Linus_Torvalds @ Linus_Torvalds @lemmy.world

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God, this is what I love about Lemmy: Someome posts a chart and immediately the question for raw data arises. And the order: First .ods, the free spreasheet format, then .csv with the mindset of "Fine, I'll import the raw csv myself", and as anlast resort the hated .xlsx proprietary format. Never change, and use .od_

I just love what has become of this thread:

• Think it's a nice post
• Look for Google/Kagi, but they're missing
• People ask for sources, realize OP has chart from VERY dodgy conspiracy website
• People start accusing Kagi Support of lying to their face, Screenshota of convo attached
• Other users don't think its a lie, rather a misunderstanding
• Insults start
• ?

While I feel like that in this case it is a non-problem, I could see while someone would like the ability to de-localize search results. Also agree on the rude aspect, thats just unworthy of such a civil discussion.

This is hilarious, thanks for the giggle :))

While it can be somewhat cynical to play out environmental vs social issues, I agree with the scepticism here.

What do you mean with 'classification'? Sentimwnt analysis?

Unrelated to the entire discussion on cars: This is important! What you just did is so so important. I WANT to believe that EVs are great, and they probably are, but the study seems somewhat lackluster. An someone needa to point it out, regardless of their own opinion.

FIngerprinting is not super easy. E.g. you might have a 'unique' fingerprint with FF but if it changes every time, than I would consider it actually a privacy feature. Did you have the same addons installed on BRave and FF while testing (as Addons play a part in Fingerprinting)? And finally: A lot of fingerprinting techniques can be blocked before they even start (no JS, ...). I feel like your opinion is rather one-sided.

As to why FF> Brave: Basically the Chromium argument. Diverse engines are better for the health of the web.

Damn, it really is a monoculture! I knew about this problem for years, but this is the first time, I had someone call it out as 'monoculture'. This is amazing, I'm stealing it!

I respect the push to use a non-chromium browser, but personally I rely too much on browser tab groups to use anything Firefox based.

Out of interest, are your needs not covered by Simple Tab Groups or Tree Style Tab? Both are monitored by Mozilla as "Recommended Extensions".

To anyone wondering about the whole "homophobe thing", here is a (hopefully neutral? If you have different sources please share them as well!) wiki link to the drama.

Also exposure to the country. Just driving through it (or sitting in an all-exclusive resort for that matter) is not what I consider travelling/exploring.

For further explanation of any point, please hit me up :)

• It is Chromium based
• It has used dubious methods in the past (replacing links with affiliate links, the whole ad/crypto thing, ...)
• Brave's business model relies on ads (I think)
• [This is a weak point, but at least in the privacy community, Brave isn't super popular. It feels more geared towards the "hyped crypto early adopters". ^[1] It might be "fine" for someone switching from Chrome (which is always a good thing) but going all the way would be a modded Firefox.]

TL;DR For most provacy concious Brave users, Brave is a step in their journey towards more privacy, and not the final destination.

[1] The "dumb AF tech youtubers" you mentioned in another post are typically the Brave hype crowd. This is not meant to discredit Brave; it's just that a share of their users are this way.

While I find a discussion about password managers great, I found the article to be underwhelming.

Same here. The devs are super responsive to the community and actually care about privacy. The heated discussion on whether to include a suicide warning with certain searches is a banger read.