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Kinda new on here but am loving the bare bones feel to the forum. The karma bit in my previous comment was added as a sarcastic aid. I personally don't care much for gaining karma. Thank you for this extra context. Very helpful.

Except I (throwawei) had to login to another account (this one) to reply you as the downvotes triggered some soft ban limit on the account from replying/commenting.

So much for free speech...

I would post photos holding today's newspaper to prove ownership of both accounts. Probably not worth the trouble anyway

HN Commandments: pray you don't offend the rain gods. Your karma will be wiped away in a furiously terrible flood.

> IDFA

The mechanism for tracking users is already present. What more proof do you need?

Even if you manage to toggle 3rd parties out of your phone. You cannot toggle the Apple out of it.

I enjoyed Mad Men. But comparing web advertising today to the 70-80s is disingenuous.

Fact of the matter is, advertising today / web marketing relies on user tracking. I'm yet to see anyone debunk this.

Not true. Facebook doesn't do any of this automatically, manner of speaking, unless the user explicitly informs the addon to do so.

This looks like simply naive thinking. Without evidence to backup your statement about Apple, everything about it breaks the cardinal rule of the ads business.

Not enough. Need to see it go down 20-30% more. The BTC pump craze needs to die down so my diamond hands can buy it from the weak hands.

Ouch. I can relate to a bit of some of your issues. What saved me from all these seemingly mysterious bugs is going with a pure Arch system. I was using Manjaro at the time and it wasn't fun patching it just so that it could break on the next system upgrade.

I digress, in my experience, whole system freezes usually points to system running out of ram and/or swap to fallback on. Might be worth checking out zram. Though this admittedly is a problem the Linux kernel has had for the longest time.

After using a Linux distro as my main desktop OS, there was no way I was ever going back to the monstrosity that is Windows. No matter how bad Linux sucks in some regards, it is the black sheep of the family that will always have that special place in my heart.

Any program that is Windows only, will be run on a VM. I like my systems clean, focused, lightweight & minimal.

Just because you (unique use case) don't see the problem doesn't mean it does not exist (for the common average user). The whole browser "sync" you get with Chrome is much more than keeping your bookmarks. It is a feature that now includes Google's ecosystem and for its users, the majority of people, it allows them to pick up where they left from. A major advantage in user experience.

Firefox has a long way to catch up to the polish & convenience of Chromium-based browsers. This is just a sad fact.

As for Brave, I won't give divulge too much to the recent tor dns leak news. Anyone knowledgeable enough to be using Tor knows the dangers of using a different browser from Tor and it's consequences.