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We should sack those responsible for sacking those responsible.

This is true! Just chop off the "-dia" and you'll hear how it came to be "envy." Hence Nvidia's staring eye logo, and their green (with envy) color.

At least on desktop, it would be like fighting over an entire cookie. Still low, but not as low as this.

On Android? They think that Firefox is a significant competitor on Android?

This is like fighting another kid over a single chocolate chip while some guy is sitting on the other side of the room chowing down on an entire cookie cake. Ridiculous.

In fairness, Brave does have a built-in ad blocker that (at least years ago) did an acceptable job and is a part of the binary, so is not impacted by Chromium's Manifest V3 rug pull.

If you decide that's the way you want to go, though, you're (1) trusting their promise to never remove it or degrade its effectiveness, (2) reducing your choice about how you experience ads, and (3) contributing to Google's browser hegemony. So I definitely don't recommend it.

But technically it does have adblock.

For sure, though at some point you still hit the centralization of DNS. There are distributed DNS resolvers, but you're still going to be a little bit beholden to domain name authorities. So with that backstop as a given, sometimes it's better to just live with the hosting company but be as platform-agnostic as possible so that you can jump ship to another one if needed—unless you're willing to go full TOR, I suppose.

Interesting idea. I don't know if we have a robust enough infrastructure for that right now, but it's conceptually interesting.

That costs a lot of money. "Finding" that sort of thing is basically just going to involve donating a bunch of cash, on an ongoing basis.

Indeed! Which is why they need to be shown the real world. Lemmy isn't that, but it could shock their systems into believing that /r/conservative isn't, either.

Fun game: any time I see a sovcit post, I mentally replace all the sovcit words with fan fiction terms.

"Just pulled over again. Talked about my Shadow the Hedgehog OC. They said to drive i need a drivers license. They were fine with my Harry/Draco slashfic

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It's an illusion. Not that many people care (which was the problem in November), but the ones who do are loud about it.

The issue is one of education. The Republicans have been spewing non-stop misinformation, and the populace is too uneducated to understand the difference. When people actually know what's going on and understand it, they overwhelmingly oppose conservative policies. Which is why Project 2025 wants to take a sledgehammer to public education.

If Democrats diverted all of their advertising budget toward remedial education of the electorate, I think they'd find themselves in a much better state in 2028.

It's not exactly 0%. Their ineptitude is still fully on display, and that's always been our greatest hope. But it is pretty bleak, and pinning our future on the hopes that the other side makes a mistake only makes it bleaker.