Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: I'm curious about DFS's experiment with DE's Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:40:03 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:40:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1e4a211725c727bf98243888c49bfdfe"; logging-data="570174"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fBB093NHpUs3c9bQQ8HPNZL1nWL2qfxJ4RNu+c52ibw==" User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.4-9 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AWFkQ717bSbr0V9m0pqCgp1OGeM= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 04:40 this Friday (GMT): > On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:10:11 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote: > >> rbowman wrote at 20:40 this Thursday (GMT): >>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:40:09 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote: >>> >>>> 2 steps forward, but the ads still kill it for me. I'm sick of AI >>>> marketing everywhere. >>> >>> I use Brave which has its own search engine and half-assed AI summary. >>> I've noticed that many searches come back with ads. Bad example but >>> 'cat food' comes back with 'Shopping', Amazon hits, clickbait sites >>> 'The Best Cat Food of 2024' and so forth unless you narrow it with 'cat >>> food wiki' >>> that at least gets some information on what you feed an obligate >>> carnivore. >> >> >> Didn't brave have some big controversy? > > Not that I recall. It was a little rough in the beginning but is now > another chromium based browser with excellent ad blocking and privacy. > > Any controversy involved Brendan Eich. He was a co-founder, CTO, and CEO > of Mozilla before being forced out after donating to California > Proposition 8 which opposed same sex marriage. > > He also created JavaScript which some may see as a strike against him. Understandable, JS is a disaster. -- user is generated from /dev/urandom