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	▲	godelski 3 days ago
		`> I'm telling you that Firefox is going to be out of business soon` Do you not think everyone saying Firefox is going to be out of business soon plays a role in this? Regardless, I think you've ignored the root of my argument. I'm not trying to be a Firefox fanboy here but it's not like there's many options. The playing field is Chrome, Firefox, Safari. So only one of these is not "big tech". `> Metrics can be transmitted without revealing the user. This is well known.` This is not well known and I think you've kinda "told on yourself" here. It is fairly well known in the privacy community that it is difficult to transmit user data without accidentally revealing other information. Here's a rather famous example[0,1]. I'd encourage you to read it and think carefully about how deanonymization might be possible after just reading a description of the datasets they deanonymize. `> You can't suggest anything. I am done with this conversation.` If you wish to disengage then that is your choice. I am really trying to engage with you faithfully here. I'm not even really attacking Brave here, as my critique is over the Chromium ecosystem. I think if you look at my points again you can see how they would dramatically shift if Brave were based off of Gecko or Webkit. Honestly, I would be encouraging Brave usage were it under those umbrella. Or even better, if it had its own engine! Because my point is about monopolization. [0] https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2018/project/Archie-Gers... [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610105
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