If it relies on Chromium as a base in any way, it is still beholden to Google’s design decisions.

I think the difference between “targeted” and “contextual” is an important one to make re: privacy. “Targeted” means they’re tracking you and using your characteristics to customize the ads; “contextual” means they’re just showing ads related to the search term.

• Brave is based on Chromium and therefore helps contribute to Google having hegemony over web standards.

Always use a Firefox-based browser, even if you think Mozilla sucks.

check this current post out on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@cm0002@lemmy.world/114678153485329034

It just redirected me straight back to lemmy.world. (Also, Lemmy doesn’t render the URL into a hyperlink correctly.)

“Lucky” for me, my parents are so computer-illiterate that they don’t have the first clue about how to use any Meta stuff to begin with.

The way the PSC is elected is fucked up and unjust (regardless of what the racist appeals court says). The worst conservative pieces of shit are obviously going to win because that’s how the system is rigged.

Is this a copypasta? I’m getting some deja vu reading it.

Seems to me that changing the zoning code to disallow drive-thrus entirely would be an even better idea.

Literally the first books the NAZIs burned.

Trump to FALSELY CLAIM TO revoke California vehicle emission rules on Thursday

Fucking get it right, headline writers! This shit is pure consent-manufacturing.

He correctly understood the context in which you wrote it, which was defending fascist-accelerationist non-voters and third-party voters.

Multiple people in the thread are talking about using them because of worries about a kid running out into traffic.

Quit pretending that a statement has to apply 100% of the time in every possible circumstance in order to be generally true.

It’s also the difference between a meme and spam.

People are alluding to it, but not attributing the blame correctly: the “need” to leash kids is yet another negative consequence of car-dependent urban design.

So if nobody else is in charge of them, Newsom should take command and order them to go back home.

What the fuck do you think learning vocabulary by reading is, if not memorization? You’re just doing it subconsciously rather than intentionally.

This raises the question: what happens if you ask for that in Australia?

And Epstein material on their politicians.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeffrey-epstein-steven-hoffenberg-intelligence-agencies-spy-1197708/

This is copium. Nobody’s being brought to justice unless we force it to happen.