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If people could be owed profit just for creating things, I could go around town singing my original music to people passing by and then forcing them to pay for listening to it.

The difference being, those people didn’t ask for your music, but you needed that software, otherwise you wouldn’t use it.

and neither does intellectual property, it’s a myth, a fable, a fabrication that is enforced by powerful corpos in order to forcefully extract undeserved profits from a market of artificial scarcity that they created in the first place.

Lol, so basically confirming my last paragraph then, “doesn’t actually exist” because its digital, what a take.

You are absolutely correct, we should not have law enforcement at all, just ask the people to arrest themselves when committing a crime, i’m sure that’ll go tremendously!

I’ll go back to my construction analogy

I think that’s a bad analogy, isp’s and dns providers have the ability to control mass amounts of traffic, enforcing site blocks at isp and dns level would be the most feasible way to do this. They’re also likely much more capable of moderating the internet than small websites which don’t have time to do so.

Digital piracy is not theft. There is nothing stolen.

Out of curiosity, what are you’re thoughts on the below scenarios:

• attempted robbery
  If you go to a bank and attempt to steal the money, but you were unsuccessful in doing so, there wouldn’t be any loss, but you’d still go to jail and it’s widely accepted as wrong.

• getting a service, e.g going to the barbers and running out of the store before paying
  There wouldn’t be a loss again

People only seem to gloss over theft when it’s digital, not taking it seriously, it might not directly cause a loss for the developers, but if you’re in a situation where you can afford the software but choose piracy to save money, you’re leeching off someone else’s time and resources, and taking away money that could have been paid to them, for your own selfish desires.

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Who else do you expect to enforce site blocks?

I don’t want my local ISP to be making judgments about whether my neighbor is pirating movies

I mean, piracy is a real crime, you might not be a software or game developer but if people were free to pirate without consequence, those jobs would be crippled. You wouldn’t go into a book store and steal a book, why is software viewed any differently?

I don’t know what fantasy land the eff is living in, but as great as freedom of speech is, there has to be SOME level of censorship involved in the modern internet, otherwise it would be hell. It’s simply not feasible to run the internet unmoderated…

Only a very small set of them though, and their functionality would likely be limited. Hopefully non-webkit browsers will come to ios soon, with proper desktop addons, following the eu pressuring them into allowing sideloading.

I mean… it already does support desktop addons so I’m not exactly sure what’s new here. It looks like this just fixes android killing background processes due to battery saving, but you can always just disable battery optimisation for firefox, or put it in “never sleeping apps”, though granted even without doing this i’ve never experienced problems.

Are they ocsp errors? You can disable ocsp hard fail in settings > librewolf settings

Well that’s a bit of an extreme example… and I don’t know who that person specifically is, but generally: yes, i would be fine with using a vase or software made by him. Why shouldn’t I be? However I’d uncomfortable with music or film’s acted by him.

This is why brave exists as a good middle-ground

niagara launcher is great!

Quite the opposite, brave’s defaults are very good. An alternative to brave on the firefox side would be librewolf, which gives firefox great defaults, but the issue with that is that they disabled auto updates, and there’s still a lot of people on the windows side not using a package manager (even though many exist).

bullshit integrated into it.

And again, there’s no “bullshit” if you don’t explicitly opt into the crypto.

Why exactly?

Because with firefox, they’d have to install arkenfox’s userjs, change some defaults like the search engine from being google out of the box & add ublock origin, for it to be an alternative. Which for some people is overly complicated, in which case brave comes in handy where you just install it and don’t need to change any settings. It doesn’t use google for search, sync & google safe browsing are implemented in a privacy respecting way, it has an adblock & some resistance to fingerprinting ootb.

Now librewolf does exist as a firefox based browser with good defaults, but on windows unless you’re using a package manager, it won’t auto update.

crypto snowball scheme attached

which is opt-in.

The article states nothing but misinformation, the first heading is literally about the author’s politics, unrelated to the browser. And the 2nd & 3rd indicate that he’s never installed brave in his life, he’s simply regurgitating other people’s hate.

Damn, 3 days 0 days without anti-brave browser propaganda, so lets break down this article:

brandon eich

Do you use linux? Go look up all the nasty stuff stallman’s said and firmly believes in. I don’t see people boycotting gnu which is a vital part of linux as a result of this, I myself still use it, because you should never mix politics with software. If the software works as it should, why do the author’s politics make a difference? A lot of praised artwork was made by artists who went mad. Similarly, I’ve heard the creator of lemmy has some questionable views, I don’t see people spreading anti-lemmy propaganda.

The same also applies with microsoft, if you use windows. Or apple, with macos. They’re no saint either.

The Ad Experiments

is Opt in… Come on at least try out something before you write a whole article on it.

Some ranting about the opt in crypto

Mentioned above.

adding affiliate codes to some URLs typed into the address bar

Again shows that they never actually tried the browser, they’re just jumping on the hate bandwagon. It never “rewrote” url’s, or “hijacked” anything, it suggested them, which the user could optionally click on, this is a very significant difference to “hijacked”, or “rewrote” as that’d be malicious, whereas with this approach the user chooses. This was later removed.

use vivaldi

Vivaldi is not comparable brave in terms of all the hardening they’ve done. Firefox is a great alternative, and that’s what I myself use, but I always recommend brave to less tech-savvy people, especially if they’re coming from something like chrome.

+1 for scoop, great package manager. I also install chocolatey as a backup in case an app isn’t on the scoop repo’s, but I always try scoop first.