Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

legolas@fedit.pl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Duckduckgo? That’s just a search engine, no?

  I agree on the rest of the parts tho

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  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, odd inclusion. Duckduckgo is indeed a search enginge, but it’s essentially just a front end for Bing.

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    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sadly yes :( i’ve been keeping an eye on mojeek, hopefully it’ll get better.

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      • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ecosia is building a custom search engine index, ETA summer 2025

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    DDG and Brave were pushed as “censorship free” alternatives, back when I was looking into covid disinformation, because the very obviously fake websites would sometimes rank higher on them

    There may be more to it though

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve heard all kinds of bad rumours about Brave but idk if any of it is true.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They’re balls deep in crypto but even the crypto bros don’t buy their bullshit

        reddit.com/…/brave_browser_scam_a_fake_privacy_br…

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  • legolas@fedit.pl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean yeah, doesnt matter. The point is people shared alternatives to big tech just like folks who are not in the power right now

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    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mistook it as you saying DDG is alt-tech. My mistake

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• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In both cases it was primarily performative for Americans but this time there will be considerable chunk of Europeans who will be looking to leave big tech for services in non-hostile countries.

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• boramalper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How is Brave right wing? Because of cryptocurrencies?

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Brave’s business model is a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. It man-in-the-middles the site’s ads, replacing them with Brave’s own, then holds the revenue hostage unless the site gives legitimacy to Brave’s crypto by accepting it as payment.

    For comparison, “normal” ad-blocking consists of an end-user exercising his property right to control the operation of his own computer by programming it not to display the ads at all.

    Hopefully you can see how the thing Brave does is very different, and much more ethically fraught.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not explicitly rightwing.

    A couple years ago Musk was recommending Signal.

    It’s just an example of right wing people recommending alternatives.

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    • jonathan@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The CEO is problematic and right wing, for examples see the most recent paragraphs in his career section on Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

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      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wait, the Mozilla guy who got pressured to resign over opposition to gay marriage is the Brave guy?? Fuck him lol.

        Unsurprising he’s also a dipshit about COVID.

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