• Epzillon@lemmy.world
      10 months

      Would you mind giving some context? Ive never used Brave, but my dad does. In which sense is it a “scam”? Would want him to switch if its terrible

      • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
        10 months

        People care more about CEO’s opinion on politics and hate Web3 crypto more than they understand technical browser stuff.

        Brave is far from perfect and the company had their contreveries but honestly if you disable all the cryptocrap and tweak it a tiny bit so it does not show you ads and feature you don’t use it is the best chromium browser in regards to security and privacy.

        Ungoogled chromium by default can’t even compare, it’s not crap but brave does so much more than it’s better for the vast majority of users.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    10 months

    Just because PewDiePie switched to Linux doesn’t mean we should listen to his browser recommendations

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10 months

      True but he’s sparking more interest in FOSS so that’s still a good thing. I doubt his advice is perfect but if it gets more people started onto their own journey it’s a win.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    10 months

    … I don’t think listening to random big influencers is a good way forward (in anything).

    (As to the list - others already pointed out everything, y’all nerds know shit! <3)

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    10 months

    What exactly has he done to warrant considering this? He’s a yt star, not a privacy expert.

  • M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10 months

    Wait. He hasn’t crumbled into dust or whatever these “Offputting guy with shit politics who has an inexplicable army of irritating tween fans” youtubers do when they’re past their shelf life? I thought he was irritating when I was in high school. That was…what, thirteen years ago now?

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
    10 months

    I know it’s been said, but Brave is a hard no. Replace it with Ungoogled Chromium. I haven’t seen the video so I don’t understand why it’s in the “not ideal for a normal human” list, and I am biased since I use plenty of “not for normal” tools.

  • 6R1M R34P3R@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10 months

    Not of his. This is a known widespread tierlist made by other person (I do not remember if this came from Reddit, a YT video or what, but it is well known)

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
    10 months

    That’s a good find that famous people are getting into FOSS (should be free as in freedom too). But it’s really not a good thing that they spread a non expert speaking to the crowd.

    Tier lists are meant to be mainly subjective and pretty relative to the person that made it. In that way Pewdipie could quote experts but in no case should make a tier list based on what he found the last weeks (I didn’t fully watched the video so maybe I’m wrong and he made a big disclaimer)

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      10 months

      If you watch the video, Felix tells you twice in the same sentence that he uses Arch.

      Lemmy had taught me that this means Felix IS an expert on FOSS

      • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
        10 months

        How sorry didn’t know, so that make him really one of the biggest expert in FOSS 100%

    • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10 months

      I’m considering switching to Floorp, I’ll need to check of Pewdiepie has his reasons and what those are.

      • Censed@lemmy.zipEnglish
        10 months

        He barely touches on the topic of browsers, it’s like 40 second segment, i don’t think he even made the tier list.

  • WQMann@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10 months

    Ngl, feel like his tier list is based on usability while avoiding big tech.

    Tbh even if this tierlist is not the best or great, it still is “good enough”. Plus the most important thing is to get tons of people interested.

    I rather have “good enough” tier list that reaches to millions of people, then have a perfect tierlist that only reaches out to less than a dozen people.

    Because amongst the millions of people who are interested, thousands of them will do their own research into privacy and dig deeper into it.

    Plus right now, the biggest weakness of privacy is the fact that our community is too small to make an impact.

    Having someone give this much outreach and influence to attract attention towards privacy is a good thing. (well, as long as their advice are on the positive end of the spectrum, and pewdiepie’s advise surely is, even if its not perfect)

  • Sips'@slrpnk.net
    10 months

    This is a random screenshot he used in hos video for roughly 2 seconds. This is not his tierlist.

  • Epzillon@lemmy.world
    10 months

    LibreWolf W. Missing my boy Zen Browser on there tho

    Edit: also RIP Mull 😔✊