Several useless slop paragraphs in that article - seems to have been written by LLM.

Human summary: Brave is a Chromium-based browser that is recommended by some for privacy. It’s created by homophobe and Republican donor Brendan Eich, who was asked by several Mozilla employees to resign and led to half of Mozilla’s board to step down. After OKCupid started pointing out his homophobia to Mozilla browsers users, he finally quit.

After that he created Brave with millions of dollars from amongst others Founders Fund’s FF Angel, Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital, and Digital Currency Group.

In 2016 the “Brave Ad Replacement” was announced which would replace ads on pages with ones injected by Brave, paying in crypto.

Brave collected donations in their crypto on behalf of people like Tom Scott without asking them, and when Tom found out and told Brave to stop, Brave said “refunds are impossible”.

In 2020 Brave Browser silently injected referral links into URLs of crypto wallets containing Brave’s affiliate code.

By default they display sponsored images as the background for the home and new tab pages.

In 2021 Brave Browser exposed the .onion domains people visited as part of the DNS traffic so their ISPs could track users.

In 2023 Brave announced that they’d be selling their search data to AI companies, and prevented sites from opting out of this even if they asked not to be scraped by Brave.

In 2024 Brave deprecated their option for Strict fingerprinting protection.

Brave also paid for advertisement whenever users searched for “Firefox” in the Play Store, displaying “Forget the Fox”, which Brave’s VP (who promoted NFTs and FTX with AI) denied - meaning he was lying or didn’t find out before denying it.

It’s sometimes an answer, e.g. !LeopardsAteMyFace@lemmy.world

A psychopath being injured while trying to harm others, deserves to be shamed. That might not be the case with Seamus here, but it oftentimes is.

• Nina Simone - “Strange fruit” Invidious (which I prefer to the Billie Holiday versions)

Honorable mentions:

• The killers - “Goodnight, travel well” Invidious
• Maiya Sykes, Postmodern jukebox - “Boulevard of broken dreams” Invidious
• The rolling stones - “Paint it, black” Invidious

I don’t think “absolutely nothing” is true. Epstein and Maxwell went to jail.

“nowhere near enough” would be true.

Looks like the videos are now gone.

Tries to become a permanent resident of a country whose omnicidally greedy citizenry re-elected Trump. Shocked when fascists treat him the way fascists treat people. Asks Irish government to raise his case with, I shit you not, Donald Trump.

Lemmy.ca moving from Cloudflare to Deflect.ca.

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Bill Hicks (video):

By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. […]

There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers, OK, kill yourself.

Seriously, you are the ruiner of all things good. […]

No this is not a joke. You’re “There’s going to be a joke coming.” There’s no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourself. It’s the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself […]

I know all the marketing people are going, “He’s doing a joke” There’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend – I don’t care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. […]

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too: “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart.”

Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking, evil scumbags! […]

Quotes from Jesus according to the gospels:

“If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” Matthew 5:39

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,” Luke 6:27

Please downvote click-bait titles.

So renewable energy is not better? Can someone please supply a non-clickbait title?

I couldn’t find a link to it from DDG’s homepage or blog, but a search gave https://duckduckgo.com/vote which redirects to the above.

To get there:

1. Firefox,
2. application menu ≡ (or from menu: Tools),
3. Extensions and themes,
4. to the right of uBlock Origin, click the …,
5. Preferences,
6. Filter lists (at the top),
7. scroll down to Annoyances,
8. under EasyList - Annoyances
9. you can select EasyList - AI Suggestions

Yip, allowing that domain to set cookies correctly showed “NO AI Thanks for voting — You’d rather skip AI. With DuckDuckGo, you can, because it’s optional.” after voting.

That’s next-level stupid. Do the people at DDG know that cookies can be deleted, or blocked? Was this site made using AI?

I clicked “NO AI”, and the result page showed “YES AI Thanks for voting — You’re into AI. With DuckDuckGo, you can use it privately.”

Is it because I have cookies off by default, and haven’t whitelisted this site for cookies?

Is it because I have NoScript? I had to allow voteyesornoai.com temporarily in order to see anything other than an orange page.

Isn’t it better to put “q=%s” in Advanced, POST; instead of GETting it by having “?q=%s” in the URL?

Doing the same thing slower (because you’re explaining what you’re doing) sometimes prevents the problem from happening.

Things that aren’t working for a user sometimes work for me because I wait a bit longer between steps, e.g. waiting for the services/background-programs to finish loading instead of immediately clicking something on the desktop/panel 5 times the moment it shows up.

Abolish ICE entirely?

42% of U.S. adults, while 50% do not, and 9% are unsure.
50% of 18-34 year olds.
49% of postgraduates.
48% of females, 35% of males.
69% of Democrats. 
48-50% of non-whites, 38% of whites.

Civiqs January 8, 2026 poll. I’m not sure what N is - there’s an number at the top of the page but that may span 8 years.

Dr Pepper is made by Keurig. [1]

In 2015 Coca-Cola was Keurig’s biggest single shareholder, with a 17.4% stake. [2]

In 2024 Dr Pepper surpassed Pepsi to become the 2nd biggest soda by volume market share in the USA:

19.2% Coke (Coca-Cola)
 8.3% Dr Pepper (Keurig)
 8.3% Pepsi (PepsiCo)
 8.1% Sprite (Coca-Cola)
 7.8% Diet Coke (Coca-Cola)

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