Why even in brackets? It is NOT powered by Ghost. They use code so they can use Ghost themes and some search lib that was made by ghost or ghost uses as well or whatever but its NOT AT ALL Ghost.
Well, I think what should change is people browsers. Brave blocks ads and fingerprinting by default. Funny enough, the "easy Privacy" list is suspiciously not found in the default filter lists.
There is a Firefox fork that comes with uBlock Origin by default. There is Blockada for Android that blocks ads (and trackers I assume) system-wide not just in browser. But I think it's functionality is limited as it just uses a virtual "VPN" to block things. I think it's like a hosts file that redirects a bunch of ips to localhost so they never get loaded.
It's kind of silly to demand websites to change. What needs to change is things on the user's end. If these trackers were blocked by 90% of users, they would probably consider not using them and wasting time on money on the effort of maintaining that shit. And it would apply not only to nonprofits, but to the entire internet. They need to be FORCED to change, everything else is silly. Like this "do not track" BS that asks websites nicely to not track you, and they can decide (most do) to do not give a fuck about your setting and track you anyway.
I am curious of Brave that has a build in Adblocker that is based on uBlock Origin AFAIK but build partially in Rust I believe. If that is closer to the Chromium's core code and not merely dependent on what web extensions offer in Chromium. Maybe they can make things happen that are possible only in Firefox though extensions that way.
I think Brave is interestingly positioned, they sort of sound like a dream come true from a technical perspective, chromium with manifest v3 but still with fully functioning adblocking.
But I mean Brave has PLENTY of skeletons in its closet and is a dark horse that really doesn't seem to have the momentum. Firefox had TONS more momentum and they're still hardly relevant nowadays.
Well I do not have the numbers on Brave, and they themselves do not have them because it identifies as Chrome with its user agent AFAIK. So there are actually no stats on market share!
I would bet Brave has the same if not MOVE "momentum" as Firefox. Mozilla's things the old monetization model of the web should stay that way. They think ad blocking is bad, that is why they will never offer it by default. They also think the web should be even more censored than Big Tech wants. Used to be a big FX fan, but:
1. The above. And they were in bed with Google from day 1.
2. Chromium is just faster.
3. I am a web dev, and it feels extremely silly to use a browser engine that nobody uses as a browser.
Not sure when I made my switch to Brave, but it was like 1 or 2 years ago. I was holding strong on Firefox. Their Servo was promising, but then they ran out of money and laid off the staff working on it.
Brave also has their BAT going, that I find utterly stupid if not a straight scam. They advertise "no ads - no tracking" that is true by default. But then they want you to sign up for their stupid token to "get paid to look at ads that TRACK YOU" it's kind of hilarious how they market this shit. They do more or less exactly what Google is doing, except that the advertisers will probably get the real names of people who are this BAT BS. But the funny thing is they do not care, they get behavioral data of all kinds of browsing habits and that is EXACTLY what they want. Brave sells it as this great "privacy" thing, yet you have to give them your data for the payouts, so they know exactly who you are I am pretty sure. Not done it, will never do it but with all the Crypto regulation and KYC and so on they're just building a tiny "competitor" to Google that more or less does the same thing, maybe a little bit more privacy-friendly. I detest this idea. But a small community of people is all over this crap. Anyway, I stop my rant. Just deactivate the symbol for display on the address bar, thankfully they have a setting for that. Without BAT Brave is a great Browser.
>I would bet Brave has the same if not MOVE "momentum" as Firefox.
Five years after Firefox officially released, it was used by a third of the internet. People had a religious fervour around Firefox, Microsoft was the great satan for unleashing IE6 upon the planet, it was a great evil for sites to not support Firefox or god forbid actively block Firefox user agents.
For about two straight years Firefox after release absolutely slaughtered IE in almost every way (extensions, tabs, customization, performance, web standards), it was still clearly the best browser for the next two years, and Chrome had to create a bleeding-edge world-class browser and promote it with a gigantic large scale global ad campaign before Firefox started to falter.
By contrast, brave was released 6 years ago I've never seen a non-tech person use Brave in my life. It's biggest technical advantage seems to be a souped up adblocker. It really doesn't compare to Firefox's momentum.
I was always opposed to this STUPID requirement that you NEED to tie Signal to your phone number. I never used it and AFAIK even for the Desktop client you need to have a phone number. Wire and other messengers that use the same or similar protocols do not have this issue.
I am not the only one hating this, from the very start this was a huge critique on Signal by many people, but they never changed. I did not even know they used a 3rd party service to "verify" phone numbers. This is a HUGE issue. People who truly want to stay PRIVATE, politically hunted people who are in life and death situations should never ever use Signal.
Pretty bold claim to say the most popular framework has no future.
I guess most websites are "very simple projects" for your standards. Not everyone codes full fledged JS applications with whatever you do. I am certainly not a beginner and I like BS and I think it still has a very bright future ahead. BS 4.0 is the prefect framework for the average modern website. I am sure Foundation and other Frameworks are great as well, I actually never really compared. BSs devteam is highly active and the amount of exposure it gets and the fact that I know how it works makes me stick with it.
I meant by "very simple projects" static websites and dynamic websites that have very limited dynamism, pages. But something like Semantic UI, you can rely on it to build complex dynamic structures with sensible and good looking defaults, If you want more, it's very easy to customize without conflicting Semantic files with your customizations.
