part of adblocking, but if you want to really block all ads and also not break the Web, you need an in-browser tech to do things like element hiding, scriptlet injections, etc. Which cannot be done via host fi
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by pythux 6y ago
> [...] but they also do their own modifications to the rankings, which is sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Could you maybe share a reference for this?
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by pythux 6y ago
Ecosia explicitly specifies "Results from Microsoft" on every results page, so they seem pretty transparent there. I don't think DuckDuckGo and Qwant are as upfront about that.
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by pythux 6y ago
The main barrier to enter the search market is not tech, it's money: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-22/google-competition-is-just-... And of course there are lots of other issues. For example the Web is very h
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by pythux 6y ago
I am far from expert in this but I am not sure I would be comfortable automatically configuring all my apps to run through Firejail using firecfg (if only because in case of breakage it would be harder to understand where it is coming from)
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by pythux 6y ago
I am far from being an expert but I think that: 1. Is solved by most profiles which will only give access to files required by the given app so it would not get access to all content of the home folder. And even better (although not default

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