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0 pointsadithyassekhar9mo ago0 comments

I admit that was definitely tongue in cheek. But brave is on the front page. Maybe they're better.

I would like to keep my data from bad actors with illegal ops or malware, but willing to sacrifice some to a legitimate corporation with data protection rules set up for a better personalized experience. I guess chrome with ublock origin lite is all I need.

Is this browser exclusively for the .1% that will not even load a google web page?

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pcthrowaway9mo ago· 1 in thread

I doubt even 0.1% manage to avoid loading a google page or script while browsing the web, but there is a lot of momentum behind the (apparently herculean) effort to reduce the presence of google in one's life to the greatest practical degree.

adithyassekharOP9mo ago

Future generations will look us in disbelief. Google made incredibly good products, search, gmail, maps, youtube, a mobile os platform. I won't fault them one bit.

It's we the people who took a private company's product as public infrastructure, integrated into our lives, replaced any processes we can with a Google one. Entire economies, businesses, governments depend on gmail and google sheets.

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