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  • The subjectiveness of it being a superior product aside.

    Brave is chromium under the hood and therefore contributes to the rendering engine homogeneity that leaves Google in control of web standards.

    Iirc they are keeping some support for manifest v2 , for now. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out for them both financially and from a technical upkeep point of view.

    I’d guess it doesn’t last long, but haven’t looked at it hard enough to have an informed opinion on it.


  • That’s also a logical fallacy.

    You are conflating lack of effective choice with active support.

    In an effectively two party race, where both arguably are supporting a position (through action if not through ideology) there is no option where you aren’t effectively contributing to said position.

    Vote either way or not at all , you are contributing to the overall success of one party or the other.

    “Our genocide guy is better” is really the only option when there is no other practical choice.

    Even voting independent just supports whoever happens to be winning from the two main parties.

    What are you proposing is the practical option for people who don’t want to be “in support of parties involved in committing genocide”?

    To be clear i have no good answer to this either, just wondering if you do.




  • Based on what you’ve written it seems you’re assuming:

    • Users will get any protections from this.
    • That giving advertisers what they need is considered a win by everyone.
    • Advertisers aren’t just going to do exactly what they did with the “Do not track” option.
    • Attribution is the only thing they are using the collected data for.
    • This will somehow disable their ability to collect fingerprinting data.

    I’m not generally one for absolutes but i would put a significant portion of my current and future earnings on the fact that even if there was 100% adoption of this new privacy preserving by everyone in the world, advertisers would still be pulling some shit.

    They would be performing elaborate privacy ignoring shenanigans because privacy gets them nothing and data is potential profit.

    AdTech companies have a rich history of doing absolutely everything they can to profit from anything they can, it is naive to think they will so anything different in the future.








  • The overview had no mention of a lack of support for “not transitioning” it’s certainly possible I’m missing it or it’s in the full report (which I’ll read when I get a few minutes).

    One mention of the need for corresponding levels of support for de-transitioning and some mentions of increased support for other issues alongside the gender based ones.

    It sounds like OP had a specific section/sections in mind, if this is indeed the report they were referencing I’d appreciate some indication to which part they were referencing specifically.

    “The overview didn’t mention it, but its somewhere in this 232 page report” isn’t the most useful when trying to understand where someone is coming from.



  • I mean, yes? That’s a good summation.

    The part where you get to call something “open source” by OSI standards (which I’m pretty sure is the accepted standard set) but only if you adhere to those standards.

    Don’t want to adhere, no problem, but nobody who does accept that standard will agree with you if you try and assign that label to something that doesn’t adhere, because that’s how commonly accepted standards work, socially.

    Want to make an “open source 2 : electric boogaloo” licence , still no problem.

    Want to try and get the existing open source standards changed, still good, difficult, but doable.

    Relevant to this discussion, trying to convince people that someone claiming something doesn’t adhere to the current, socially accepted open source standards, when anybody can go look those standards up and check, is the longest of shots.

    To address the bible example, plenty of variations exist, with smaller or larger deviations from each other, and they each have their own set of believers, some are even compatible with each other.

    Much like the “true” 1 open source licences and the other, “closely related, but not quite legit” 2 variations.

    1 As defined by the existing, community accepted standards set forth by the OSI

    2 Any other set of standards that isn’t compatible with 1

    edit: clarified that last sentence, it was borderline unparseable


  • “It’s not libre / free as in freedom so it’s wrong”.

    I think it’s more “It’s not libre / free as in freedom so it’s not open source, don’t pretend it is”.

    The “wrong” part would be derived from claiming its something that it isn’t to gain some advantage. I’m this case community contributions.

    There’s not a handwaving distinction between open source and not, there are pretty clear guidelines.