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Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 13 Oct 2023 (aussie.zone)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/melbourne@aussie.zone
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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

DO NOT USE BRAVE I'm not even kidding that thing is absolute bad news. Like win11 levels of fuckery and tracking

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    :( Thankfully I mostly forget to. Someone on the other place said that it doesn’t work anymore anyway. Not sure if that’s with adblockers or if the inbuilt stuff is getting detected.

    There are Safari extensions but those would probably get detected.

    I hate this. I’d accept a reasonable amount of ads but they’ve been dialed up for pester power, ads enlarged for misclicks, and when that hasn’t been lucrative enough it’s now strongarm tactics.

    The internet is going to shit and avoiding/mitigating that is increasingly requiring tech skills I struggle to keep up with

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