Notices by Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@mastodon.social)

The Bush song Everything Zen came up on YouTube Music, and as I was hitting skip I noticed the cover had a bunch of binary code on it.

"I wonder if anyone has decoded it..."

Uh.. This is somewhat terrifying.
https://mashable.com/article/amazon-sidewalk-surveillance-network-expands/

Taking a distributed system like DNS and collapsing it down to "Google and CloudFlare" is a huge downgrade.

There are certainly other factors to take into account, but "letting two companies handle all DNS" is just a bad idea.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dns-over-https-causes-more-problems-than-it-solves-experts-say/

This rebuttal of all the points in Google's privacy gaslighting post yesterday is a really excellent read.
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/

Props to keybase for attempting to capitalize on Slack's pain.

If your favorite publisher isn't a Brave partner, they have to know to ask for that money, otherwise it just sits in escrow.

If they DO ask for the money, Brave then takes a cut of it as a transaction fee.

Blocking ads is a grey area, but making money while they do it isn't.

Brave hides the ads that publishers put on their site, and then puts THEIR OWN ads in their place.

Brave then pays you to look at those ads (after they take a cut) and you can use that money to pay your favorite publishers back for hiding their ads.
https://gizmodo.com/brave-wants-to-destroy-the-ad-business-by-paying-you-to-1834283860