In the rare instance that I need a chromium browser, I use chromium. But there are very few websites for which I need it and I think I have found alternatives for them all.

The Google account’s recovery is tied to a phone number, and the Facebook account wanted me to identify pictures or ask friends for help.

I was not trying to take over those accounts, merely stop all of the emails. I have contacted both Google and Facebook about it and have done nothing in 5+ years.

lol that was actually my weekly stock check call. I happened to ask about the Space Wolves Combat Patrol while on the call.

Comment referenced: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17810660

Not my work, it is from a saved comment by @cannedtuna@lemmy.world in a now deleted post.

This is a very well written an thorough article and I highly recommend reading it. If you don’t want to however, here is a summary of the key points:

• Brendan Eich’s anti-LGBTQ+ political involvement

• • Brendan Eich donated to anti-LGBT political organizations, politicians, and initiatives such as CA Prop 8 which banned same-sex marriages.

• 2016 — Brave Browser promises to replace webpage ads

• • Brave promised to replace ads with privacy friendly ads that would actually pay publishers and even users with a volatile cryptocurrency while keeping a cut for themselves. This never actually came to life and was criticized as “blatantly illegal”.

• 2018 — Brave runs a questionable donation campaign

• • Brave collected donations for popular content creators without actually involving or seeking consent from said creators. In short they accepted donations in crypto for creators, but would only pay out if it reached a minimum value of $100. When called out, Brave said refunds were impossible.

• 2020 — Brave injects referral links when visiting crypto wallets

• • Brave injected their own referral links for services such as Binance without informing users or asking permission.

• 2020 — Brave puts ads in user’s home screens

• • Brave turned their home screen image rotator into a place to serve ads, many of which were suspicious or crypto related.

• 2021 - Brave ships an insecure Tor feature

• • Brave added a Tor feature which exposed users DNS requests

• 2023 - Brave hides their crawlers to websites

• • Brave refuses to disclose their crawler bot to websites since many websites want to block Brave Search. Brave will only chose not to crawl a website if it also blocks Google’s crawler.

• 2024 - So-called “privacy browser” deprecated advanced fingerprinting protection

• • Brave removed a the Strict, Block Fingerprinting privacy feature from their browser.

• And More!

• • Brave paid for targeted ads for users searching for Firefox in the Play Store and ran a campaign to “Forget the Fox”. When called out on this the VP publicly denied it and claimed it was photo-shopped.
• • The VP of Brave, Luke Mulks, frequently posts about all things crypto, from NFTs to FTX, and uses AI-gen images to promote them. He also frequently re-tweets right-wing activists.
• • Brendan Eich’s feed also frequently contains right-wing content and Republican propaganda despite his claims to be “independent”.

Edit: corrected a mistake noted below.

And run by a homophobic crypto bro.

Whether it affects inflation or not, it is having a negative impact on my small business. I own a brick and mortar game shop, people are spending far less than normal. They are worried about food and other necessities to be able to spend on leisure.

January and June are the only two months I have not had to play rent and other bills for the shop out of savings. I have not had to do that for 6 years, not even during COVID.

When I opened my business there was a company that made Android apps that had the same name. They since closed and I own the domain. I still get their Facebook and play store emails. I have tried to stop emails from both but that appears to be impossible.

I wonder if we published that one.

By them *gestures broadly *

I had a friend who pretty much only eats because he knows if he does not he will die. He is perpetually underweight. He just does not enjoy eating at all. Even foods he enjoys he hates to eat.

Meanwhile, I am over here knowing I am full and standing in the fridge to see what I can make to eat.

Try a truck stop.

If this post has been an example of what you get for $35 a month, it is obvious you are getting ripped off.

It is not a belief, it is a fact this does not belong in this community.

What are the features included at this price?

I worked for a vanity publisher that would publish literally anything you sent to them. But you had to buy all of the books yourself. They did nothing to help promote your book. They would cold ship books to bookstores along with a bill, most either refused the shipments, or dumped them.

I did the layout for children’s books. And let me tell you, when I say they would publish anything I mean anything. There was a book about snails, but none of the “snails” had shells, and they all looked like penises. There were a couple kids science books that were factually incorrect. We were not allowed to correct or change anything.

Same with Mlem.

Sorry I did not realize you were a Russian propaganda troll. Have a day.

Why are they using the Russian spelling of the capital of Ukraine?

I am in the states, my only non-Walmart grocery store is 0.5km and before my bike was stolen I used to ride there for groceries quite often. I rarely walk it, but I also hike ~9km a day with my dog.

I am in New Mexico and our temps are more like 36-39c. I am trying to get out of my truck more.