Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser
Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser
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Brave is a marching band of red flags. It claims privacy while injecting ads, affiliate codes and crypto into the browser. It's kind of sad to see someone like Brendan Eich who should know better turn to the dark side and pretend this is all fine. It isn't.
Best advice I could give for anyone who wants privacy is use Firefox or a branch of it. Firefox is out of the box the most privacy conscious mainstream browser and add-ons make it more so. If you want absolute privacy you could even use a derivative like Tor Browser.
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someone like Brendan Eich who should know better turn to the dark side
LOL, he inflicted Javascript upon the world. He never knew better and was always on the dark side.
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JavaScript is a victim of its own popularity. It was originally meant to be scripting glue to do little actions in the browser while the real work was done in Java (LiveConnect) apps. But Java got jettisoned, JavaScript became more important and became the thing we love and hate today.
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JavaScript is a victim of its own popularity.
No, that's not the issue. If Javascript were well-designed we wouldn't hate it, but it wasn't.
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Most of the examples listed there are issues that don't affect real applications. It's just garbage code, so the output ends up being garbage too. Programmers don't write code like that, unless they are doing it as a joke. A few of those examples can be real issues sometimes, but they are not that big of a deal to an experienced JavaScript programmer.
It's an imperfect language like any other.
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but they are not that big of a deal to an experienced JavaScript programmer.
A well-designed language wouldn't require "experience" for stupid gotchas like these to not be that big of a deal in the first place.
After all, I'm sure a sufficiently "experienced programmer" could adapt to anything up to and including fucking Malbolge if necessary, but that doesn't mean it's equal to a language that's actually good.
Differences in quality between languages are real, and Javascript is closer to the bad end of that spectrum.
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Louis Rossmann also recommended Brave in one of his videos. Quite sad.
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I like a fair amount of his videos but he has a big ole bag of bad takes
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Love everything he criticizes (corporate greed, drm, wasteful planned obsolescence, unrepairable disposable device design) are all incentivized and rewarded under Capitalism ... but since he's a small business owner he still supports the idea of Capitalism.
He gets so close.
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Exactly my thoughts. He's like right on the edge but to me it seems he has some cognitive dissonance re capitalism
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Informative and unfortunate
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Brodie Robertson also uses Brave. Quite sad x2.
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Brave is more secure than Firefox out of the box.
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