sorrybookbroke @ sorrybookbroke @sh.itjust.works

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I'm not, not directly. I'm using the mullvad browser. However, even if I was using firefox that is part of a not-for-profit organization that he is no-longer part of where the money and success do not benefit him. This is different than using a browser whose success gives him money, which he then uses to support causes I am vehemently against.

If using brave did not support him I would accept an argument around my usage of it. It does however.

Apologies for the fact that you're getting downvoted, that is a reasonable question to ask

I use startpage which is a google proxy. So, it does what duckduckgo does with bing but with google instead. Searx is also a great option. Neither have their own crawler though

As for the brave engine there's nothing inherently wrong with it. In fact, I'd argue it's much safer than google, bing, or the proxies of each. While proxying you can still be fingerprinted. With brave only brave could do that and I trust them not to more than most.

You should be cautious though, as brave has had some privacy issues before injecting affiliate links which would track you when going to ecommerce sites.

Of course, the brave CEO is a piece of shit though. Full on covid conspiracy lab made Fauci plandemic ivermectin type stuff, believes that gay marriage should be illegal while donating to anti-gay orgs, and otherwise uses his position to further far right ideas. He also tries to fund weird micro nation projects with the goal of creating anarcho-capitalist heavens in the ocean. Think bioshock, but crypto bro. All around weird guy

All this said, I'd still argue from a privacy perspective brave is a perfectly reasonable option. The company has one privacy controversy but that's better than the big two. I'll stick to startpage though for political reasons, until I find something with good enough results that's fully independent and moral. Currently looking at mojeek myself

Sorry for the delayed responce, but yeah I understand if it's not working for you it might not be a great option sadly.

If that's happening, I'd try a few different instances. Try inv.tux.pizza which works well for me. I do sometimes have to click the address bar and then enter though instead of just reloading, which is also strange

Invidious has still been working for me too, though I'll be clear I'm also using firefox

You can watch the podcast, or longer form political videos, that lukesmith does where he goes onbut he also peppers it into his videos every so often. I haven't watched in a while, so maybe he's calmed down a bit, but he seems to do this more frequently around major events

Yeah, nah, I don't think that's true my dude. I've heard his opinions on the gay agenda, 5g, trans people, and 'cultural marxism' being taught in our schools. I think it's just as serious as the place he gets alot of his views, the image boards we all know. It's the same irony you see on 4chan

That's neat, so kinda like what peppermintOS was doing but taken a bit further? I like the concept

Oh shit that's why they do be how they are. Always wondered why they look like that

Yeah I don't know man, as a dev this sounds like you are finding things that cannot be reproduced and the dev can only get more information from your machine. It's like if you were calling up a mechanic on the phone. He can't take the wheel. Would you be ok with giving them access to your PC remotely to try and find the bug?

Nah man, we're not trying to weasle you into finding the bug yourself. We would very much prefer to interact with end users as little as possible.

Exact opposite on either side of dumb. Ones got a fucking thinkpad the others about to own newbz in fortnite

My dude, that was 8 years ago. I am 23. There are people younger than you it's nothing to worry about. In high school I was not interested in pc companies, let alone privacy. This has since changed.

I was 15 when the news broke. I liked playing video games, pretending to be cool, and dnd.

You are a very strange person to believe me thanking this person for sharing their knowlage and changing my opinion accordingly is trolling. I'd think you were kidding if I hadn't come back to a new downvote on my two comments in this thread

I don't remember the superfish scandal, had never heard of it actually. Thank you telling me about it though, I was a child when this was a thing. Looks like it came out in 2015 and settled in 2017. That's not recent. Thank you again, I'm glad to know this, and won't think of Lenovo when suggesting laptops again.

I can understand the aggression you're giving me seeing as how you're being downvoted for something which may be a legitimate concern. I'm sorry for that, and would like to confirm I've not been participating. (Edit: sorry, you're not bigfig. This apology was to them) My thanks was honest. Though, I cannot see the link to it being a "chinease spyware" situation. Would you be able to provide links for that one? I see superfish is and was headquartered in california. What makes it chinease?

Edit: @Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world would you be able to advise? (BigFig)

For the lazy, here's some excerpts from a PCWORLD article:

According to the FTC, the software allowed VisualDiscovery to see all of a consumer’s sensitive personal information transmitted over the Internet, including log-in information, Social Security numbers, and more

In 2015, Lenovo CTO Peter Hortensius called the decision to use Superfish a “significant mistake.”

(Big whoopsy daisy, we sent all your personal information to an add company, we really ballsed this one up)

For 20 years, Lenovo will be required to put in place a “comprehensive software security program for most consumer software preloaded on its laptop,” subject to external audits, the FTC said. If Lenovo does put adware onto its laptops, it must “get consumers’ affirmative consent,” it added.

Wow, maybe that one shouldn't be limited to 20 years. Maybe that one shouldn't be limited to lenovo, huh

According to McSweeny, VisualDiscovery and its Superfish software “would alter the very Internet experience for which most consumers buy a computer,” she wrote.

I assume for the better right guys? right?

According to McSweeny, the Superfish software slowed Internet browsing, specifically downstream traffic by 25 percent and uploads by as much as 125 percent. In addition to simply slowing browser speeds, VisualDiscovery also used an insecure method to replace digital certificates, exposing users to risk and preventing their browsers from warning them that the website they were visiting could have been spoofed. And on every e-commerce site, VisualDiscovery’s software would display ads.

That ones fun

Here's the original article for the curious: https://www.pcworld.com/article/407332/lenovos-superfish-bloatware-scandal-reveals-a-sneaky-tactic-we-thought-microsoft-had-started.html

Can you give me some of the articles, studies, etc. which have convinced you of these laptops being chinease spyware?