The joke goes rm -fr, which stands for “remove french”. Yours has double “remove” and is less believable.

Nothing about the app is secret, Google openly advertises it

It’s for E2E encryption in chat apps.

Yeah, so longer than changing a setting, even in your ideal scenario.

But yes, we clearly do. I would spend the first 10 minutes figuring out how to export/import my 80 open browser tabs from one browser to another. And the next 10 copy pasting the URLs one by one manually after deeming it impossible.

It’s not what happened. If the original comment was “I hope people will stop lecturing me about Firefox being great” it would make sense, but it didn’t mention Y, or Firefox, at all.

Even then, your breakdown still doesn’t seem logical to me. Person B can expect people to stop recommending them Y, but they have no reason to expect people will stop criticising X, as nothing changed about X.

My guess is that they got downvoted because their comment makes no sense, while being angry about it.

If people were criticising their usage of Brave, why would they stop now? It makes no sense. Firefox getting worse doesn’t make Brave any better. People who disliked it will still dislike it and people who liked it will still like it.

He is right to be annoyed about getting lectured, but it’s silly to think that this news about a different, unrelated browser has any bearing on it.

It would be hypocritical if they said something is not an issue when Firefox does it, that they criticise Brave about.

What I’m seeing here is everyone is up with pitchforks against Firefox, so looks like they are applying their rules consistently.

“just”? That sounds like way more work than taking 10 seconds to change the setting.

(I don’t disagree with your suggestion, I’m just baffled at the use of “just”)

Yeah, this is all made up clickbait. Google is absolutely collecting your data, but this app has nothing to do with it and uninstalling it accomplishes nothing.

AMD is ideal but Nvidia is fine

Not in all cases. I need GPU passthrough to play VR games in a VM. Only Nvidia cards work for that.

OP already has a Nvidia card and isn’t planning on buying anything. Yes Nvidia is a horrible company, but that doesn’t answer OP’s question. What answers OP’s questions is: Yes, go ahead and try Linux, your Nvidia card is going to work just fine.

OP isn’t asking what card to buy. He already has a Nvidia card and is asking if it’s going to work on Linux.

One could think so, but no cybersecurity experts share such opinion to my knowledge.

If it provided a feature to automatically block incoming dick pics, which Google claims it’s for, was fully local, and only scanned incoming messages, not my own gallery, which is what Google claims, I would likely find it useful. There is nothing wrong with the idea in general.

At the very least it wastes your battery

Again, if it’s an optional feature that you can choose to turn on or off, there is nothing wrong with that.

But your words confuse me. Either it’s not true at all or it happens.

The idea is pretty simple, so it would be surprising if it wasn’t happening at all. But there is a huge difference between “there probably exist some examples that do that” and a sweeping statement about all of them in general.

They removed don’t be evil long time ago

See, this is why I like proof. If you go to Google’s Code of Conduct today, or any other archived version, you can see yourself that it was never removed. Yet everyone believed the clickbait articles claiming so. What happened is they moved it from the header to the footer, clickbait media reported that as “removed” and everyone ran with it, even though anyone can easily see it’s not true, and it takes 30 seconds to verify, not even 5 hours.

Years later you are still repeating something that was made up just because you heard it a lot.

Of course Google is absolutely evil and the phrase was always meaningless whether it’s there or not, but we can’t just make up facts just because it fits our world view. And we have to be aware of confirmation bias. Yeah Google removing “don’t be evil” sounds about right for them, right? It makes perfect sense. But it just plain didn’t happen.

Why suspicious? I have genuinely never read a news story about a virus sending different versions of itself to different OSs. I’m sure it happens, but it doesn’t seem common at all, and you are claiming it very matter-of-factly so I am interested to know more.

Do you have any data to back up that claim? I don’t think that’s true at all, it would be very rare.

Do we have any proof of it doing anything bad?

Taking Google’s description of what it is it seems like a good thing. Of course we should absolutely assume Google is lying and it actually does something nefarious, but we should get some proof before picking up the pitchforks.

And programmers retain complete control of the output - it’s just a bit of text that you can adapt as needed. Same as looking up snippets from Stack Overflow. Programmers are used to finding some snippet, checking if it actually works, and then adapting it to the rest of their code, so if doesn’t feel like introducing media that you didn’t create, but like a faster version of what everyone was already doing.