• HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Peter Theil is the primary investor in Brave.

    For those not in the know, Peter Theil is a MAGA Christian-Nationalist fascist, and owner of Palantir.

    Palantir, is the military industrial complex company Trump has entrusted to create a mass surveillance network on US citizens, completely against the 4th Amendment, and dwarfing the NSA spying that was exposed by Snowden.

    You can garuntee any activity you do in Brave is being tracked and sent to that network.

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      3 hours ago

      People here up upvoting baseless conspiracies based on a braindead notice that technology is like magic.

      If everything was tracked and harvested by Brave, it’d destroy them much more than the bullshit “homophobe” allegation. Just use network traffic monitors to see if it does. You think people haven’t tried?

      Or do you think software can covertly send data without users being able to determine?

      It’s open source for fucks sake. Stop with the Alex Jones tier analysis.

      • uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
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        16 hours ago

        As much as palantir and brave are both pieces of shit, I agree a claim like that needs a source and proof. This is all highly measurable, so proof should be something easy to obtain and reproduce.

        A two year old video, when one of those years is 2025, is not a counterpoint either.

        Now both of us will of course be downvoted to oblivion by the “I don’t need proof to hate palantir” crowd, but hating palantir is not proof. We have proof of their other crimes.

          • uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
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            3 hours ago

            Yeah I think they all switched to another post where I asked for proof of a similar claim.

            The rule for preventing downvoters is if you call it out before your first downvote then it will usually not happen. Once you get a few the mob will keep adding them regardless of anything else, afterwards. It’s just dumb mob mentality. I successfully blocked it here but it doesn’t always work. People aren’t smart.