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  • miss phant@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    481·
    1 day ago

    I like (hate) how in the other version people are claiming that it’s not sexist but in this one suddenly people are confused who’s supposed to be the one who’s wrong.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      17 hours ago

      Yeah definitely move ladybird over to the right. Dunno about Brave but I’m inclined to mistrust it due to being for profit.

      Also Bitcoin isn’t really a privacy thing. Your transactions are broadcast to the whole network by design. You need other privacy tools to protect you from having your transactions tied to your identity.

  • nil@piefed.caEnglish
    28·
    1 day ago

    never heard of veilid. interesting.

    I also want to try Tor but I’m scared I could be arrested from simply using it.

    Sigh. I’m the FUTO guy after all

    • FuyuhikoDate@feddit.orgEnglish
      211·
      1 day ago

      Depending on your country… In Germany using a Tor entry or exit node can be troublesome. A middlenode is okay.

      Also I2P could be interesting for you.

      BTW. what is futo?

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I’ve heard one of the main goals of tor is to enable people in authoritarian regimes to escape censorship privately. I hope there are ways to connect or download the tor browser without making it obvious that’s what you’re doing.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        23 hours ago

        Tor can be run via a usd stick. The browser and all.

        It just looks as much like normal encrypted traffic as possible.

        But yes, a physical search will find it, but at that point you have other problems.

        • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          If your home is being physically searched you’re probably cooked already. At best you’re in a country that wouldn’t do so unless they knew for sure they’d find something. At worst you’re in a country that doesn’t actually care of there’s anything to find.

  • rook@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    20 hours ago

    Why is brave bad, other than the crypto in the browser and link redirects?

    • Sophocles@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Most of the arguments I have seen against it are ethos based, which imo is valid considering privacy involves a lot of trust in the company itself. Brave has had a bad track record with doing shady things (def the crypto part) but also things like blocking ads and replacing it with their own, and leaking TOR DNS records among other shady practices/mistakes. Plus on top of that it is based on chromium (maintained by Google) which for some might be a pro or a con.

  • hypna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    Is anyone using Veilid for anything yet? Last I checked it was more an interesting experiment.

  • Hirom@beehaw.orgEnglish
    83·
    1 day ago

    Bicoin isn’t useful for private daily payments given the high volatility and fees and inefficiency. It was the intention but didn’t pan out.

    Today’s main uses cases for Bitcoin:

    • Speculative investments
    • Money laundering
    • Russia, North Korea, and Iran escaping international sanctions
    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      81·
      1 day ago

      If you actually holistically understand how something works and still don’t have confidence in it based on those fundamentals, you don’t have to spread misinformation about it to have the thing collapse, it should do so on it’s own.

      The reason bitcoin isn’t good for anonymous payments is because it’s ledger is transparent and fully auditable, by design. It was never meant to be truly private and never advertised as such by it’s developers. The word you hear in the bitcoin space is “pseudonymous” which is the same level of masking you have from a username on a social media site. Privacy has never been it’s priority.

      • Hirom@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        21 hours ago

        Claiming Bitcoin is anonymous is indeed a common mistake, which I didn’t make.

        Pseudonyms can help provide privacy, the issue is that those pseudonyms are permanently tied to Bitcoin wallets. Making a transaction with an exchange or seller while providing a full identity allow that exchange to trace all transactions and reassociate identities.

        You do make good point, Bitcoin’s use of permanent pseudonyms is another reason why Bitcoin isn’t useful for daily private payments.

        • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          17 hours ago

          Privacy on a ledger requires anonymity, I think you understand that and therefore why I addressed both. The pseudonymity of bitcoin is incidental to the technology, not even that was intended as a privacy aid and even the whitepaper points out this discrepancy. Your representation of bitcoin’s original intentions aren’t accurate, but are a common misconception that I assume arose from cryptocurrency’s “killer app” (Darknet markets).