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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well reading this had the opposite effect than intended. Now i just hate the author

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because mocking someone based on opinion has always convinced them to change said opinion👍🏻

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If someone is clearly just trying to be a trolling contrarian then there is no point in trying to change that person’s mind

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So im trolling now because i have a different opinion? Explain that to me please. because based on the replies and upvote/downvote ratio on my comment, more people seem to agree than disagree with me.

By that same logic you use im gonna say you are trolling as you seem to defend an "article" that should be objective but is littered with personal opinion's and facts wich are non relevant to the "product" that the article is about

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because you obviously didn’t read the article. You claim the opinions are irrelevant which shows me that you took no time to actually read it. You are a troll because you are commenting obviously contrarian opinions that no reasonable could hold. It also appears more people agree with me than you by ratio as a higher percentage of the votes on the image I shared are positive than on the ridiculous noise that you spew with your comment. Go back to your Fox News and allow people who actually take time to read the article to discuss it

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did infact read the article and the irrelevant opinion i'm referring to are things likethe fact that the ceo donated against same sex marriage wich while i don't agree with that has nothing to do with the browser at hand.

Also saying it's not reasonable to hold such an opinion is just another opinion to debate over, just not in this threat.

The thing with the up/downvotes: i say i stand corrected. I didn't look at your ratio. I apologize.

Assuming i am watching fox news is:

  1. Wrong. (I don't even live in the us) &
  2. Unprofessional as it seems to be used as an insult in this case. (Excuse me if i am mistake)

Also It seems like you are trying to passively (or actively with that one) insult me on multiple occasions in this discussion.

I refuse to partake in a discussion where the other person tries to reinforce their point with insult's.

Please only reply if you can stay "formal" (or as formal as one is to strangers on the internet)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

-Defends homophobes -Tries to ensure formality when that angers people.

Donations are relevant as that’s where the money may go that you give him by using the browser.

Living in the US or not, not sure how that’s relevant. It’s accessible in other countries so where you live isn’t relevant.

You act as though where your money goes is irrelevant to using a product and then scoff when others (rightfully) point out that that’s ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

this is your brain on civility nonsense brainworms

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, half of it is just "I don't like this person, so no one should use anything they have anything to do with".

The points about the browser itself are clearly just afterthoughts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, regardless of whether it sounds like afterthoughts, it kind of sounds like the ulterior motive for Brave is entirely counter to its purported intent. Why ignore it just because of something unrelated? Sounds like the exact same issue people complain about the author.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The purpose is to make a for-profit browser that respects privacy. They've tried a number of different approaches, and they'll probably try more.

I especially like the idea of replacing ads with non-tracking ads with better clickthrough rate (i.e. higher profit), and share the profit with the sites. Ad recommendations could be made from local data that never gets sent to a server. That's privacy respecting and profitable, but unfortunately they didn't get enough deals made with content creators to be effective.

And what a CEO chooses to do with their money is none of my business, what is my business is the quality of the product that company makes, as well as the quality of the work environment that product is made in. I don't like the direction Brave has gone, so I don't use it. And now that I know iOS Safari has ad blocking extensions, I'll no longer be recommending Brave to anyone (I recommend Firefox everywhere except iOS, and I recommend Safari with ad block there).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't respect privacy by violating it. Just because you're ok with the amount of violation doesn't make it ok.

I'm fine with blocking things on someone else's site. I'm not ok with injecting things on someone else's site.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? If the logic and metadata is completely stored in your machine, there's no privacy violation. The ads themselves don't need any PII unless you opt in to some kind of profit sharing system (e.g. you get paid to see ads), and that can simply be handled by the browser itself (i.e. a cryptographic signature that can only be verified client side).

As for not liking injecting stuff into a browser, what about browser extensions show you if another site has a better deal on something? Or accessibility tools that change the styling of the site? Or password managers that inject auto fill buttons? Or addons like RES that add features like previously viewed posts or times you've upvoted a user?

Injecting ads is the same idea, you're removing features you dislike and adding features you do. The unethical part is profiting from sites, which is why those profits should be shared with those sites. I think there's a good case to be made that sites, browsers, and users can all make more with this method and without violating user privacy (the advertiser doesn't need to know anything about you specifically, it just needs to know that the browser can place ads effectively). All data can stay on your local machine and never sent to the browser vendor, website owners, or advertisers.

If Brave got that to work, I'd consider it. I'd prefer it to be an addon to my browser instead. Here's how I'd prefer it to work:

  1. I install an open source, auditable extension that tracks my browsing history locally to serve relevant ads
  2. Sites sign up for the program and provide a tracking key that only tracks that website (unique per site, not part session/user)
  3. Once I hit some amount of ad views on a given site in a given day, ads go away; my browser is 100% in control of that
  4. Profits go to an open, auditable service that distributes a portion to sites, the addon vendor, and users who opt in (with anymore crypto wallets); if users opt out, those profits are donated to a charity instead (again, publicly auditable)

This way, the user:s privacy isn't violated, sites make a profit, the addon maintainer gets paid (ideally a nonprofit org), and users can get some pocket change as well. Everything would be auditable, so nobody can pull a fast one without getting caught.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You let me know when you find a system that analyzes your data locally and chooses an ad to show without letting anyone know anything. Even just delivering the ad is violating a level of privacy because they know it targets you at the very least. But beyond that, targeted ads require statistics to build to know how to target. You need data to build a model. You can't build that without sharing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not ignoring those things, there's a reason why I use firefox. I'm just criticizing the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You were agreeing with someone that said it led them to the opposite conclusion of the point the author wanted to make. That would require you to ignore those points or at the very least admit privacy isn't important.

When you said "yup" to a claim, it means you agree with the claim. You didn't simply only say you disliked the author's writing style and felt their focus wasn't properly targeted on the correct points.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Touché, I can see how this leads to misunderstanding.