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Good advice from a Hillary Clinton supporter
Les:
Interesting, does Brave work well? I'm on a Mac and currently using chrome and duck duck go for search engine, and not terribly fond of chrome but better than safari or others I've tried.
Mali:
--- Quote from: Les on October 02, 2018, 06:54:29 PM ---Interesting, does Brave work well? I'm on a Mac and currently using chrome and duck duck go for search engine, and not terribly fond of chrome but better than safari or others I've tried.
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Like most of the other browsers out there right now, Brave uses the Chromium engine as it's base so technically Google still has hooks in it at a very low level, although there is still no definitive answer as to how much access Google has through the Chromium engine.
Brave is good, but still new so there are issues. I can't use it at work because the web application we use there doesn't always work when I use Brave.
Jito463:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on October 01, 2018, 04:51:29 PM ---Android phones, he argued, are the most unsafe devices: “Do not use Android phones. Android is also Google and Android records what you are doing whether you are online or not online.”
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The only thing I would take exception to, is this. The only viable alternative to Android is iPhone, and I absolutely refuse to use an Apple device if I can avoid it. For your average user it may be fine, but as someone who is technically inclined, it's far to restrictive and locked down for my taste. In any case, it's entirely possible to lock down the telemetry settings in Android (for example, I can completely disable voice activated search on my phone). Also, Android itself can be modified to strip out most of the Google stuff. While that requires more technical know-how, there are options like LineageOS that have already done this for many popular models (the downside is when you have a less common model, like my Samsung S7 Active variant).
As for browsers, I prefer Opera. The new Opera also uses the Blink (Chromium) engine, but it offers some features that I've rarely found in other browsers.
GreyGeek:
Mali gave the novice version.
The World Wide Web (WWW), also known as the Internet, was originally designed by a government agency, DARPA, as a means of communicating between government, military and academic institutions during a nuclear attack because a web of connections would allow the bypass of any connection that was destroyed during the attack. Initially, one had to know the "address" of the site they wanted to connect to and that address was given as four numbers, w.x.y.z (0-255.0-255.0-255.0-255) This number was called IPv4. At first one could keep a list of agency names and their "quad" numbers on a few pages. When that "internet" was given to the public, users replaced the quad numbers with site names and used the hosts file to link the site name to the quad number. As the number of users expanded it became obvious that even a hosts file couldn't efficiently hold hundreds of thousands of site name - quad number linkages.
Paul Mockapetris created what we now call the DNS, the Domain Name Server system. Rather than keeping the connection between sites ("Domains") and quad addresses (w.x.y.z) in hosts files Mockapetris established about a dozen root servers which held nothing but a two column database containing rows which held the domain name and its associated quad address. Databases are fast, but having only about a dozen servers to serve quad addresses to over 4 billion WWW users didn't work either. So, several hundred secondary domain name sub servers are stationed around the world. Those are the servers that serve quad addresses to the browsers of billions of people. When a new domain name is given a quad address that pair is sent to one of the primary DNS databases. Each of those databases update the hundreds of minor DNS servers spread around the world. That dissemination can take a few hours before a regular user can access a quad address by using a domain name. Also, the data sent back and forth was strictly what could be typed on a keyboard, in English. IOW, upper and lower case alphabet, the numbers, and a few symbolic characters. The Control and other keys were used to send control signals down the wire so the teletypes on the other end could issue a carriage return, or a page ejection. That collection of characters were called the ASCII character set. Just using the ASCII set to send information didn't allow graphics, tabular reports, font editing, and a lot more. Sir Timothy Bernard Lee created the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), which allowed the embedding of graphics, movies and a variety of fonts, He gave us the Internet in its present form, with one exception.
That exception is that about 4-5 years ago we ran out of available quad addresses that could be assigned to new domain names, i.e., web sites. To fix that problem a new numeric protocol was created, called IPv6. It creates a number so large that each grain of sand in the entire world could be issued its own IP address. And several other worlds could be tossed in as well. In your home every nail, every plank of wood, every floor and roof tile, every dish, every nut, bolt or screw, every appliance and everything in them, every fiber in your carpet could be assigned their own IPv6 address. We will never run out of IP addresses again. Ever. Never.
While I have in my hosts file actual IP addresses of websites I do not want to lose contact with if their DNS entry is blocked or removed, most of the entries in my hosts file contain domain names which I do NOT want to allow into my computer, matched to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0, or their Pv6 equivalent.
Now comes the dirty part. When the powers that be decide that they do not want you to access the site of a domain that publishes information the powers do not want you to have, the powers merely instruct the operators of the primary domains to remove the row in the database that links the quad address of the site you are interested in to its domain name. Unless you have that link in your hosts file you will not be able to access that domain name. When Obama gave away the Internet he gave away control of the DNS servers and the naming conventions.
However, hosting services like CloudFlare, which many people pay monthly fees to in order to host their blogs, videos, Internet businesses, etc., do not have to remove the doman name-quad address link in the primary DNS servers. All they have to do is send any requests for your quad number, also called an "IP address", to the infinite bit bucket, which on their servers is also 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0, the same as it is on your computer. Any one who normally visited your website on a regular basis will no longer be able to access your site even if your DNS-Quad link is still on the primary DNS servers. This is called "Blocking". Since CloudFlare, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, PayPal and all the other Marxist controlled hosting businesses are not government agencies they claim that they are not violating the 1st Amendment's free speech clause. But, IF the Internet is now the public commons, and it is, they are INDEED suppressing free speech and it is specifically speech of those with whom they disagree. Blocking of Conservative voices on a massive scale was first used by Obama in 2008 and again in 2012 when he weaponized the IRS against those conservative political groups which were applying for 501(c)3&4 status so they could solicit money with the advantage that donations are tax deductible. In the 2012 election ONLY Democrat donors were privileged to take tax deductions for political donations. 394 Conservative political groups were cut off at the knees. In today's political climate if you can NOT raise a LOT of money for advertising and to pay campaign workers you WILL lose. Period. So, by any practical measure, Obama and the Democrats stole the 2012 election.
In April of 2015 about 95 talking heads of the MNM met with Clinton's campaign chairman, Podesta, for "dinner". Their goal? To map out how they would report the campaign. Between then and November of 2016 it became obvious what methods they decided to use, and they have continued to use those methods since then. David Muir, for example, begins each 30 minute evening news with about 15 minutes of Trump bashing using the most ridiculous claims and story lines. Only Pelosi or Maxine Waters could write such crazy "news" stories.
Brave is what I use on my iPhone 6+
It's in the app store.
If you have a data plan then data that is downloaded to your phone when you browse adds to your data usage. Brave blocks that data and saves your plan data for important stuff you want see.
Here is its website: https://brave.com/
Brian Eich, the founder and CEO, was originally hired by Mozilla to be its CEO, but before he spent a single day in that position Mozilla's "Code of Conduct" officer decided that his views on abortion were "hateful" and got him fired. BTW, the "Code of Conduct" requires that if you refuse to reference an LGBQTwhatever by their "preferred gender and nouns" you will be fired. Or, indirectly, if you are a Christian or support Israel.
Mali is correct. Brave uses the Electron/Chromium engine:
https://brave.com/faq
--- Quote ---Why aren’t you using Mozilla’s Gecko engine on laptops?
We were, under a partially sandboxed, multi-process architecture called Graphene. But we did a careful head-to-head comparison and by every measure, Electron/chromium won
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The FAQ explains in more detail how you can get specific as to which ads you will or won't allow, blocking paradigms, etc....
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