Comments by "kxmode" (@kxmode) on "Washington Post" channel.

1:54 Brave too. The underlining tech is Chromium; Google's open source for Chrome. Brave is basically what Chrome would be like if Google were more serious about privacy.
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You could switch to Brave. It does all that stuff for you right out of the box. No fess. No mess. It even imports all your bookmarks and history so that you can pick up where you left at in Firefox.
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No. It's actually pretty accurate. I'm a web developer and my preferred browser to develop on is Chrome. However, at home my default browser is Brave.
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@sarahwbs I am a professional web developer for 20 years. There are quality-of-life purposes for cookies. There are simple purposes for cookies, and there are nefarious purposes for cookies. It's up to the developer(s) to decide what type of cookie(s) they create. Most don't go the route of creating global trackers. Google, along with Facebook, are two companies that have chosen that route. But you would know all this if you where truly a web programmer/developer.
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It's not fake news. That's how global tracker cookies work. (I am a professional web developer for 20 years. I know cookies.)
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@abbeleon People, in general, are stupid. That is one of the primary reasons why stuff like the fake moon landing, the earth is flat, or nuclear power is more dangerous and less efficient than solar and wind exist.
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It's not fake news. That's how global tracker cookies work. (I am a professional web developer for 20 years. I know cookies.)
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@hunterhenryk That's reaching and well within the land of conspiracy theory. This is the kind of nonsense that allows stuff like the fake moon landing and the flat earth belief to exist.
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"Hold my beer." - Brave
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Go Brave
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@tylermoore3834 You can try to tap into the moral ambiguities for why the video exists, but facts are facts, and your ethics degree doesn't change the facts about what global tracking cookies are and how they operate in the video.
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@LittleHomieLightningtech Nothing is wrong with FF except it is FF. If Chrome users want an alternative that's still Chrome, Brave is it. Brave uses Chromium. Essentially it's what Chrome would be if Google didn't have a conflict of interest.
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Brave fan here. :)
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most websites have a prompt asking to use cookies. When you click the OK button you're giving them permission to do this.
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@hunterhenryk That's not stalking though because they don't know the shopper. They're only tracking the basket's data.
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@hunterhenryk Perhaps but that's a lot of deep diving into the data to map cart data to shopper data. That kind of analytical work is possible by data scientists on any amounts of data that have a common intersecting data points. Conversely, the data gathered today by websites with global trackers brings all the data together to create a user profile. That goes way beyond what brick-and-mortar stores can do. They can't track the shopper before and after they leave as global trackers can.
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@hunterhenryk That's quite literally what I wrote. The marketing folks can act faster when they don't need someone to dive deep into the data.
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Has no bearing on the content. That's an ad running on Youtube's advertising platform.
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@hunterhenryk And I'm pointing out that the "this video is brought to you by Google's competitor" is an inaccurate statement because the ad is randomly served up by Youtube's advertising platform.
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Brave is a browser that has a built-in ad blocker that's actually better than Ad Block.
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@sarahwbs That's what cookies do. Generally speaking, cookies are benign. However, what you're confusing are the QOL cookies (like those that save your logged in state, so you don't have to login every time a page loads, or those that save items in your cart) that are entirely harmless with the tracker cookies that follow you around the Internet. The original purpose behind Google's global tracker was QOL single sign-on stuff so that when you logged into one of Google's products (like Gmail), you logged into all (e.g., Youtube, Google+, Drive, Google's Office Suite, and so forth). Where Google went wrong is they took this awesome cookie tech and polymorphed it into a profile tracker for Google's marketing platform. It's not unlike what Facebook did with users data for their marketing platform. There's a reckoning coming for Google, and they know it. But they don't appear to be concerned with it now.
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