I don’t know how anyone can trust brave after the shit they pulled. They told us who they are. Believe them.

Yeah I had one trying to start an initiative to add them and when I asked how they know if they’re doing anything he was completely at a loss for words. It is just cargo cult mentality.

It’s literally researchers doing research which the blog links to. Most of the AI booster stuff is completely unsubstantiated, and it turns out when you measure things they are often full of shit.

They found it mostly just increases token spend.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/your-agents-md-file-doesnt-actually-do-anything/

The deal with AI criti-hype is that the back of the card so-to-speak is praise, right?

“The AI broke out and did some hacking (because it’s so powerful)” etc

No. People saying “x is happening” then getting indignant when asked for proof they don’t have and insisting they should be allowed to say “x is happening” anyway is spreading FUD. Just tell the fucking truth? How hard is that? Are you being obtuse on purpose?

It’s not about benefit of the doubt. Fuck these data harvesting companies. What is important, however, is the truth. Making shit up and spreading unjustified FUD is not useful.

Watched the first bit. It mentions at ~10:45 that it is possible and some random internet chatter, which I think can only be construed as heresay as long as no one like these guys are actually replicating it. Is there more later?

“It is possible” is a concern, but people have been saying “it is happening” without any credible evidence or reproduction for years now.

It’s 2 hours long and I haven’t the time to watch something I mostly already know about. Can you provide a timestamp so I can see that specific part?

Link? Last time this came up a reddit thread from someone that had no idea what they were doing and no corroborators was all anyone produced as evidence.

If it was really happening you would have privacy YouTube/bloggers reproducing it instead of an urban legend from reddit, don’t you think?

TVs can seek out open connections

While possible technically, I don’t believe there is any evidence this has happened. Can you provide a reference? Spreading misinformation is counter productive.

Can you provide a reference for this? While technically possible, I don’t think this has actually happened, and spreading misinformation is counter productive.

What is defeatism? Making sure headline-only readers have an accurate understanding of what has happened?

Are they allowed to point at roads if they’re in private parking lot? That is unclear to me

Monday’s order did not affect cameras on private property or on local rights-of-way — where 98% of the surveillance cameras are located

fucking AI bot

I don’t know about the browser, but you can use noai.duckduckgo.com and the AI thing will always be disabled without depending on a cookie or anything

Literally nothing you said has anything to do with anything that OP said or what I replied with.

installing and opening Firefox seems like a time-consuming, very bloated experience.

It takes like 2 minutes to go through the settings and disable things you don’t want.

filled on the homepage

1. Click gear icon
2. Uncheck boxes
3. Enjoy empty homepage

Why are you exaggerating so badly?