Posts by TopSide

Brave roasts DuckDuckGo over Bing privacy exception

Stop kidding yourself

This all relies on trust. These are two companies both trying to sell you into trusting them for profit. If you are surprised when any of them turn out to not be as trustworthy as they try to pretend, you're a fool. This is the internet, there is no such thing as genuine privacy. Not with a VPN. Not with the US defence force owned TOR.

It was also very funny for Brave to stand up on a soap box talking about their competitor then when it comes to questions about the website they point to being owned by their employee they go "hey, trust us". Expect companies to put profit before your benefit.

Re: Targeted advertising needs to die

"IMHO it doesn't actually serve anyone but the ad-slingers."

Who else do you imagine ADs are supposed to serve? They're ads, their point isn't to make your life better or behave in an egalitarian manner, their point is to make businesses money and nothing more.

Targetted ads push passive ads to the kinds of people that are most suspectible to conversion with the sole purpose of parting fools from their money. It's that simple, no one is pretending it's anything else. Everything that happens in the world doesn't have to benefit you mate.