@how @switchingsocial Brave is actually quite good. I'd encourage you to try it for a week on your desktop or mobile device. We'd love your feedback afterwards! π
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 17:03:35 UTC Sampson β -
Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 16:32:15 UTC Sampson β @z428 @chronos @switchingsocial I appreciate your balanced perspective, Kristian. Please do let us know if there is anything further I can do to assist you in your evaluation of Brave and our services. All the best!
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 01:53:01 UTC Sampson β @chronos I'm sorry you're upset. Have a nice evening.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 01:50:47 UTC Sampson β @chronos That may be true, but it's irrelevant. Vox Day wasn't added as an optional search engine, Infogalactic was. Infogalactic doesn't appear to deny the holocaust, so your point is invalid.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 01:48:35 UTC Sampson β @chronos No idea what you mean by "we added a holocaust denier to our browser." It was one of many search engines. Also, doesn't look like Infogalactic denies the holocaust: https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Holocaust
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 01:46:45 UTC Sampson β @chronos With sincere respect, I think you're making much ado about nothing. It was one of many search engines, and wasn't default. There aren't swastikas on the page or anything obviously alarming. It was later removed following user feedback.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 01:40:42 UTC Sampson β @chronos Or, Eich received numerous requests for a page, and subsequently gave it a quick once-over before suggesting we honor the community request. That is certainly quite reasonable.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 01:25:30 UTC Sampson β @chronos Not sure how that detail would cause us to not list this as an option in the early days. It was just another search engine among many. Cursory review of the front page raised no alarms. Gone now.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 01:24:07 UTC Sampson β @chronos I'm not saying a deep review wouldn't have revealed connections. I'm saying it isn't a stretch to understand that a cursory glance at the front page (and the name) give the impression the site is _just another wiki_. Besides, it was removed in a later update. Certainly you can see this from our perspective.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 01:07:45 UTC Sampson β @chronos Do you have any reason to believe Brendan saw this as a Neo Nazi website when he filed that issue? I mean, I just checked the site out and the front page has articles on DNA, Venus, and some other seemingly benign Wiki-content. Certainly, if you're being fair, you would agree that a cursory glance at this site would suggest it's just another Wiki-style source, no?
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:58:53 UTC Sampson β @chronos Not quite; tipping was implemented and running (you're right about that). But we had some UI/UX issues. We identified verified creators as such, but not unverified creators. Tom helped us understand this mistake. We then made improvements to the entire system within the next week. We didn't wait for bad PR; we knocked out those improvements in record time :) Again, the feedback was immensely helpful, and our system is infinitely better today as a result.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:57:14 UTC Sampson β @chronos @z428 @switchingsocial Yes, Brendan filed that issue. We're a small company, and were even smaller at that time. Brendan has filed many issues on behalf of users, this was no different.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:56:00 UTC Sampson β @Dex @switchingsocial @Lobst Some mixture of misinformation and outdated data there. Tom's feedback was excellent, and helped us improve the system in many ways. In the end, Tom approved of our changes too: https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1085238644926005248
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:54:18 UTC Sampson β @koyu @switchingsocial @BurungHantu Because we are a privacy-focused browser, objectively so. If you can show reason to believe otherwise, we would appreciate the feedback. We work in the open; you can scour our code on github.com/brave. Our aim is to be transparent, progressive, and to develop a new sustainability model for the Web we all know and love.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:52:42 UTC Sampson β @gendertreyf @switchingsocial Users are already blocking harmful ads and trackers. Brave didn't start that. What Brave is doing is working on a new sustainability model so that creators do not continue to lose revenue to ad-blockers, fraud, and ever-changing policies. Brave is working quite well, and growing in popularity. Plus, under our model, the user also gets paid (70% of the ad-spend goes to the user today).
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:50:25 UTC Sampson β @efertone @switchingsocial Brave doesn't do any ad-replacement; I'm not sure which browser you tested, but it couldn't have been Brave if you saw ad-replacement.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:47:46 UTC Sampson β @machetebadger @switchingsocial @fasnix You can see the x-brave-partner header in your own traffic when you visit a partner domain. Note again that these do not contain any user information. These serve in the place of a custom user agent string, which Brave does not use. Nothing harmful or unethical at all here. Hope that helps!
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:46:10 UTC Sampson β @machetebadger @switchingsocial @fasnix There's quite a bit of confusion here; Brave Ads are opt-in, and do not appear in web pages. Brave Ads appear first as OS-level notifications. You get 70% of the revenue for participating. These ads are able to be very targeted, since they are matched on-device against your history. No data leaves the device, so Brave isn't able to spy on you or your data. Custom headers were used for Brave Partner domains; no user data in there whatsoever.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:44:04 UTC Sampson β @machetebadger @switchingsocial @fasnix Brave doesn't inject ads into webpages. Brave Ads are opt-in and first surface as OS notifications. You get 70% for seeing the notification. You can then click to open the add in its own tab, keeping it separate from any other content you may be viewing.
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Sampson β (jonathansampson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 00:42:21 UTC Sampson β @ChrisTalleras @switchingsocial Not exactly "just another Chromium browser"; we make numerous modifications to the Chromium project. We also build in better security tooling, and options for you to support creators effortlessly. Plus, our efforts to reform digital advertising into a privacy-respecting, opt-in industry that pays you (the user) 70% for your attention. That's pretty swell too ;)